Johann Alois Jehle

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Johann Alois Jehle was state defense colonel and commandant of Braunau during the Bavarian people's uprising in 1705.

Jehle, the son of a shoemaker, was born in the town of Dillingen , which is part of the Augsburg bishopric . He had served in the Bavarian military under Elector Maximilian II Emanuel from a team to an officer position and after the dissolution of the army settled in Braunau am Inn as a grain dealer.

After the occupation of Braunau by insurgent troops on November 28, 1705, the Landesdefension appointed Jehle to commandant of Braunau. Around December 4, 1705, in Braunau, Captain Jehle met the two leaders Matthias Agidius Fuchs and Georg Sebastian Plinganser . On December 18, he convened the State Defense Congress ( Braunau Parliament ) on December 21, 1705 .

Jehle was appointed by the congress as one of the four commanders of the infantry regiments to be set up alongside Lieutenant Colonel von Kilburg, Johann Marian von Leyden and Franz Bernhard von Prielmayr . After the uprising was put down, Jehle was expelled from the state by the imperial administration in Bavaria.

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