Cord Jastram

Cord Jastram, portrait of P. von Müller 1695

Cord Jastram (* 1634 in Hamburg ; † October 4, 1686 ibid) was a Hamburg shipowner and politician of the 17th century.

Life

The trained dyer ran a successful fleet of whaling ships with the financial support of the businessman and politician Hieronymus Snitger , which set out on the Greenland voyage probably 30 times between 1672 and 1686 . Also together with Snitger, he rose to the position of spokesman for the Hamburg citizenship in the thirties committee that represented them until the beginning of the 1680s, and as such he got into the front row of an inner-city dispute between the citizenship and the city's senate that was difficult for Hamburg. The old council was in parts overturned and driven out of the city. The Duke Georg Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Lüneburg threatened to restore the inner-city order of Hamburg for the empire. Together with Snitger, Jastram tried to counteract this by drawing on Denmark. The Danish king used this opportunity to besiege Hamburg in 1686 . The population withstood this siege until help could be called; however, she turned away from her spokesmen and dropped them. The returned old council had Jastram and Snitger convicted of treason and executed after an unproductive embarrassing interrogation . Jastram was gutted, quartered and beheaded. Jastram's head was impaled on a stake at the Millerntor and remained there for everyone to see for the next nine years. August Wygand campaigned for the rehabilitation of the two of them from emigration in 1697.

literature

• Lukas von Bostel : Truthful Deduction-Schrifft, Wherein The Origin and Course of the, by both Executirten Cordt Jastram and Hieronymus Schnitker, As well as their adherents, entangled hopeless Complots ... is presented and proven , Hamburg 1687.
• Hans-Dieter Loose:  Cord Jastram. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 365 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Wilhelm Sillem:  Jastram, Cord . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, pp. 634-642.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Steffen Martus: Enlightenment - The German 18th Century - a picture of epochs , page x . Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek / Berlin 2015
2. ↑ Hamburg's history: Free imperial city
3. ↑ Dero Royal Majest. zu Dännemarck / Norway [et] c. [Etc. Ordered Rahts August Wygand's thorough investigation / whether the Hamburg citizenry / as you did in the meeting held on Sept. 23, 1697 / to carry out the former Schnittger Jastramsche matter again ...