Thomas Müntzer is regarded as a radical reformer - rightly so. He is also seen as a social revolutionary - is that justified? Thomas Müntzer did not want to change society; he wanted to lead his contemporaries to the apocalypse. This was imminent - he concluded this from God's statements, who had communicated with him, the end-time prophet, through mystical revelations. Here, there was only a distinction between the chosen and the lost. The unbelievers did not even have the right to live. Müntzer's politics were, therefore, terror. Well, the apocalypse did not occur at that time. And Germany was spared a terrorist regime. But only in the 16th century.