August Sabac el Cher
{{Short description|19th-century Afro-German court official}}
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August Sabac el Cher was an early Afro-German official at the court of Prussia.
Life
August, though not yet named that, was given to Prince Albert of Prussia as a boy in 1843{{cite web|url=http://blackgermans.us/new/page/25/ |title=Black German Heritage & Research Association - Part 25 |publisher=Blackgermans.us |date= |accessdate=2013-09-06}} when the Prince was in Egypt. He eventually became a Prussian citizen and married a white woman.{{cite web|url=http://www.best.uni-mainz.de/modules/AMS/article.php?storyid=138 |title=Black European Studies |publisher=Best.uni-mainz.de |date= |accessdate=2013-09-06}}
His son Gustav Sabac el Cher became a respected soldier and an imperial bandmaster.{{cite web|last=Author |first=Berghahn |url=http://berghahnbooks.com/blog/remembering-african-german-points-of-contact |title=Germany and the Black Diaspora, edited by Martin Klimke, Mischa Honeck, and Anne Kuhlmann |publisher=Berghahnbooks.com |date=2013-08-09 |accessdate=2013-09-06}}
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