battle. She spent her life fighting for her inheritance of the family and her father spent his life trying to ruin her. Anna and her brother Phillip and sister Agatha grew apart and because of the dishonorable things that Anna did to her family, caused hatred between them all. The lawsuits, the punishments and the abuse that Herman Buschler did to his daughter are unbelievable. Anna charged many different law suits against her father and charged him with anything she could. She charged him with abandonment after he had taken her captive and she charged him with abuse. The worst punishment was yet to come, when her father had passed away. By his last will and testament he managed to cast an even darker shadow over her in death then he had in life. He disinherited her and left her the least amount that he thought the law required. (Burgermeisters Daughter, 147-148). This last litigation was a fight to the end; she had come to an agreement between her siblings and made a decision. That decision turned out to be almost exactly what her father had left her. By the end of Anna Buschler's life she learned to be satisfied with what was given to her because she realized in comparison to what she had lost she might as well just take what she was being given. This was definitely not the way sixteenth century families were run, and because of this she fought her father, her siblings and the council of Hall for her inheritance, and in the end she had come out satisfied. Anna Buschler led a very challenging life, and a very dramatic one at that. Anna was a dishonorable woman that was an embarrassment not only to her family but also of her home city, Hall. She fought her way through long, drawn out lawsuits and through the abandonment of her family, but she made the citizens of Hall believe in her, and thats all it took. Womens life in the sixteenth century was built around men and didnt have the majority of rights in Germany, but Anna ...
