Karl Ludwig Sand

Karl Ludwig Sand
Karl Ludwig Sand
Born	5 October 1795 Wunsiedel, Upper Franconia, then Prussia
Died	20 May 1820(1820-05-20) (aged 24) Mannheim
Nationality	German
Occupation	University theology student

Karl Ludwig Sand (Wunsiedel, Upper Franconia (then in Prussia), 5 October 1795 – Mannheim, 20 May 1820) was a German university student and member of a liberal Burschenschaft (student association). He was executed in 1820 for the murder of the conservative dramatist August von Kotzebue the previous year in Mannheim. As a result of his execution, Sand became a martyr in the eyes of many German nationalists seeking the creation of a united German national state.