Wendel Hipler was born in Neuenstein in 1465. As a

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, Hipler, nonetheless, sided with the insurgents during the

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in 1525, Hipler was the primary author of the "Heilbronn program." He died in 1526.Biographical note contained in the ''Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Volume 10'', p. 723.

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1465 births 1526 deaths People from Hohenlohe (district) German revolutionaries Military personnel of the Holy Roman Empire {{Germany-noble-stub