Another Anabaptist Balthasar Hubmaier broke out of jail in Zurich and fled to Moravia where he founded communities of Anabaptists known as the Moravian Brethren. He and his wife were arrested in Vienna where they were tried for heresy and executed. 

His successor Jan Hut, was tasked with caring for the communities of Moravian Brethren Hubmaier had established. Hut took the Moravains in a bewildering direction by introducing communism into the ranks. He based this belief of communal ownership of goods on the practice of the early disciples mentioned in the book of Acts.  This branch of the Moravians was later known as the Hutterites. Hut was Austrian by birth and upbringing and many of his followers were Austrian Anabaptists who flocked to Moravia in search of refuge from the persecutions of Ferdinand I.