Anna Ladurner Hofer

Anna Ladurner Hofer (born July 27, 1765 in Algund ; † December 6, 1836 in St. Leonhard in Passeier ) was the wife of the Tyrolean freedom fighter and folk hero Andreas Hofer .

Life

Anna Ladurner was born the fourth of eleven children to farmer Peter Ladurner and his wife Maria Tschölin. On July 21, 1789, she married Andreas Nikolaus Hofer, a horse and wine owner. Anna was 24 and Andreas 21 years old. A year later, Andreas Hofer took over the heavily indebted Gasthaus am Sandhof in St. Leonhard in Passeier , his parents' inheritance. Anna was the landlady who took over all the tasks in the inn, tilled the farm's own fields and took care of the growing number of children when her husband was on the road as a fighter for Tyrol. She could hardly read or write herself, but she also wanted her daughters to have a good education.

Hofer defeated the French and the Bavarians several times in 1809 as the Tyrolean leader. Then, however , Emperor Franz I signed the Treaty of Schönbrunn in which he renounced Tyrol. The Tyroleans lost in a final battle; a premium was offered to Hofer and other leaders. Hofer was betrayed and found and arrested on the Pfandleralm in January 1810. He was sentenced to death by shooting by Napoleon and executed on February 20, 1810.

Anna spent the time of the fighting in 1809 on the Sandhof and continued to run the inn. After the last battle, however, she accompanied her husband to the Pfandleralm. Their four daughters were housed with friends, their son was also on the mountain pasture when they were arrested on January 27, 1810 and brought to Merano. Anna and son Johann were released and could return to the Sandhof. Johann had to have his frozen feet treated in a military hospital.

The financial situation of Anna and her children was hopeless after Andreas Hofer's death, bankruptcy proceedings were initiated, so Anna traveled to Vienna a short time later to go to the Kaiser and ask for help. She attracted attention in Vienna as a Tyrolean with her traditional Passeir costume and was able to get an audience with Emperor Franz I, where she demanded financial compensation for the death of her husband. After tough negotiations, in the third audience on September 2, 1810, she received 2000 guilders in bank notes, 800 guilders in cash and 500 guilders a year for her and 200 for each daughter. She received the nobility diploma promised by the emperor in 1818 when Napoleon was defeated.

family

Anna came from a respected family of wine and fruit growers. Anna, like her husband, was very pious.

How Anna met her future husband is not known. The second recorded event in Anna's life after her baptism was her marriage on July 21, 1789. After three years, a daughter, Maria Gertraud, was born but quickly died. This is followed by a son, Johann Stephan, and five daughters, Maria Kreszenz, Rosa Anna, Anna Gertraud, Gertraud Juliana and, as the last, in 1808, Kreszenz Margareth, who, however, also dies in infancy.
Anna lived on the Sandhof until the end of her life, where many tourists and followers of her husband visited and honored her. In a few years before her own death in 1836, all of her four daughters died. Her last male descendant, Leopold von Hofer, died childless in 1921. However, there are a variety of offspring from their four adult daughters.

literature

Jeannine Meighörner, fortitude. The life of Anna Hofer . Innsbruck 2009.

Web links

• Astrid Kofler, Anna Ladurner Hofer . [1] (accessed January 13, 2019)
• Helga Reichart , Anna Hofer, the forgotten woman. [2] (accessed January 13, 2019)
• Birgit Hit, Der Tiroler Freiheitskampf 1809 with special consideration of women at this time . Vienna 2012. [3] (accessed on January 13, 2019)
• Winfried Hofinger, Andreas Hofer - offspring like sand on the sea. 2009. [4] (accessed January 13, 2019)
• Contemporary documents. Historical lexicon, Hofer Anna, geb. Ladurner. [5] (accessed January 13, 2019)
• Anna Maria Achenrainer, Anna Ladurner. 1964. [6] (accessed January 13, 2019)
• Napoleon era: Anna von Hofer. [7] (accessed January 13, 2019)
• Anna Ladurner tells. Museum Passeier. [8] (accessed January 18, 2019)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birgit hits: The Tyrolean freedom fight of 1809 with special consideration of women at that time. 2012, pp. 21–24 .  
2. ↑ Birgit Treffen: The Tyrolean freedom struggle 1809 with special consideration of women at this time. 2012 .  
3. ^ Astrid Kofler: Anna Ladurner Hofer. .  
4. ^ Astrid Kofler: Anna Ladurner Hofer.  
5. ↑ Winfried Hofinger: Andreas Hofer - descendants like sand on the sea. .