Peter Schwarber

Peter Schwarber was a bourgeois and Alsatian politician, Ammeister (equivalent to mayor) of the Free Imperial City of Strasbourg, then a city-state of the Holy Roman Empire, at the time of the events leading up to the Strasbourg massacre on February 14, 1349, which he opposed unsuccessfully.

In remembrance of his willingness to protect the Jews and their legal status within the city of Strasbourg, a street has been named after him in the symbolic vicinity of the European Court of Human Rights, which notably hosts the European School of Strasbourg.

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