Gerhart Hauptmann’s “Florian Geyer” is set during the German Peasants’ War. The Franconian knight Florian Geyer sides with the rebellious peasants and leads the “Black Troop” against princes and nobility. While the movement initially gathers strength, it eventually falls apart due to internal tensions, violence, and betrayal. The uprisings are crushed, Geyer falls victim to an assassination, and the Peasants’ War ends in bloody defeat.