Hans Jakob Woe

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Hans Jakob Wehe († April 5, 1525 near Leipheim ) was a preacher and peasant leader.

Live and act

Hans Jakob Wehe, a cousin of the reformer Johann Eberlin von Günzburg , preached the New Evangelical doctrine around Leipheim in 1524 . At the request of the bishop of Augsburg , the city council of Ulm expelled him from Leipheim and the bishop banned him.

When peasant unrest broke out in this area in 1525 , Wehe was accused of instigating it, and on March 3, 1525, the Ulm city council decided to arrest him. In the course of the same month a large group of farmers gathered in and around Leipheim , the Leipheimer Haufen , who plundered the manorial estates in the area, with Woe being given the task of building a war chest from the looted. The farmers attacked the Bühler Schloss, Attenhofen , Weißenhorn and on April 1, 1525 the Roggenburg Abbey . At the beginning of April the rebels returned to Leipheim and took the city of Günzburg .

However, since the army of the opposing Swabian League moved nearby, Woe made connections with distant peasant groups. After the peasants lost battles with the Bund, the same retreated to Leipheim and Günzburg. It is uncertain, however, whether Woe was present in these fights. In any case, he took part in the defense of Leipheim. When the city surrendered, Woe fled, but was soon discovered and is said to have tried to buy his freedom, which failed. On April 5, 1525, Wehe and 7 other peasant leaders were sentenced to death by a council of war and executed on the same day in a neighboring field near the village of Bubesheim .

literature

  • Wilhelm Zimmermann : The great German peasant war . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-320-01261-4 (unchanged reprint of the Stuttgart 1891 edition).
  • Maximilian Radlkofer: Johann Eberlin von Günzburg and his cousin Hans Jakob Wehe von Leipheim. at the same time with an overview of the peasant movement in Upper Swabia in February and March 1525 up to the outbreak of war and a history of the Leipheimer Haufen . Beck Verlag, Nördlingen 1887.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see literature Maximilian Radlkofer
personal data
SURNAME Alas, Hans Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alas, Hans Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Preacher and peasant leader
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1525
Place of death at Leipheim