Detmar Kenckel

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Epitaph of Detmar Kenckel in St. Ansgarii

Detmar Kenckel (born October 9, 1513 in Verden ; † February 19, 1584 in Bremen ) was a councilor and mayor of Bremen .

biography

Kenckel, who grew up as the son of the merchant, councilor and mayor of Verden Diedrich Kenckel († 1531), attended St. Ansgar's school in Bremen in 1527 and studied at the University of Wittenberg from 1529 , where he heard Luther and Melanchthon. In 1531 he took over his father's business in Verden. In 1539 he married Anna von Cleve in Bremen, became a citizen of Bremen and ran a wholesale business in wool and honey.

On January 7, 1549, Kenckel was elected councilor. Subsequently, he was envoy of the city of Bremen, in May 1553 with representatives of the Hanseatic League because of the renewal of the Stalhof privileges with Maria I in England, in 1554 with Duke Heinrich von Braunschweig and then on December 6, 1554 in Brussels, where Bremen was from Emperor Karl V. seven years after the end of the Schmalkaldic War the fine was waived. On December 28, 1554 he became mayor of Bremen. He was an opponent of the incumbent mayor Daniel von Büren the Younger . Kenckel and a majority in the Bremen Council fought against the Dutchman Albert Rizäus Hardenberg , a reformist who supported the social lower and middle class in Bremen through his popular reforms. In 1558 there was a scandal when von Büren - against Kenckel and the council - denied the council the authority to decide on theological questions. Hardenberg left Bremen in 1561, but von Büren prevailed with the majority of the now Reformed citizens. On January 19, 1562, hundreds of citizens gathered in front of the town hall and demanded the freedom to practice their religion and the banishment of the Orthodox. Kenckel and a large part of the councilors as well as five preachers gave way to the threatening violence. He went into exile on March 24, 1562, first to Archbishop Georg and then to Count Anton in Oldenburg . He represented the interests of the old Bremen council and in January 1563 brought about Bremen's exclusion from the Hanseatic League (Veransung until 1576). In 1568 the Augsburg Confession was finally recognized by the contending parties. The fled councilors - including Kenckel - were allowed to return to Bremen in 1568, but they had lost their offices.

His son Tilemann Kenckel , who passed away , became council secretary in Lübeck.

Fonts

  • Heinrich Smidt (Ed.): From Detmar Kenckel's estate (Bremen family papers from the 16th century) In: Bremisches Jahrbuch , 7th volume, Bremen [1874]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b German Gender Book Volume 190, 6th Ostfriesisches Gender Book ( 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. , P 254 no.154 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.starkeverlag.de

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personal data
SURNAME Kenckel, Detmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1513
PLACE OF BIRTH Verden
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1584
Place of death Bremen