Georg Haan

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Georg Haan (* unknown; † July 14, 1628 in Bamberg ) was Chancellor in the Bamberg Monastery and became a victim of the witch trials together with some of his family members .

Life and witch trial

Born in Bamberg, Georg Haan was the highest secular personality in the city of Bamberg at the time. He was married to Katharina Haan and had several children with her. Georg Haan traveled to the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer in December 1627 in order to obtain a letter of protection for his wife because of her impending denunciation by the witch commissioner Harsee. Shortly after he left, Katharina was arrested on December 29, 1627. After repeated torture, she was found guilty on January 19, 1628 and probably beheaded on January 24, then cremated her body. The same fate befell his daughter Katharina a short time later. When Georg Haan returned to Bamberg on February 10th, both were no longer alive. Nevertheless, he continued to serve the Bamberg Prince-Bishop Johann Georg II. Fuchs von Dornheim until May 1628 .

For Georg Haan, the situation in Bamberg became increasingly difficult. An attempt at rescue by the Elector of Bavaria , who planned to take him into his service and send him to Amberg , was thwarted by the Prince-Bishop. In May 1628 Georg Haan himself was arrested as a witcher and tortured. The confession was ultimately blackmailed in a particularly perfidious way : He was read that his own son, Georg Adam, had accused him of being a witcher when questioned. Georg Haan confessed in complete despair. It was in the early morning of July 14, 1628 Old Court in Bamberg executed .

Georg Haan stipulated in his will that his property should go to his children and to people to whom he owed something. The church came out empty.

A year later, his youngest daughter Ursula Maria and his son Georg Adam were arrested and also cremated. Only his last three sons Carl, Leonhard and Daniel survived the witchcraft and received help from the Dominican convent Heilig Grab in Bamberg.

The witch hunt in Bamberg fell between 1612 and 1631 under the government of the Prince-Bishops Johann Gottfried I von Aschhausen and Johann Georg II Fuchs von Dornheim about 1000 people.

See also

literature

  • Andrea Renczes: How do you wipe out a family? An analysis of the Bamberg witch trials. Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1990, ISBN 3-89085-447-8 .
  • Britta Gehm: The witch hunt in the Bamberg monastery and the intervention of the Reichshofrat to end it (=  legal history and civilization process . No. 3 ). 2nd revised edition. Olms, Hildesheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-487-14731-4 , p. 214-243 .

Web links

Sources, comments, individual references

  1. ↑ Andrea Renczes: How do you delete a family? An analysis of the Bamberg witch trials. Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1990, ISBN 3-89085-447-8 , p. 76.
  2. ↑ Andrea Renczes: How do you delete a family? An analysis of the Bamberg witch trials. Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1990, ISBN 3-89085-447-8 , p. 97.
personal data
SURNAME Haan, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chancellor in the bishopric of Bamberg, executed as a witcher
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century or 17th century
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1628
Place of death Bamberg