Saxon peasant uprising of 1790
The Saxon Peasant Uprising (also known as the Electoral Saxon Peasant Uprising ) of 1790 was a military conflict between the nobility and the peasants. The focal points of the uprising were large areas around Dresden , Leipzig and Zwickau .
Course of the uprising
The plague of wildlife caused by the princely interests initially led to unrest in Wehlen , which quickly spread to other offices. However, at the beginning of July these uprisings were brought under control by the Saxon government. However, the previous severe winter of 1789/1790 and the drought year of 1790 exacerbated the potential for conflict. In the summer of 1790, starting from Wechselburg , more and more peasants rose up against the state of Electoral Saxony. One of the best-known spokesmen for the farmers was Christian Benjamin Geißler , also known as the Rebel von Liebstadt . In mid-August, the farmers had brought under their control fifteen patrimonial judicial districts , which covered some 5,000 square kilometers. Areas around Stolpen , Dresden, Radeberg , Dippoldiswalde , the two Lausitzes and Torgau were now affected by the uprisings . The uprisings were unorganized and spontaneous. Services were refused in the Königstein area and in Upper Lusatia. There were locksmith storms and the disarming of Saxon military units by farmers. On August 23, around 2000 farmers armed with flails , clubs and axes forced the release of imprisoned rebels in Meissen . The main demands of the peasants were the abolition of the hunting privileges , abolition of forced labor , prohibition of conversion of payments in kind into money -interest by Mr. Saxon or offices. First of all, the peasants succeeded in getting the feudal lords to give up all services, labor and interest. Some feudal lords were driven out by their peasants. A massive military operation finally put down the uprising in September 1790. Of the up to 200 people arrested, 34 were arrested at Königstein Fortress and released at the end of October 1791.
literature
- Siegfried Hoyer : The ideas of the French Revolution and the Electoral Saxon peasant uprising in 1790. In: New archive for Saxon history . 65th volume, 1994, pp. 61-76 ( PDF; 95 kB ).
- Christian Richter: The Saxon peasant uprising of 1790 as reflected in the Marxist-Leninist historiography of the GDR. Grin Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-640-24667-0 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2010090118278 (additional: thesis, TU Dresden, 2008).
- Daniel Jacob: Elector Friedrich August the Just and the Saxon Peasant Uprising of 1790. Grin Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-656-66187-0 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-20140605356 (Zugl . : Hauptseminararbeit , TU Dresden , 2004).
- Michael Wagner: The Saxon Peasant Uprising and the French Revolution in the Perception of Contemporaries. In: History and Society . Special issue, Volume 12: Social unrest in Germany during the French Revolution. Göttingen 1988, ISSN 0944-2014 , pp. 149-165, JSTOR 40194811 .
- Karlheinz Blaschke : The Saxon peasant uprising 1790 (= Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig . Philological-Historical Class [Hrsg.]: Treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class. Vol. 67, no. 4). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1978, DNB 790143704 .
Web links
- anonymous : Shouting out to some of his confreres by a Saxon farmer. o. O. 1790, urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-db-id3084394494
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Franz Anton Lubojatzky: Centennial Chronicle or The fate of the Saxon people since 1750 to 1850. A memorial book for the family circle of all classes of people in Saxony land. Fred Rühle, Dresden 1853, OCLC 724001018 , p. 77–80, color lithograph : p. 78/79 (in Lubojatzky's text only as “peasant revolt” and “peasant uprising”; scan in Google book search; in Fraktur ).
- ^ Sächsischer Bauernaufstand 1790. In: bauernkriege.de, accessed on January 27, 2018.