Adam Tratziger

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Adam Trat forties , even Traziger (* 1523 in Nuremberg ; † 17th October 1584 in Rahlstedt ) was a lawyer , syndic and Holstein Chancellor .

Live and act

Adam Tratziger's ancestors came from Silesia or Styria. Around 1400 they moved to Nuremberg, where they became rich as masterminds. Adam Tratziger was a son of Konrad and Helene Trotzieher. The father later left Nuremberg and lived in Leipzig and Zwickau in 1542, in 1546 and later presumably in Berlin . The maternal grandfather was the Nuremberg lawyer Johann Letscher.

Tratziger went to school in Nuremberg and during this time developed interests in philosophy, rhetoric and science. Supported by a scholarship, he studied law at the University of Leipzig from 1540 and completed his studies with a master's degree. Then he studied until 1546 at the University of Frankfurt an der Oder , which he left with a doctorate. He immediately received a call from the University of Rostock , where he taught decretals and canon law and worked as the city council. 1546/1547 he was rector of the university. In 1551 the Rostock council appointed him one of its commissioners. In this position he negotiated with the councilors of the Dukes Johann Albrecht I and Heinrich von Mecklenburg and envoys of the cities of Hamburg, Lübeck and Lüneburg about a reform of the university. He later headed the city syndicate.

From 1553 to the beginning of 1558 Tratziger worked as a syndicus, trustee and legal advisor to the City Council of Hamburg. Here he married Gertrud von Zeven, who was a daughter of Georg (Jürgen) von Zevens and his wife Elisabeth, née von Me (h) re. His wife brought the Wandsbek estate into the marriage, which Tratziger owned as a pledge from the Danish king until it was sold to Heinrich Rantzau in 1564 . From 1555 to 1557 he had an annual basic income of 620 pounds, from which he bought a house on the corner of Brandstwiete and Kleine Reichenstrasse.

In 1555 Tratziger was made an honorary citizen of Hamburg and in the same year the first of three Syndici. As the ambassador of the Hanseatic city he traveled to Bergedorf , Segeberg , Zollenspieker , Elector of Brandenburg , Lübeck , Lüneburg , Itzehoe , Hasselwerder , Frankfurt am Main , Osnabrück , Estebrugge , Sachsen-Lauenburg , Uelzen , Bremen-Verden and to the court of Emperor in Brussels . In 1554 he negotiated as a deputy with Duke Heinrich the Younger about the repurchase of the occupied Bergedorf, the management of which was then taken over by another bailiff. In the same year Tratziger took part in talks with ambassadors from Denmark and the dukes Johann and Adolf, during which the sovereign claims of Holstein on Hamburg were negotiated. Also in 1554 he traveled to Brussels as a lawyer, where a process with the cathedral chapter was supposed to decide on property claims, pensions and jurisdictions. As a lawyer for the Hanseatic City, he managed to temporarily postpone the trial. The negotiations were continued in 1555 in a commission set up under the leadership of Franz Otto von Lüneburg and Johann IV. Von Osnabrück .

In 1556 he took part as a Hamburg delegate at a meeting of the Elbe bank states in Frankfurt am Main. During this meeting called by Ferdinand I , the delegates negotiated regulations on shipping on the Elbe and the Elbe tariffs . In addition, he represented Hamburg at the days of Wendish cities and the Hanseatic days . For a position as Chancellor offered by Adolf von Gottorp , Tratziger left Hamburg at the beginning of 1558, but remained in contact with his previous place of work: in 1562 he put Paul von Eitzen, who had been dismissed in Hamburg, the position of Superintendent von Gottorf. In 1575 he served as canon of the Hamburg cathedral chapter.

Adam Tratziger died in a car accident on a trip from Hamburg to Gottorf near Rahlstedt. He was buried in the Hamburg Cathedral . Tratzigerstrasse in Marienthal has been named after him since 1950 .

Works

Tratziger completed his most important work as a chronicler in 1557. With The old, well-known city of Hamburg chronica and yearbooks , he described the history of Hamburg from Charlemagne up to 1555 in annalistic form. He structured the chronicle according to the reigns of the Roman-German emperors. Most of the copies of the work, which was written in High German, have three preceding chapters in which the author went into the prehistory of Hamburg. The chronicle was copied from the last third of the 16th century. Today 100 copies are known in northern Germany alone.

For the chronicle, Tratziger used documents from the Hamburg council archives, official roles and recesses. He used the councilor list of the Hamburg protonotary and later councilor Hermann Röver and the writings of Widukind von Corveys , Saxo Grammaticus , Hermann Korners , Detmars , Johannes Ruffus , Albert Krantz , Johann Petersens , Bernd Gysekes , Stephan Kempes , Sebastian Besselmeyers and Johannes Aventins . As Peter Lambeck noted in the 17th century, the author made several mistakes. Nevertheless, the chronicle can be regarded as a reliable source for Hamburg's history.

The city chronicle was first printed in 1740. By then, however, their importance had already waned. Several copyists continued the work and, like Wentzel Janibal and Otto Sperling , developed independent fonts from it. In the 18th century who replaced attempt to reliable news of the church and political state of Hamburg by Michael Gottlieb Steltzner Trat Ziger Chronicle.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry 1546 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Hans Schröder: Lexicon of Hamburg writers to the present . Band Pauli-Schoff. Continued by CRW Klose. 1873, p. 351, no. 3257 ( books.google.de )
  3. ↑ Internet edition of a Tratziger sequel. In: hamburger-chronik.de. Mathias Nagel, accessed on May 5, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Tratziger, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Traziger, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer, Syndicus and Holstein Chancellor
DATE OF BIRTH 1523
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 1584
Place of death at Rahlstedt