Hans von Hutten
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Hans von Hutten (* 1477 at Trimberg Castle near Elfershausen , Lower Franconia ; † May 8, 1515 in the Böblinger Forest ) was the stable master of Duke Ulrich von Württemberg and was murdered by him.
Life
Hans von Hutten's parents were Ludwig von Hutten and his wife Margarethe Speth von Zwiefalten. As a court official in the Württemberg service, Hans von Hutten initially maintained a friendly relationship with the younger Duke Ulrich. But in 1514 Hutten's marriage to Ursula Thumb von Neuburg , Ulrich's secret lover, led to a break: the husband refused the duke's request to give him a free hand with his wife and, contrary to his promise, made the relationship public. On May 6, 1515 he asked for his release. The high-handed duke, who accused his stable-master of treason, pretended to be reconciled with him and invited him to hunt in the Schönbuch . Hutten ignored the warnings and fell into the trap. Ulrich, armed with armor , sent his men ahead and killed the only lightly armed Hutten with his own hand.
The deed was subsequently camouflaged as a remote act , which, however, did not deceive the Reich public. As a result of this incident, 18 counts and nobles broke away from the duke. His wife Sabina also took this as an opportunity to separate from her husband. The von Hutten family filed a lawsuit with the emperor and prepared a large-scale feud at the same time . In fact, Ulrich succumbed to imperial ban in 1516 - but probably more because of disputes over property with the Swabian Federation . Propaganda by the poet Ulrich von Hutten , a cousin of the murdered man , accompanied the trial and the war campaign that followed, which ended with the Duke's expulsion . Ulrich von Hutten wrote and published a total of five diatribes as well as the dialogue Phalarism , in which the duke appears as a docile pupil of the ancient tyrant Phalaris .
Duke Ulrich accused some Württemberg bailiffs of high treason, because they should have turned to Emperor Maximilian I after his bloody deed . He had the Vogt von Tübingen, Konrad Breuning , the more than seventy-year-old Vogt von Cannstatt, Konrad Vaut , the Vogt von Weinsberg and the brother of Tübingen, Sebastian Breuning , and the mayor of Stuttgart, Hans Stickel , arrested in November 1516 and on the Hohenasperg hold captive. After excruciating torture and brief negotiations, the three bailiffs were sentenced to death, only Hans Stickel escaped with his life.
literature
- Georg-Wilhelm Hanna : Maenad, Maleficent and Loss of Power. Duke Ulrich von Württemberg and Hans von Hutten; political consequences of a murder case . History and Culture Association Köngen, Köngen 2003.
- Gustav Radbruch, Heinrich Gwinner: History of the crime . Koehler, Stuttgart 1951 (new edition from 1991 under ISBN 3-8218-4415-9 ).
- Markus T. Mall: Murder in Swabia - Real cases and their backgrounds from the Middle Ages to the present . Silberburg-Verlag , Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-87407-701-2 .
Web links
- Duke Ulrich von Württemberg - The murder in the Böblingen Forest
- Wilhelm Hauff's poem Hans Hutten's End (at Wikisource)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rose Wagner: Mosaik, special publications of the Martinszeller Verband No. 17 , Stuttgart 2002, pp. 38–43.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hutten, Hans von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Württemberg stable master of Duke Ulrich von Württemberg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1477 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trimberg Castle near Elfershausen , Lower Franconia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1515 |
| Place of death | Böblinger Forest |