Citizen Recess

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The Bürgerrezess from January 9, 1669 is a constitutional document by which the Hanseatic City of Lübeck to previous unrest and the Kassarezess the participation rights in the relationship between citizenship and the year 1665 Council comparatively have been set. The Lübeck Council changed the majority of its members that year, partly through death, but also through two resignations.

The recess is the first constitutional document of this free imperial city, whose Lübisches law at that time had been a model and model for other cities in Northern Germany and the bordering Baltic Sea region for centuries. It was created in the course of 1668 with the help of imperial mediation by the Duke of Braunschweig, who sent Joachim Friedrich Söhlen to Lübeck, and the Elector of Brandenburg, who was represented by Otto von Grote . On January 9, 1669, the citizens' recess was signed by the majority of Lübeck's civil colleges, the offices and the members of the council.

One of the main contents was the establishment of the council election, which in Lübeck was based on the model of self-completion. The citizen recession did not change anything, only a new Senate constitution in 1848 . The citizen recess only stipulated from which merchant corporations and civil offices the council had to supplement itself in which proportion. After that, the council consisted of four mayors as before and 16 councilors who were to be proportionally elected from certain group proposals. Of the mayors, three each had to be lawyers and the fourth merchant. The influential circle society was only entitled to three seats among the 16 councilors. The same was true of the merchant company that followed suit. The citizen's recession thus limited the overwhelming influence of the urban patriciate united in the aristocratic circle society. Eight of the councilors had to come from the commercial guilds (such as the Skåne drivers or the mountain drivers ), two more had to be scholars (lawyers). As a result of the signing of the recession, some disgruntled conservative families of the patriciate turned away from the city permanently. The mayor Gotthard von Höveln resigned from the council and submitted his Moisling estate and himself to the Danish crown. The development met with outright rejection from the conservative, aristocratic circles, so that the circle society and merchant company only signed the recess later, after an imperial decree of July 5, 1672.

Further regulations concerned the decision-making participation of the citizens in questions of taxes and finances of the city, the decision about the assets of the city and about war and peace.

literature

  • Citizen recession in: Johann Christian Lünig : The German Reich Archive, in which to find the same basic laws and regulations ... , Lanckischen, 1714, pp. 1404-1414
  • Johann Rudolph Becker : Cumbersome history of the kaiserl. and salvation. Roman Empire freyen city of Lübeck , text of the citizen recession as an annex to Volume III, Lübeck 1805
  • Jürgen Asch: Council and citizenship in Lübeck, 1598-1669: the constitutional disputes in the 17th century and their social backgrounds. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1961
  • Antjekathrin Graßmann : Lübeckische Geschichte. 2nd edition, Lübeck 1989, pp. 458 ff., ISBN 3-7950-3203-2
  • Antjekathrin Graßmann: Lübeck Lexicon. Lübeck 2006 ISBN 3-7950-7777-X