The Shocking Medieval Executioner’s Life Journal Reveals Details You’ve Never Heard of
What it felt like to kill humans for a living
In the medieval age, the high class used fear to retain absolute power over the population.
And, what better way to inspire fear than public executions.
Thus, Killing and torturing criminals was considered a necessary profession.
One man born in 1555, Franz Schmidt, became very successful at chopping heads off of criminals. It brought him fortunes and high status.
And through his diary, we get a glimpse of what it was like to be a successful executioner in medieval times.
45 Years of Success: The Beginning
The people despised professional executioners.
So, naturally, no man wanted to become an executioner.
One had to be forced into it by a monarch or a high-ranking member of the society, which happened to Franz’s father, Heinrich.
Heinrich was a woodsman.
One day going about his business, a crowd formed around three men who were captured by a tyrannical prince of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Albrecht II.
