# Luther publishes Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants

Date: 1525

## The fact

In May 1525 Wider die räuberischen und mörderischen Rotten der Bauern called on princes to 'smite, slay, and stab' the peasant bands. It is a completed wartime pamphlet, after his earlier Admonition to Peace.

## Context

Thomas Müntzer and the Thuringian bands; Frankenhausen is 15 May 1525. [Luther](/people/martin-luther) had first urged both sides to peace, then turned. Princes did the killing. He supplied theological cover in print.

## Evidence and sources

The 1525 text is in CCEL/Gutenberg. Battle dates are chronicle facts. Together they establish the pamphlet in a killing season. Wikipedia is not used as a causal source.

## Significance

The sharpest worsening path: a reformer licensing princely slaughter of rural rebels who had cited gospel liberty.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1525 pamphlet and its kill-language. Not established: that Luther commanded troops. Confidence high on the text, high that princes needed little urging.

The event remains dated 1525-05-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He wrote the pamphlet urging princes to smite the peasant bands during the 1525 war. The welfare reading is worsening, through [food-supply-resilience](/drivers/food-supply-resilience), FDI weakening at weight 0.6 direction -1. Printed instruction to kill peasant rebels in an agrarian rising is a food-and-life harm path, after gospel liberty language had been heard as licence. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1525-05-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He wrote the pamphlet urging princes to smite the peasant bands during the 1525 war. The welfare reading is worsening, through food-supply-resilience, FDI weakening at weight 0.6 direction -1. Printed instruction to kill peasant rebels in an agrarian rising is a food-and-life harm path, after gospel liberty language had been heard as licence. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1525-05-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He wrote the pamphlet urging princes to smite the peasant bands during the 1525 war. The welfare reading is worsening, through food-supply-resilience, FDI weakening at weight 0.6 direction -1. Printed instruction to kill peasant rebels in an agrarian rising is a food-and-life harm path, after gospel liberty language had been heard as licence. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1525-05-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He wrote the pamphlet urging princes to smite the peasant bands during the 1525 war. The welfare reading is worsening, through food-supply-resilience, FDI weakening at weight 0.6 direction -1. Printed instruction to kill peasant rebels in an agrarian rising is a food-and-life harm path, after gospel liberty language had been heard as licence. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1525-05-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He wrote the pamphlet urging princes to smite the peasant bands during the 1525 war. The welfare reading is worsening, through food-supply-resilience, FDI weakening at weight 0.6 direction -1. Printed instruction to kill peasant rebels in an agrarian rising is a food-and-life harm path, after gospel liberty language had been heard as licence. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1525-05-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He wrote the pamphlet urging princes to smite the peasant bands during the 1525 war. The welfare reading is worsening, through food-supply-resilience, FDI weakening at weight 0.6 direction -1. Printed instruction to kill peasant rebels in an agrarian rising is a food-and-life harm path, after gospel liberty language had been heard as licence. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1525-05-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He wrote the pamphlet urging princes to smite the peasant bands during the 1525 war. The welfare reading is worsening, through food-supply-resilience, FDI weakening at weight 0.6 direction -1. Printed instruction to kill peasant rebels in an agrarian rising is a food-and-life harm path, after gospel liberty language had been heard as licence. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

The event remains dated 1525-05-01. Martin Luther's documented role is: He wrote the pamphlet urging princes to smite the peasant bands during the 1525 war. The welfare reading is worsening, through food-supply-resilience, FDI weakening at weight 0.6 direction -1. Printed instruction to kill peasant rebels in an agrarian rising is a food-and-life harm path, after gospel liberty language had been heard as licence. Later Lutheran churches, later princes, and later national myth are not this event. The URLs named above are locators for this Fact only.

## People

- Martin Luther: https://factrail.ai/people/martin-luther

## Drivers

- Food-Supply Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/food-supply-resilience
- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/137
- https://ccel.org/ccel/luther

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/luther-against-peasants-1525