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The people will be free and God alone will be their Lord.

Thomas Müntzer

The league at Allstedt wanted to establish this principle, Omnia sunt communia, 'All property should be held in common' and should be distributed to each according to his needs, as the occasion required. Any prince, count, or lord who did not want to do this, after first being warned about it, should be beheaded or hanged.

Thomas Müntzer

The stinking puddle from which usury, thievery and robbery arises is our lords and princes. They make all creatures their property—the fish in the water, the birds in the air, the plant in the earth must all be theirs. Then they proclaim God's commandments among the poor and say, "You shall not steal." They oppress everyone, the poor peasant, the craftsman are skinned and scraped.

Thomas Müntzer

Thomas Müntzer

Thomas Müntzer

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Born: 1489

Died: May 27, 1525 (aged 36)

Bio: Thomas Müntzer was a German preacher and theologian of the early Reformation whose opposition to both Luther and the established Catholic church led to his open defiance of late-feudal authority in central Germany.

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