Deutschmeister (German Order)
German Masters (Magister Germaniae) was the title of a high Gebietigers of the Teutonic Order . Since 1219 was the official designation of the bailiwicks in the Holy Roman Empire competent country champion . In Germany (since December 11, 1381 also responsible for Italy) which functioned since 1218 German Masters ( " masterful Tewtzschordens in German and welischen land "), which in 1494 by the Roman-German King Maximilian I in the Imperial Prince was charged. After the secularization of the Teutonic Order under the last Grand Master to rule in Prussia , Albrecht, in 1525, the German Master Walther von Cronberg received from Emperor Charles V in 1527 the right to call himself “Administrator of Grand Mastery”. At the Augsburg Reichstag in 1530 , he was enfeoffed with the Land of Prussia by Emperor Charles V, but without political consequences for Duke Albrecht of Prussia.
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literature
- Erich Maschke: The German Order State - shaping its great masters ; Hamburg-Wandsbek 1935/1942, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt AG
- Jürgen Sarnowsky : The German Order ; Beck, Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-406-53628-1
- Hermann Schreiber : Prussia and the Baltic States under the crusaders. The history of the Teutonic Order ; Casimir Katz Verlag, Gernsbach 2003, ISBN 3-925825-83-5
- Wolfgang Sonthofen: The German Order ; Weltbild, Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-89350-713-2
- Marian Tumler: The Teutonic Order in becoming, growing and working until 1400 ; Panorama-Verlag, Vienna 1954
- Uwe Ziegler: Cross and Sword. The history of the Teutonic Order ; Böhlau, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-412-13402-3