Simon Kramer (* 16 January 1785 in (municipality Maria Saal); "† 20 September 1809 in Zojach (municipality love rock); also Simerl ), was a robber and is considered today as "Robin Hood of ".

Simon Kramer was born as a son of a Keuschlers (vulgo ") in the year 1785 in the Riederskeu upper at the tariff field.

The country and the childhood of the young Kramers coined/shaped occupation by the French troops. Its father Sebastian established himself with his family in pc. Veit to the Glan 19) and Simon observed it how he granted Unterschlupf to thieves and vagrants in his house. From them Simon learned also the thief handicraft and committed 1806 its first acts as Brigant.

The Simerl, how it was called, committed - often with accomplices - thefts and armed robberies, usually with simple farmers. The legends idealize it: He lay in wait for to driving buyers in the Wolschartwald and forwards to attack on the Frenchmen did not even back-frighten and from these a war cash robbed. "The booty distributed Simon Kramer among its poor, halbverhungerten compatriots ", maintains the legend. As safe hiding place before Napoleons Gefolgsleuten is to have served it and its way companion July IANA of rain fields the close Wolschartwald in the middle on the Krappfeld.

Simon Kramer was streckbrieflich looked for and arrested twice, however he escaped from the municipality dungeon in widening field. After its second arrest 35 criminal offences were put to it to the load and it at the beginning of of 1809 to lifelong dungeon were condemned, but extracted themselves it from the law by a spectacular escape from the Klagenfurter criminal court. It had freed its friend July IANA from the dungeon already before from the lock Mageregg, which provided for large attention.

In the evening 17. Of September of the yearly 1809 Simon Kramer was placed with "the Wegscheiderwirt "in Zojach by a patrol under the guidance of the regional court male nurse Anton Lackner and shot there because of alleged resistance. Without intervention of the national administration the court did investigation of this incident. The legend knows to report of traitors from the own rows and of a wondrous measurer, who after Simon Kramer turned, as soon as danger threatened.

As deterring example the French general Jean Baptiste Rusca let the body of the dead hang up three days long at the Galgen in Annabichl with complaint ford. Where it is buried, is unknown.

Related links

• Legend of the Krapfenbeck Simmele
• Stories of the Simerl

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