!!!Fadinger, Stephan

b. Praz (Upper Austria), around 1580, 
d. Ebelsberg near Linz (Upper Austria, killed in action), July 5, 
1626, captain during the peasant war in Upper Austria in 1626 ( 
Peasants' Revolts) against the Bavarian policy of exploitation and of 
seizure of peasants' property; brother-in-law of Christoph  Zeller. 
For a short time established a powerful organisation of rebellious 
peasants and also fought against the Counter Reformation. After his 
death the peasants did not gain any further important victories and 
were soon defeated.

!Literature
Der oberoesterreichische Bauernkrieg 1626, exhibition 
catalogue, Linz 1976.



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