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JURGEN WULLENWEBER (c. 1492—1537)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 855 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JURGEN

WULLENWEBER (c. 1492—1537)  , burgomaster of
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Lubeck, was born probably at
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Hamburg . Settling in Lubeck as a merchant he took some
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part in the risings of the inhabitants 111 1530 and 1531, being strongly in sympathy with the democratic ideas in religion and politics which inspired them . Having joined the governing council of the city and become leader of the democratic party, he was appointed burgomaster early in 1533 and threw himself into the
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movement for restoring Lubeck to her former position of influence . Preparations were made to attack the Dutch towns, the
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principal trading rivals of Lubeck, when the
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death of Frederick I., king of Denmark, in
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April 1533 changed the position of affairs . The Liibeckers objected to the bestowal of the Danish
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crown upon any prince favourable to the
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Empire or the
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Roman religion, and Wullenweber went to Copenhagen to discuss the
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matter . At length an
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alliance was concluded with Henry VIII. of England; considerable support was obtained in N . Germany; and in 1534 an attack was made on Christian, duke of Holstein, afterwards King Christian III., who claimed the
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throne . At first the Lubeckers gained several successes, but Christian of Holstein appeared before Lubeck; the efforts of Wullenweber to secure allies failed; and the citizens were compelled to make peace . The imperial court of justice at Spires restored the old constitution, and in August 1535 the aristocratic party returned to power . Soon afterwards Wullenweber was seized by Christopher, archbishop of
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Bremen, and handed over to his
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brother Henry II., duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbiittel . Having been tortured and sentenced to death as a traitor and an Anabaptist, he was beheaded at
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Wolfenbuttel on the 29th of September 1537 . Wullenweber, who was long regarded as a popular hero in Lubeck, inspired tragedies by Heinrich Kruse and Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow, and a novel by Ludwig Kohler .

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Waitz, Lubeck unter Jurgen Wullenweber and die europdische Politik (Berlin, 1855-1856) .

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