Dominikus Dietrich (lawyer)

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Dominikus Dietrich (born January 30, 1620 in Strasbourg ; † March 9, 1692 ibid) was a German lawyer and from 1660 several times ammeister (mayor) of Strasbourg.

Dominikus Dietrich came from a Protestant , originally French family Didier. He studied in his hometown, joined the Grand Council at an early age and was elected Ammeister for the first time in 1660. Since the Protestant imperial city came under increasing pressure through the reunion policy of the French King Louis XIV , he pursued a policy aimed at neutrality and sought a compromise with the representatives of France in Strasbourg, which earned him the distrust of the patriots. His position became even more difficult when in 1672 he carried out the execution of Georg Obrecht, who had written an anonymous pamphlet against him. But in 1678 he personally participated in the resistance that Strasbourg troops and Swiss opposed to the French in the Kehl fortress , but without success. When a French army under Joseph de Montclar appeared in front of Strasbourg in 1681 as a result of the ruling of the Reunionskammern , he headed a deputation to the French camp, but had to sign the document on September 30th, which contained the handover of the old imperial city.

Unlike other patricians, Dietrich stuck to the Lutheran creed, which led the new French rulers to take tough measures. In 1685 he was ordered to Paris and urged by François Michel Le Tellier de Louvois to convert to Catholicism. When he refused, he was exiled to Guéret and later to Vésoul and was only allowed to return to Strasbourg in 1689.

The Alsatian industrial family De Dietrich emerged from his marriage to Ursula Wencker .

literature

  • Louis Spach: Dominique Dietrich, ammeistre de Strasbourg . Paris & Strasbourg 1857 (digitized version)
  • Louis Spach: Biographies alsaciennes , Vol. 1 (Strasbourg 1863)
  • Ludwig Spach:  Dietrich, Dominicus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 193 f.
  • Ludwig Kuebler: Dominicus Dietrich's activity in the service of the city of Strasbourg 1660-1666 . In: Alsatian Monthly for History and Folklore 1911, 3–32
  • Paul Wentzcke:  Dietrich, Dominicus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 693 ( digitized version ).
  • Thierry Sarmant, Hervé Lemoigne: "Les douces violences": Dominique Dietrich et la politique religieuse de la monarchie à Strasbourg, 1681-1694 . In: Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français 146/2, 2000, 367-390

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Filippo Ranieri : Biographical Repertory of Jurists in the Old Kingdom, 16.-18. Century, Volume 4 . 1990, p. 373.
  2. ↑ This episode is taken up in Friedrich Lienhard's novel Oberlin (1910).
personal data
SURNAME Dietrich, Dominikus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dietrich, Dominicus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ammeister of Strasbourg
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1620
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1692
Place of death Strasbourg