Florian von Miller

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Florian Sigmund Maximilian Ritter Miller von Altammerthal and Fronhofen (* 1668 ; † unknown) was the pastor of Oberviechtach during the Bavarian popular uprising in 1705 .

Life

Florian von Miller came from a middle-class civil servant family in the Upper Palatinate. His father, Dr. utr. Iur. Johann Jakob Miller, had made it up to the government chancellor in Amberg and in 1660 was raised to the hereditary knighthood with the title "Ritter Miller Edler von Altammerthal und Fronhofen ". In contrast to the Upper Palatinate aristocracy, which had mostly been impoverished since the Thirty Years' War, the family was quite wealthy.

Pastor Florian von Miller had taken over the leadership of an uprising in December 1705 in the Upper Palatinate and in the Bavarian Forest and on December 31, 1705 conquered the city of Cham . Matthias Aegidius Fuchs met him a few days before December 4, 1705 and apparently discussed the plan of the uprising with him. According to Christian Probst, Pastor von Miller traveled to Vilshofen on December 4th and established connections with the Braunau parliament in Braunau am Inn .

On January 17, 1706, the popular uprising was suppressed by militants , hussars and regular Austrian troops and Florian von Miller was arrested. First he was brought to Straubing and brought to Wörth an der Donau on March 12, 1706 to be imprisoned in the prison tower of Wörth Castle . When the verdict was announced in the middle of 1707 and he was sentenced to imprisonment for an indefinite period, a new prison facility was built on the fourth floor, in the former “Ritterstüberl” of the castle. Miller was held there until October 15, 1714. He was then released from there; nothing more is known about his further fate.

literature

  • Christian Probst : Better to die Bavarian. The Bavarian popular uprising in 1705 and 1706. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7991-5970-3 .
  • Fritz Jörgl: Pastor Miller from Oberviechtach is captured. In: Fritz Jörgl: Small Wörther Folklore. Volume 2: "hereant and dreant". Oberpfalzverlag Laßleben, Kallmünz 2013, ISBN 978-3-7847-1226-0 , pp. 19-24.

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personal data
SURNAME Miller, Florian from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miller von Altammerthal and Fronhofen, Florian Sigmund Maximilian Ritter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor
DATE OF BIRTH 1668
DATE OF DEATH after 1705