Ludwig Vogelmann

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Epitaph of Barbara Vogelmann, a daughter of Ludwig Vogelmann in the children's teaching church

Ludwig Vogelmann (* 1478 in Schwäbisch Hall ; † January 9, 1531 in Memmingen ) was a town clerk in the Upper Swabian town of Memmingen and a massive opponent of the Memmingen Reformation .

Life

Ludwig Vogelmann was born in Schwäbisch Hall in 1478. After studying in Heidelberg , he became town clerk in Memmingen in 1508 . An administrative reform in Memmingen goes back to him, which tried to strengthen the city chancellery vis- à- vis the custodians and the mayor . In this position he donated a fresco with a protective cloak Madonna in the children's teaching church, which remained Catholic . When the Reformation began in Memmingen in 1523 , he took the side of the Roman Catholic Church . After the Reformation had found more and more supporters in Memmingen, he resigned from office on April 15, 1524. In August 1524 he asked the city council for permission to live outside the city for three years, which he was granted. Thereupon he wrote to his chamber door in the Antonierhaus, in which he lived for a short time, God victorious, that which I owe me instead of, didn’t stay in it for more than a year. LV accepted a position at the diocese of Augsburg as episcopal secretary. When he spent the night in Memmingen at the turn of the year 1530/1531 with an imperial letter of safe conduct in the Antonite monastery , he was dragged out of the monastery by the Memmingen militia on January 8, 1531 , tortured and executed on the market square the following day . The trial that Vogelmann's descendants then led against the imperial city of Memmingen drew the attention of the entire German Empire . In the end there was an out-of-court settlement between Memmingen and Vogelmann's heirs. The compensation sum of 3,000 guilders was paid to the heirs of the imperial cities of Augsburg, Constance and Lindau, appointed as arbitrators on behalf of the Schmalkaldic Federation.

literature

  • G. Lenckner: The Memmingen town clerk Ludwig Vogelmann . In: Der Hallquell 4 . Schwäbisch Hall 1962, p. 13 ff .
  • Peer Frieß: The Vogelmann Cause. From local conflict to imperial political problem during the Reformation . In: Memminger Geschichtsblätter (2015/16), pp. 73-133

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rotraut Acker: The late medieval wall frescos in the children's teaching church (formerly Antoniuskapelle), in: Memminger Geschichtsblätter (2012/13), pp. 93–119 .
  2. ↑ Barbara Kroemer: Memminger Geschichtsblätter 1980 - The introduction of the Reformation in Memmingen . Ed .: Heimatpflege Memmingen eV 1981, ISSN  0539-2896 .
personal data
SURNAME Vogelmann, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Town clerk in Memmingen in Upper Swabia and opponent of the Memmingen Reformation
DATE OF BIRTH 1478
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Hall
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1531
Place of death Memmingen