Klaus Hottinger (died 9 March 1524) was a Swiss shoemaker born in Zollikon. A disciple of Zwingli, he took part in the famous "Affair of the Sausages" of 1522 which marked the public beginning of the Reformation in Switzerland.Hans Ulrich Bächtold in the Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz Retrieved 2011-03-14. In 1523, he overthrew a wooden crucifix at Stadelhofen on the outskirts of Zurich. He was as a consequence banished from the canton in November 1523. He was executed in Lucerne on 9 March 1524, despite Zurich's effort to intervene on his behalf, and thus became the first martyr of the Swiss Protestant movement.Hans Ulrich Bächtold in the Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz Retrieved 2011-03-14.
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: "A band of citizens, under the lead of a shoemaker, Klaus Hottinger, overthrew the great wooden crucifix in Stadelhofen, near the city, and committed other ..."
External links Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (GAMEO) Hottinger Genealogy in French Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church