Hans Jakob Willi

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Memorial plaque in Horgen

Hans Jakob Willi , also Johann Jakob Willi , (born April 19, 1772 in Horgen , † April 25, 1804 in Zurich ) was the leader of the rebels in the buck war in 1804.

Life

Hans Jakob Willi was born in Horgen as the son of the shoemaker Johann Jakob Willi and his wife Anna Maria Leuthold.

After completing his shoemaking apprenticeship in his father's workshop, Willi started working as a traveler in Spanish and French services at the age of 15 . After escaping from British captivity, he returned to Horgen in 1801. On March 28, 1803 he married Anna Anton von Horgen.

The mediation constitution of 1803 shifted the balance of power in favor of the city of Zurich . Willi, who was experienced in the war, became the leader of the rebels in the countryside. The battles were named Bockenkrieg after the Bocken inn in Arn bei Horgen. Three warships were used to bombard Horgen on Lake Zurich . The rebels won the battle, but Willi had to retire injured. The uprising now collapsed very quickly.

After the battle at the Bocken, Hans Jakob Willi stayed in hiding until he was caught in Stäfa after seven days . An unconstitutional court martial condemned him despite the intervention of Napoleon Bonaparte . On April 25, 1804 at 2 p.m. he was executed along with two co-defendants.

“We are free Swiss, citizens with equal rights throughout. If our government does not want to hear the voice of the people, it is tyrannical. "

- Hans Jakob Willi

literature

  • Johann Jakob Leuthy: Complete history of the Bocken War in 1804: edited from authentic sources and provided with biographical notes of the leaders of this uprising [Hans Jakob] Willi, [Heinrich] Häberling, [Jakob] Schneebeli, [Jakob] Kleinert, [Johann Felix] Schoch, [Hans Ulrich] Grob, [Hans Jakob] Hanhart, [Hans Caspar] Syz and [Conrad] Hauser: a contribution to the stories of the Swiss country for the Swiss people . JJ Leuthy, Zurich 1838, p. 304 .
  • Erich Sutter: No rescue possible Th.-Gut-Verlag, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-85717-220-5 .
  • Hans R. Fuhrer u. a .: The buck war 1804. Uprising of the Zurich rural people. (Hands-on military history 17). Military Academy at ETH Zurich, 2004.
  • Albert Hauser: The buck war. An uprising by the rural people of Zurich in 1804 . Dissertation, Zurich 1938.
  • JJ Schneebeli: The Buck War 1804 . Stäfa 1904.
  • Paul Kläui: History of the community of Horgen . Horgen 1952.
  • Joseph Jung (Ed.): The buck war 1804. Aspects of a popular uprising . Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-03823-103-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Sutter: He paid his fight against Zurich with his life , in the Zürichsee-Zeitung district of Horgen from November 13, 2013 online PDF ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Willi, Hans Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Willi, Johann Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss leader of the insurgents in the buck war 1804
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Horgen
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1804
Place of death Zurich