Wendel Hipler

Wendel Hipler (Neuenstein, c. 1465 – Heidelberg, 1526[1]) was a German nobleman and revolutionary. Despite his own elite background, Hipler sided with the insurgents during the peasant uprising in Franconia in 1525. Alongside Florian Geyer, he was among a minority of noblemen to remain committed to the peasants' cause.[2]

Hipler was the primary author of the "Heilbronn Manifesto", which was considered by Marxist theorists such as Friedrich Engels to be the "nearest approximation to a bourgeois revolutionary programme" to exist during the Peasants' War.[3] However, the Heilbronn programme was also less radical than the vision of some of the peasant troops, trying to find a compromise between rebels and lords. Its most radical component lay in the intention to deprive monasteries of their sovereign powers. At the same time, it made important concessions to the nobility as it "intended to use ecclesiastical lands to reimburse them for their losses of tithe income, indirect taxes, and transfer fines."[4] Hipler died in Heidelberg in 1526.[1][5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Wendel Hipler - ein Realpolitiker der frühen Neuzeit". Leipzig University. Retrieved 19 March 2026.
  2. ^ Bloch, Ernst (1967). Thomas Münzer als Theologe der Revolution. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag. p. 73.
  3. ^ Heller, Henry (2020). "The Birth of Capitalism in Global Perspective". In Yazdani, Kaveh; Menon, Dilip M. (eds.). Capitalisms: Towards a Global History. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. p. 210. doi:10.1093/oso/9780199499717.003.0008. ISBN 9780199499717.
  4. ^ Blickle, Peter (1981). The Revolution of 1525 : The German Peasants' War from a New Perspective. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 132-133. ISBN 0801824729.
  5. ^ Biographical note contained in the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Volume 10, p. 723.
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