Christian Schwarz (Mayor, 1581)
Christian Schwarz , also Schwartz (* December 24, 1581 ; † July 18, 1648 ) was Mayor of Greifswald and District Administrator in the Duchy of Pomerania .
Life
Christian Schwarz was a son of the Greifswald merchant Jürgen (Georg) Schwarz († 1596) and his second wife Emerentia Schmiterlow, daughter of Greifswald mayor Bertram Schmiterlow and Anna Bünsow. From 1597 he began to study law at the University of Greifswald .
He became city judge and councilor in Greifswald in 1610 . In 1631 he became mayor of the city and ducal Pomeranian district administrator.
Christian Schwarz was married to Regina Völschow (1582–1630) since 1606, daughter of the Greifswald councilors Joachim (Jochen) Völschow and Sibilla Mevius, and widow of the Greifswald mayor Jochen Brunnemann. During the unrest of the Thirty Years' War , the family lived temporarily on their Frätow estate . His wife died of the plague in 1630. After the estate was destroyed by Swedish troops in 1637, the family fled first to Stralsund and later to Upatel near Gützkow . From the marriage came:
- Regina, first married to Christoph Bünsow († 1629), second to Barthold von Krakewitz
- Christian Schwarz (1610–1679), Mayor of Stralsund, Swedish-Pomeranian district administrator
- Joachim († 1660), Greifswald councilor
- Emerentia, married first to Hermann Queren (1610–1643), second marriage to Peter Kirchain (1618–1657)
- Sibylla Schwarz (1621–1638), poet
- Georg, Greifswald citizen
The children who survived him donated an epitaph after his death , which is in the St. Nikolai Cathedral .
Web links
- DI77, Greifswald, St. Nikolai, epitaph for the mayor Christian Schwarz. In: www.inschriften.net. Retrieved April 26, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Jörg-Ulrich Fechner: Schwar (t) z, Sibylle (Sibylla). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 800 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ^ Adolf Häckermann : Schwarz, Sibylla . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 248 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Black, Christian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schwartz, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mayor of Greifswald, District Administrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1581 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 18, 1648 |