Euloge Schneider

Euloge Schneider Jean Georges (10/20/1756 - 1794), born in Wipfeld, in Franconie, Germany, former priest and indicter near the criminal court of Strasbourg; decree in December 1793, it was guillotine with Paris on April 1st, 1794.

Before the Revolution

Euloge Schneider was poet, former professor of Greek in Bonn and translator of Anacréon and Midsummer's Day Chrysotome. General vicar of Strasbourg before embracing the novel ideas.

Under the Revolution

Under the Revolution, it organized a network made up men, come like him from Germany and former priests, Schneidériens. Euloge Schneider practiced forced requisitions, raised the taxation of the rich person, imposed fines and exposed the contraveners to public vindication. Its terrorist practices resembled those of Louis Antoine Leon de Saint-Just and of Philippe-François-Joseph the Bottom which worked with him throughout all their first stay in Alsace like envoys of mission near the armies.

Arrest of Euloge Schneider

In the night from December 12th to 13rd 1793, Louis Antoine Leon de Saint-Just and Philippe-François-Joseph Bottom makes stop Euloge Schneider, then his/her principal collaborators and puts a term at revolutionary propaganda.

Ostentation insolates posted by Euloge Schneider which entered Strasbourg, accompanied by its young woman, " trailed by six horses and surrounded guards, the saber nu" was used as pretext. Exposed during four hours to the sight of the people " for expier the insult made with manners of the Republic naissante" , qualified above priest and born prone from the emperor, it was sent to Paris, where it judged and was condemned to died and carried out on April 1st, 1794.

Schneidériens

De Barr with Haguenau, their influence extended on all nonoccupied Low-Rhine; they purified or replaced the municipalities, took care of the application of the " maximum " and denounced the suspects.

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