Landesdefension

The country Defension was the beginning of the early modern period in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation which of the various rulers up botene to defend the territory bourgeois and peasant army (see. Also militia , wehrbauer ). In contrast to the standing army , the state defense was generally not used for offensive military purposes.

The Landlibell Maximilian I in 1511 for Tyrol stipulated, for example, in agreement with the Tyrolean Estates that stands in defense of the country had to perform military service. In return, the contingent and the Landsturm only had to perform this service within the borders of Tyrol. In some cases, the state defenses were also active independently. In 1705/06 the Bavarian state defense rose against the Habsburg occupying power in a bloodily suppressed uprising, the Bavarian popular uprising . The Tyrolean Landesdefension rose against Bavaria and France under Andreas Hofer . The uprising ended on November 1st, 1809 with the defeat of the Tyroleans on Bergisel .

The mountain riflemen and the Tyrolean riflemen are in the tradition of the state defenses of Bavaria and Tyrol .

literature

• Helmut Schnitter: People and national defense : people's mobilization, defense works, land militias in the German territories from the 15th to the 18th century. Military publisher of the German Democratic Republic, 1977.
• Winfried Schulze: The German state defenses in the 16th and 17th centuries PDF, 1.9 MB .