Elias Vogel

Elias Vogel (* around 1528 in Marienberg ; † after 1596 in Dresden ) was a Saxon court official, Dresden councilor and mayor .

Life

Origin and family

Vogel came from the Ore Mountains and was born in Marienberg around 1528 (the exact date of birth is unknown). His master's degree indicates a university education. He then entered the service of the sovereign and became court secretary. At the latest since the 1560s he lived with his wife Sybille, nee. Terrible in Dresden, where his daughter Barbara was born in 1566. In 1571 his second daughter Sibylle (1571-1617) was born. She was later the wife of the Electoral Saxon land rent master Matthias Hanitzsch. In 1572 Vogel received the citizenship of Dresden.

Working as an electoral official

The legally educated Magister Elias Vogel was a civil servant in the office of the Saxon sovereign and held the office of an electoral feudal secretary. The feudal administration formed an important area within the state government since the middle of the 16th century and assumed the function of the sovereign as the supreme liege lord. For this reason, the respective feudal secretaries enjoyed a high reputation and had considerable political influence.

Various files and documents prove Vogel's participation in important actions of the state and the elector. In 1585 he was instrumental in the arrest of the noblewoman Sophia von Zaschnitz who was accused of sorcery . On April 20, the Elector issued an order to his liege secretary Elias Vogel “… H.  v. Taubenheim can embroider himself in his house on our hand, but his wife sucks her servants and vf wehn the local dearest more I have said something, and conceived is under arrest kegen Leißnig (to) assume, she (to) keep them differently ... “ The wife of Herr von Taubenheim, who lives in Gut Noschkowitz , had previously been denounced as a“ sorceress ”, and her witchcraft is said to have been directed against the elector himself. Sophia von Zaschnitz was later charged for this and executed in a sensational trial for adultery and witchcraft.

Vogel was also involved in the politically explosive affair surrounding Anna of Saxony , daughter of Elector Moritz . The wife of William I of Orange-Nassau was locked up in a secure room in Dresden Castle in 1576 after separation from her husband and a lengthy legal dispute and had to spend the last months of her life there. After her death in 1577 this chamber was closed again and only opened a year and a half later on the initiative of the Electress. Chamber secretary Jenitz and Magister Elias Vogel, appointed as a notary , took over the supervision and regulation of the estate.

For his services, Elias Vogel was enfeoffed by Elector August with the Thalheim land judge and its income. A commemorative coin for Vogel can be verified from the same year .

Act as councilor and mayor

After 1589 already the Office of the Governing Mayor on the instructions of the Elector Christian I with Hans plan village had been occupied, came with Elias bird and Bastian Kröss the same year two more confidant of the princes of the city council a. With these occupations the influence of the sovereign on urban issues should be further strengthened. Just one year after starting his council membership, Elias Vogel took over the mayor's office and held it again in 1593 and 1596. At the same time, he is listed for the last time in the register of council members. Among the major policy decisions of his tenure, the rejection of the I of Elector Christian required demolition and rebuilding of the Dresdner belonged City Hall . The reason was the high debts of the council that had accrued due to the renovation of the Kreuzkirche . At the request of the three mayors, Plansdorf, Vogel and Kröß, the work that had already started was stopped on January 22, 1592.

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. ^ Local family books online , accessed on August 14, 2014
2. ↑ DNB entry , accessed on August 14, 2014
3. ↑ History of the Lehnhof Dresden ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Main State Archive Dresden , accessed on August 18, 2014  
4. ↑ Saxon Central State Archive Dresden (SächsHSTA DD), LOC 9690, Elector August letter to the Lehnsekretär Elias Vogel of 20 April 1585th
5. ^ Nassauische Annalen: Jahrbuch des Verein für Nassauische Altertumskunde und Geschichtsforschung , Verlag des Verein für Nassauische Altertumskunde und Geschichtsforschung, 1934, p. 139
6. ↑ Friedrich Gottlob Leonhardi : Description of the earth of the electoral and ducal Saxon lands , Volume 2, Verlag JA Barth, 1803, p. 586.
7. ^ Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Erbstein : Numismatic fragments in relation to Saxon history , Verlag der Waltherschen Hofbuchhandlung, Dresden, 1816, p. 58.
8. ^ Martin B. Lindau: History of the capital and residence city of Dresden from the earliest to the present time , Volume 1, Verlag Kuntze, 1858, p. 610.

predecessor	Office	successor
Hans Plansdorf (1589, 1592, 1595)	Mayor of Dresden 1590, 1593, 1596	Bastian Kröß (1591, 1594, 1597)