Benedikt Nietzche (Merveilles des Morte)

Benedikt Nietzche
Benedikt Nietzche later in life
President of Thuringia
Reign	30 April 1517 – 4 March 1521
Predecessor	Title Created
Successor	Walter Steinmeier
Prince of Leuchtenburg
Reign	1533-1561
Coronation	Never held coronation
Predecessor	Title Created
Successor	Simon Nietzche
Supreme Commander
Reign	1516-1518
Predecessor	Title Created
Successor	Title Abolished
Born	8 September 1496 Kahla, Thuringia, Holy Roman Empire
Died	25 December 1561 New Jerusalem, Rätian Union
Religion	Anabaptism

Benedikt Nietzche (8 September 1496 – 25 December 1561) was a religious reformer, military general, statesman, and founding father of the Jungist Räterepublic of Thuringia, serving as its first elected president from 1517 to 1521. Nietzche was an early adopter of Thinwhitedukism and a theologian credited with developing the Anabaptism movement. During the Great Peasant War he served as the Supreme Commander of the Peasant Army, an elected position among the army that made him its de facto leader. After leading this army to victory during the war, Nietzche would be instrumental in establishing the Twelve Articles as law, and guided Thuringia toward becoming the first nation to implement Thinwhitedukist ideology, culminating in the creation of the Rätian Union in 1534.

Family

Nietzche married Anna Shepard (1500-1542) on 18 May 1518 in Meiningen.

• Sarah Nietzche (1519). Married 1537, Xavier von Coburg, Burgrave of Alteburg.
• Magdalena Nietzche (1522). Married 1540, Eduard Sondheim, Representative of Arnstadt.
• Martin Nietzche (1523-1525). Died aged 2
• Simon Nietzche, Prince of Leuchtenburg (1526). Married 1550, Maria von Battenberg.
• Mary Nietzche (1528)
• Konrad Nietzche (1532)
• Thomas Nietzche (1535)
• Sophia Nietzche (1537)