Against the murderous and Reubian gangs of the Bawren

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Against the Mordische and Reubischen Rotten der Bawren is a writing by Martin Luther in connection with the German Peasant Wars , to which he took a position in it.

Luther wrote it in 1525, after the bloodshed in Weinsberg , after he had previously held back from making public statements about the uprisings. In his writing Luther made it clear that the rebellious peasants wrongly invoked him and encouraged the princes to put down the peasants with all necessary force. Literally it says: "You should throw them to pieces, choke them, stab them, secretly and publicly, who can do it, how you have to kill a great dog" .

Even before Luther's appeal, the princes, to whom Luther's word had weight, had increased their military efforts. The defeat of the peasants was foreseeable when his work was published.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b David Liebelt: The religious understanding of rule in Martin Luther. GRIN Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-638-94139-6 , p. 23.

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