Anton Thurler

Anton Thurler (also Antonius Thurler, Thorler, Dörler ; * 1490 in Lößnitz , † 1566 in Dresden ) was a Dresden councilor and mayor .

Life

origin

Anton Thurler most likely came from a family resident in the Lößnitz, which is mentioned several times under the names Torler, Thürler or Turler in documents from the 15th and 16th centuries. Several members are mentioned as students in the registers of the University of Leipzig , including an Antonius Torler de Leßanitz (ie from Lößnitz near Dresden).

Role in the history of the Reformation

Thurler probably met Thomas Stör, who was also from Dresden, during his studies around 1520/22. In 1524 Stör wrote a leaflet addressed to Antonius Thurler with the title Christian Admonition to Antonius Thurler , in which he critically dealt with the conditions in the Catholic Church . In this pamphlet, Stör compared the state of the church to a devastated vineyard and called for the previous priests to be removed and instead honorable men from the parishes to be chosen as pastors who preach about faith and love and who should be role models through their way of life. The leaflet is considered one of the most important pamphlets in the early history of the Reformation . Stör and Thurler are among the first evangelicals in Dresden.

Act as councilor and mayor

Professionally, Thurler worked as an elector valet. In 1544 he was mentioned for the first time in the register of Dresden councilors and remained councilor until his death in 1566. In 1560 he took over the office of the ruling mayor of the city, which he held again every three years in 1563 according to the council regulations. He was married to Anna Kettwig from Meissen , the widow of the Meissen town clerk, city judge and councilor Linhardt Schatz, who died in 1544.

literature

• Sieglinde Richter-Nickel: The venerable council of Dresden , in: Dresdner Geschichtsbuch No. 5, Dresden City Museum (ed.); DZA Verlag for Culture and Science, Altenburg 1999, ISBN 3-9806602-1-4 .
• Otto Richter: Constitutional and administrative history of the city of Dresden , Volume 1, Verlag W. Baensch, Dresden 1885.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Viktor Hantzsch: Dresdner at universities from the 14th to the 17th century , in: Mitteilungen des Verein für Geschichte Dresdens, Volume 19, Verlag W. Baensch, 1906.
2. ↑ Thomas Stör, a witness of the early Reformation movement in Dresden , in: Yearbook for the History of Feudalism, Volume 10, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1986, ISBN 9783050009742 , p. 197.
3. ^ Otto Clemen: Pamphlets from the first years of the Reformation , Volume 3, Verlag R. Haupt, 1909
4. ^ Johann Ludwig Rüling: History of the Reformation at Meissen in 1539 and the following years, together with proving and explanatory notes , Verlag CF Klinkicht, 1839, p. 79. online

predecessor	Office	successor
Christoph Kentman (1559, 1562)	Mayor of Dresden 1560 , 1563	Hans Khun (1561, 1564)