# Jakob Hutter burned in Innsbruck (25 February 1536)

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On 25 February 1536 the Anabaptist leader Jakob Hutter, a hatter from the Puster valley, was burned at the stake in front of the Golden Roof in Innsbruck. He had been arrested in Klausen in November 1535 and refused to recant even under torture. Anabaptism, which rejected infant baptism and the authority of the state church, spread quickly among Tyrolean miners and peasants after the revolts of 1525–26. Ferdinand I persecuted it relentlessly; the theologian Balthasar Hubmaier had already been burned in Vienna in 1528, and hundreds of Anabaptists were executed in the Austrian lands. Hutter's followers found refuge in Moravia, where they organised communities sharing all property. Their descendants, the Hutterites, later migrated via Russia to North America.

## Why it matters
Hutter's death symbolises the harsh repression of the radical Reformation in Austria, whose exiled communities survive today as the Hutterites of North America.

Ruler at the Time: [Ferdinand I](https://allhistories.com/austria/rulers/ferdinand-i)

## Sources
- [Wikipedia — Jakob Hutter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Hutter)
- [Wikipedia — Hutterites](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutterites)
- [Wikipedia — Balthasar Hubmaier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balthasar_Hubmaier)
- [Austria-Forum — Hutter (auch Huter), Jakob](https://austria-forum.org/af/AEIOU/Hutter_(auch_Huter)%2C_Jakob)