Johann Georg Fuchs von Dornheim

Johann Georg II Fuchs Freiherr von Dorn home ( born April 23 1586 Wiesentheid, Lower Franconia, † March 29, 1633 in Spital am Pyhrn, Upper Austria ) was Prince-Bishop of Bamberg and champion of the Counter-Reformation and merciless witch hunters ( "witch burner" or " Bishop called Witches ").

The already intensively operated under his predecessor Johann Gottfried I of Aschhausen persecution of witches in Bamberg was increased again in the reign of Johann Georg II. On Friedrich Förner, its already appointed by his predecessor, Vicar General and Auxiliary Bishop, to build its own Drudenhauses ( Malefizhaus, witch prison ) in Bamberg went back. It was completed in 1627 and had space for 30 to 40 prisoners. In this time of the witch trials about 300 people in Bamberg and 900 people were in the high pin the death on the stake. Well-known personalities such as the mayor Johannes Junius and the bishop's chancellor Dr. George Haan, who had criticized the processes, Christina Dorothea Flock Morhaubt and he put to death. At the instigation of Emperor Ferdinand II (1619-1637) of Reichshofrat in Vienna attacked from 1629 into the sprawling Bamberg witch trials and sat them in 1631 to an end.

On February 11, 1632 the Bishopric of Bamberg from Sweden was occupied under the leadership of King Gustav Adolf and Johann Georg II fled, taking with part of the cathedral treasure and important documents with a part of the chapter to Spital am Pyhrn (Upper Austria ).

He died at the age of 47 years on the effects of a stroke in his Upper Austrian exile.