John II of Nuremberg

John II (c. 1309 – 1357), called the Acquirer, was Burgrave of Nuremberg and elder son of Frederick IV. Succeeding in 1332, he earned his byname by enlarging the Hohenzollern lands in Franconia, notably through an inheritance treaty that brought him Plassenburg Castle and Kulmbach in 1340, when the counts of Orlamünde died out.

In 1345 he briefly governed the March of Brandenburg for the Wittelsbach margrave Louis. When plague reached Nuremberg in his time, the city's Jews were massacred and the burgrave did not intervene.

By Elisabeth of Henneberg he left an only son, Frederick V, who succeeded him. His two daughters became abbesses of Birkenfeld.