Georg Obrecht

[1] After escaping death as a Protestant amidst the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, he returned to Strasbourg and eventually obtained a professorship at his own high school.

[2] Obrecht posits that rulers must make sure they have adequate funds to pay civil servants, or else risk exposing their own subjects to injustices.

[2] Obrecht condemned the practice of currency debasement, pointing out that it reduced the value of coinage and had a negative impact, was illegal under the laws of the Holy Roman Empire, and invited the punishment of God.

[2] He advocated that the government encourage navigation and pay merchants in advance for foreign goods, as well as stockpile commodities such as wine and foodstuffs in case of scarcity.

Albion Small notes that it was increasingly typical of German political theory to assume a government role in safeguarding and promoting public morality.