Anton Tucher
Anton Tucher (* 1458 in Nuremberg ; † April 27, 1524 ibid) was a German merchant and patron as well as the first losunger (administrator of the city taxes ) of the imperial city of Nuremberg .
biography
Tucher was the son of Anton I. Tucher (1412–1476) and his wife Barbara Stromer von Reichenbach . For several years that he spent in Venice , he ran the Tucher company with his cousins Hans and Martin and he was a member of the local brotherhood of German merchants .
Mayor and businessman
After his father's death in 1477, during a visit to a trade fair in Frankfurt, he was appointed to the city council of Nuremberg (young mayor 1477 to 1490, old mayor from 1491).
As the city's envoy, he was on various diplomatic missions from 1488 . Together with Martin Geuder and Hans Harsdörffer, he concluded the contract of Erfurt with Margrave Friedrich the Elder of Brandenburg in 1502 for the protection of the parish fair in Affalterbach , which put an end to armed conflicts. Securing the Nuremberg land area acquired in the Landshut War of Succession in 1504/05 was an important concern for him. When Elector Frederick the Wise of Saxony was Tucher in high esteem. In 1507 he became the caretaker of St. Sebald, the Katharinen- and Augustinerkloster. He was a sponsor of Luther's new teaching in Nuremberg. His household book gives a good insight into the lifestyle of the Nuremberg upper class for the period between 1507 and 1523.
patron
As a patron, among other things, he commissioned Veit Stoss in 1517 for the English greeting , a group of figures for the St. Lorenz Church . In 1522 he donated the dragon chandelier for the regiment room in the town hall (the meeting place of the Septemvirn), which was made by Veit Stoss based on designs by Albrecht Dürer .
He is buried in the new family grave on the Johannisfriedhof. His son Leonhard and the children of his late son Anton were heirs to his property.
Honors
- The Anton-Tucher-Straße in Bremen - Hemelingen was named after him in 1999.
literature
- Ernst Mummenhoff: Tucher, Anton . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 756-764.
Web links
- Ernst Mummenhoff: Tucher, Anton . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 756-764.
- The correspondence between Elector Friedrich the Wise of Saxony and the Imperial City of Nuremberg (dissertation on Anton Tucher)
Individual evidence
- ^ Glossary of German-New High German ( Memento from December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), uni-hamburg.de. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tucher, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German merchant and patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1458 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 1524 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |