Amand Geogg (1820–1897) was a journalist and a democrat. In 1849, he was a major organizer during the Baden Revolution of 1848-1849. He then served as Finance Minister in Baden's provisional revolutionary government under Lorenzo Brentano. After the revolution was crushed, Geogg fled to the United States for a time. He moved around further, before eventually returning to Germany in 1861 after former revolutionaries were granted amnistey.
Geogg was a member of the First International, and in the 1870s he joined the German Social Democratic Party. Amand Geogg died in 1897.Biographical note contained in the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Volume 10 (International Publishers: New York, 1978) p. 721.
Goegg was married to the Swiss feminist Marie Goegg-Pouchoulin.
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