Veronika Albrecht

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Veronika Albrecht , also Veronika Gross-Albrecht (* around 1500 in Waldshut ; † after 1528), was a seamstress and a protagonist of the early Anabaptist movement .

Life

Veronika, Veronica or Verena Albrecht was born in Waldshut around 1500. According to her own statements during her interrogation in Augsburg , she was baptized in Waldshut by Wilhelm Reublin in April 1525 . In the short interlude of the Waldshut Anabaptist movement until the end of 1525, women played a major role. Veronika Albrecht became involved with the Anabaptist preacher and furrier Jakob Gross and followed him and Ulrich Teck , an Baptist friend with him, into exile in mid-1525. Veronika Albrecht and Jakob Groß are recorded in the Grüningen office in August 1525 , where, according to the sources, they persuaded 38 people to accept Anabaptism. Veronika Albrecht's contribution is to be valued highly. Further missionary activities are documented for Zofingen , Brittnau and Aarau . After being expelled from Switzerland, the couple turned to Lahr and Strasbourg in 1526 . Veronika Albrecht is not mentioned in the Strasbourg interrogation protocols.

From Strasbourg, Veronika Albrecht and Jakob Gross moved on to Augsburg, where they arrived in late autumn 1526. Jakob Gross took over the leadership of the Anabaptist congregation, which was vacant when Denck left, and began successful missionary work. In September 1527, after a meeting in the house of the weaver Gall Fischer, together with Hans Hut and around 60 other people , Jakob Gross was arrested and taken to the Augsburg prison. Veronika Groß supported her husband by selling books he owned and took up a job as a seamstress. In April 1528, Veronika Albrecht, who had found accommodation in the Gögginger house of Eitelhans Langenmantel, was arrested in Augsburg and subjected to interrogation. She was flogged from the city on April 30, 1528 for her steadfast demeanor and refusal to withdraw. Their whereabouts are not known. Veronika Albrecht belonged to the first generation of female Anabaptists.

Christening succession

The line of christening succession goes back to Veronika Albrecht (April 1525) via Wilhelm Reublin (January 1525), Jörg Blaurock (January 1525) to Konrad Grebel (January 1525). The dates in brackets indicate the respective baptism date. Evidence of this can be found in the biography articles of the persons mentioned.

literature

  • Christian Hege, Christian Neff: Mennonite Lexicon . Frankfurt, Weierhof 1913-1967, Volume II, pp. 187-188.
  • Hans Guderian: The Anabaptists in Augsburg. Their history and their legacy. A contribution to the 200th anniversary of the city of Augsburg , Pfaffenhofen 1984, ISBN 3-7787-2063-5 .
  • Marlies Mattern: Life on the sidelines: women and men in Anabaptism (1525-1550): a study on everyday history, Peter Lang, 1998, p. 98

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profiles of Anabaptist women: sixteenth-century reforming pioneers By C. Arnold Snyder, Linda Agnès, edited by Huebert Hecht, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, 1996, p. 94
  2. ↑ Paul Peachey: The Social Origin of the Swiss Anabaptists in the Reformation Period, Zurich., 1954, pp. 38 and 111
  3. ↑ Hans Guderian, p. 37
  4. ↑ Profiles of Anabaptist women: sixteenth-century reforming pioneers By C. Arnold Snyder, Linda Agnès, edited by Huebert Hecht, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, 1996, p. 94
personal data
SURNAME Albrecht, Veronika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albrecht, Verena; Gross-Albrecht, Veronika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German protagonist of Anabaptism
DATE OF BIRTH around 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldshut
DATE OF DEATH after 1528