Posted on 04/19/2024 9:01:59 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1374, mayor Tile von Damm was beheaded by rebel populares in his home city of Braunschweig (Brunswick).
One of northern Europe’s great Hanseatic merchant cities, Braunschweig enjoyed a rich history of civic unrest — the Braunschweiger Schichten. (Literally shift, but also carrying the sense of rebellion.)
The Great Rebellion in Braunschweig, by Alfred von Schüssler (mid-19th century). One of its most outstanding installments — the one recalled as the Große Schicht — kicked off on April 17, 1374. (Most of the information about this incident is in German, as are most of the links in this post.) On that evening, a meeting of the ruling council of merchant magnates with its guild chiefs on how to deal with Braunschweig’s crippling debt turned tetchy and spilled into a popular protest. Within hours, as a chronicler would later put it, the devil was set loose in Braunschweig.
Guild protests carried to the “House of the Seven Towers” where Tile von Damm(e) resplended in the manner fitting the city’s mayor and its wealthiest patrician. That house still exists to this day, but the mayor’s thread was measured in mere hours: he was soon hauled out and beheaded on the Hagenmarkt....
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Braunschweig?
What was he?
CHOPPED LIVER?...............
Interesting that England had the Peasants' Revolt led by Wat Tyler in 1381. I imagine some of this unrest came from after effects of the Black Death which started in 1348 and had resurgences for the next 50-60 years.
Babyface Braunschweiger was the alias of Boris Badenov, the notorious spy from Pottsylvania in the Bullwinkle cartoons.
“CHOPPED LIVER?”
HAHA, I say that all the time! Even got the grandkids saying now: what am I, chopped liver?
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