Donat Conrad

Donat Conrad , in Latin Donatus Conradi (born before 1479; died after 1524) was a German politician, Dresden councilor and mayor .

Life

Little is known about the life of Donat Conrad, who appears in various documents under the Latinized name Donatus Conradi . On July 23, 1479, he was first mentioned in the city register in connection with an inheritance matter. In it he transferred his grandmother's inheritance to his uncle. In 1486 the sale of a field belonging to him in Tolkewitz to Mayor Nickel Seidel is documented. In the same year he is named as the owner of a house on Kleine Webergasse . He also owned a piece of land on Pirnische Gasse.

Political activity

From 1486 Conrad belonged to the Dresden Council and took over the office of treasurer there three years later . In 1499 he was first named as the lord of the lords and was responsible for collecting city taxes as well as collecting the inheritance and capital interest . He is mentioned in 1505 as a bridge master and in this context renewed a foundation to the Jacobshospital , confirmed by one of his predecessors .

In 1503 Donat Conrad was elected mayor and held this office every three years according to the council regulations of 1470. He was last mentioned as a councilor in 1524.

In addition to his work on the council, Conrad was also head of the Kreuzkirche together with Heinrich Kannengießer . After the building was destroyed in the town fire in 1491, Duke Georg von Sachsen looked after it on November 13, 1491 together with three other council members with the supervision of the income and expenses for the reconstruction.

literature

• Sieglinde Richter-Nickel: The venerable council of Dresden , in: Dresdner Geschichtsbuch No. 5, Dresden City Museum (ed.); DZA Verlag for Culture and Science, Altenburg 1999, ISBN 3-9806602-1-4 .
• Otto Richter : Constitutional and administrative history of the city of Dresden , Volume 1, Verlag W. Baensch, Dresden 1885.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Thomas Kübler, Jörg Oberste (ed.): The city books of Dresden (1404–1535) and Altendresdens (1412–1528) , Volume 2, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86583-212-2 .
2. ^ Martin Bernhard Lindau: History of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden: from the oldest times to the present. Publishing house R. v. Grumbkow, Dresden 1885, p. 248.
3. ^ Martin B. Lindau: History of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden: from the oldest times to the present . Publishing house R. v. Grumbkow, Dresden 1885, p. 231.

predecessor	Office	successor
Hans Schmeißer (1502) Matthes Koler (1505, 1509, 1512, 1515) Greger Byner (1518, 1521)	Mayor of Dresden 1503 , 1506 , 1510 , 1513 , 1516 , 1519 , 1522	Heinrich Kannengießer (1504) Jacof Crewl (1507) Martin Schreyer (1511, 1514, 1517) Hans Hanstein (1520, 1523)