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Konrad Baumgarten orConrad von Baumgarten is a hero of the Swiss liberation legend and, according toFriedrich Schiller's playWilliam Tell, oath-taker at the famousRütli-oath of 1 August 1291 forming theOld Swiss Confederacy. There, Baumgarten was acting in his function as one of the representatives ofUnterwalden, together with the somewhat youngerArnold von Melchthal. Baumgarten was a free and wealthy man who has killed, in his own residence, the local Habsburg sheriff Wolfenschiessen with an axe in defence of his wife Itta Baumgarten against the sheriff's trespass and inappropriate attempts to approach her. With the assistance ofWilliam Tell, Baumgarten managed to escape from the sheriff's warriors and to flee toWerner Stauffacher on the other side ofLake Lucerne.[1]
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