Daniel von Büren the Elder

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Coat of arms of the von Büren family at the entrance to the Egestorff Foundation

Daniel von Büren the Elder (* 15th century in Bremen ; † April 4, 1541   in Bremen) was councilor and mayor of Bremen at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th century.

biography

Von Büren, whose date of birth has not been recorded, was a son of his parents Hermann von Büren and of Gretje Brand, a daughter of Councilor Daniel Brands the Elder. Daniel von Büren's great-grandfather Rudolf (or Rulf ) von Büren - who came from an old noble family in Holstein - immigrated to Bremen in 1325, where his brother was abbot of the St. Paul Monastery .

Von Büren studied at the University of Rostock . On December 4, 1486, he was elected to the Bremen Council and mayor in 1500, an office that he held for 38 years. In 1503 he opposed the sale of indulgences , which Cardinal Raimund Peraudi carried out in the city on behalf of the Pope, and managed to have some of the nearly 7,000 guilders that he had collected remain in Bremen. He was in 1506 and 1507 advice broadcast to the Hanseatic Day in Lübeck. At the Hanseatic Congress in Bremen in 1514, after the Imperial Peace between the Dutch and the Wendish cities had expired, he was recognized by both sides as a verbal arbitrator. Under his leadership, Bremen massively strengthened the city's fortifications between 1512 and 1514 , a measure that  proved to be very valuable in 1547 - during the Schmalkaldic War - when Bremen was besieged twice by imperial troops.

In 1522 von Büren gave his consent that the reformer Heinrich von Zütphen could preach at the St. Ansgarii Church , which brought Bremen into conflict with the Catholic Church and the Kaiser . In the course of the dispute with Archbishop Christoph , who was hostile to the Reformation , in 1523 the council had the St. Paul monastery in front of the Ostertor torn down, as it was located on a dune near the city wall and could have served as a fortified base for possible attackers. At the Hanseatic Day in 1530, he reported the dispute with Hamburg over the grain transport on the Elbe: Bremen must now seek its rights from the emperor.

From 1530 to 1532 the riot of the lower classes, known as the uprising of the 104 men , took place in Bremen . At the beginning of 1532, the council had to expand the previous citizens' grazing committee from 40 to 104 elected men, each with 26 representatives from each of the four parishes. According to the sealed document of 1532, this body was allowed to have a say in almost all urban matters; a first citizenship had arisen. After a violent argument and the disempowerment of the merchants, von Büren, part of the council and some wealthy citizens had to flee to Bederkesa . After the end of the power of the 104 men by the council's troops and the reinstatement of the old council, the council passed the New Unity in 1534, a restrictive state constitution based on Bremen's city law of 1433, which even strengthened the council's position. Despite an amnesty that von Büren granted before and after his return, the spokesman for the Committee of 104 Men, the goldsmith Johann Dove, was sentenced and executed on flimsy grounds. Other members of the 104 were also executed and 22 members of the 104 escaped and lost their property.

Over several decades, von Büren wrote his so-called Denkbuch (also Denkelbuch ), which describes Bremen events, memorabilia and customs in the form of a chronicle. The records from the years 1490 to 1525 have been preserved, but the original work presumably covered an even longer period.

Daniel von Büren was married four times and had four sons and seven daughters. His son Daniel von Büren the Younger also became mayor and is considered the most important Bremen statesman of the 16th century.

The Daniel von Buren Street was named after them.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e German Gender Book, Volume 190, 6. Ostfriesisches Geschlechtbuch ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on page 277 No. 2 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.starkeverlag.de
  2. ↑ See the entry of Daniel von Büren's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

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personal data
SURNAME Büren, Daniel from the elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH before 1486
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1541
Place of death Bremen