Sigismund Salminger was a former Franciscan who was baptised by Hans Hut and married. Having just arrived in Augsburg the second time he became a leader of the Augsburg Anabaptists in 1526, before imprisonment in 1527, and finally recantation and release in 1530. His name also appeared as Sigmund Salminger, Sigismund Salblinger, and Sigismund Slablinger.