Otto von Pack

Otto von Pack (born 1480?—died Feb. 8, 1537, Brussels) was a German politician whose intrigues and forgeries almost caused a general war between Germany’s Catholic and Protestant princes in 1528. Pack, a Saxon nobleman, studied law at the University of Leipzig, after which he entered the service of George, duke of Saxony. By 1519 most important governmental matters in Saxony were entrusted to him, and he represented his ruler at the Reichstag (imperial Diet) from...