Eitelhans Ziegelmüller
Eitelhans Ziegelmüller (* 15th century ; † 16th century ) was a peasant leader in the German Peasants' War .
Life
Little is known about his youth. He was one of four sons of the miller Hermann Ziegelmüller from Teuringen . From his later life it can be assumed that he must have gained strategic experience in his youth as a mercenary.
It was first mentioned in 1510. In that year he became a self-builder of the St. Johann monastery in Constance and received the Oberteuringen mill as a fief.
On February 10, 1525 he was appointed Ammann of the Upper Austrian area "zu and around Ailingen ".
Three to four weeks later he was elected captain of the Bermatinger Haufen , who later joined the Seehaufen (together with the Baltringer Haufen and the Allgäu Haufen they formed the peasant army). As a captain, he continued to play a role in the peasant war.
In the line-up for the decisive battle in front of Weingarten, Eitelhans Ziegelmüller was the decisive strategist of the peasant army. The outcome of the battle was uncertain and prompted George III. von Waldburg (Bauernjörg) to the Treaty of Weingarten . This contract marked the end of the common man's revolution in Upper Swabia, but not the end of Eitelhans Ziegelmüller's career.
In the service of George III. he represented 1529–1530 as a member of the Swabian bailiffs in Innsbruck and Linz. In 1529 he was able to prove his outstanding strategic talent in the fight against the Turks for the emperor in Austria. In 1541 he was promoted to the highest official position under the Upper Austrian provincial governor as Unterlandvogteiverweser.
Eitelhans Ziegelmüller belonged to the rural upper class and, according to the gravestone, died as a knight.
Little is known about his “political attitude” in our sense. It probably corresponds to the Memmingen articles and was probably influenced by the Reformation in Konstanz, which was shaped by the humanist Erasmus from Rotterdam and the reformer Zwingli from Zurich. This can be seen from the fact that he advocated a new landscape order structure in the sense of “divine law”.
Individual evidence
- ^ Digitized from Google Books: Contributions to the history of the peasant war ... (see literature) p. 490 accessed on December 10, 2009
- ^ David Warren Sabean: Land and Society on the Eve of the Peasant War , 1972, ISBN 3-437-50161-5 , pp. 107f.
literature
- Elmar L. Kuhn : The Peasants' War in Upper Swabia , Tübingen: Bibliotheca – Academica – Verl. 2000, (Ed. In connection with Peter Blickle ), ISBN 3-928471-28-7
- Ferdinand Friedrich Oechsle, Johann Gottfried von Pahl: Contributions to the history of the peasant war in the Swabian-Franconian borderlands , Heilbronn 1830
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ziegelmüller, Eitelhans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Leader of the Bermatinger Haufen in the German Peasants' War |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 16th Century |