Erwin Hartrad

Erwin Hartrad († 1410 in Frankfurt am Main ), called the boy , was mayor of the imperial city of Frankfurt am Main.

origin

The Hartrad family originally came from Dieburg in the Dreieich , where a lay judge Hartrad and a Heinrich Hartradi (probably his son) are documented as early as 1254 . She came to Frankfurt in the middle of the 14th century, where she became related to some of the most important Frankfurt families of the late Middle Ages, such as the Knoblauch , Weiß von Limburg, Frosch and Faut von Monsberg families , organized in the Alten-Limpurg patrician society.

Erwin Hartrad's father, Erwin Hartrad zum Dorrenbaum (first mentioned in 1346), was a wealthy Frankfurt citizen whose ancestral home was on the dry tree at Kornmarkt. Of his children, Katherine († 1366) was married to the patrician Henne Drutmann, Lever († after 1417) his first marriage to the nobleman Dietrich Hune, and his second marriage to Werner Faut von Monsberg. An Erwin Hartrad attested to as a conductor at St. Kathrinen in 1391 and 1392 could, provided he was not with Erwin the Elder. J. is the same person whose older brother was; Another brother or nephew was probably Henne (Johann) Hartrad, called Krone (last mentioned in 1432), who after Erwin's death is one of the guardians of his daughter Adelheid.

Live and act

Erwin Hartrad the Elder J. himself appears for the first time in the Frankfurt register of residents from 1387 and has been mentioned as a Frankfurt councilor since 1392. Since March 1395 he has been a lay judge; In 1398 he was named as a member of the Frankfurt Regional Court during negotiations between Frankfurt and the cities of Friedberg and Gelnhausen . In the same year he was deputy mayor, in the period of office 1400/1401 he was then representative of Heinrich Weiß zum Weißen as second (younger) mayor. When the city council decided in 1401 to replace the dilapidated old town hall by the cathedral with a new building on Römerberg, it appointed Erwin Hartrad the Elder. J. to the builder , so the representative of the council, who was supposed to push the planning forward. In fact, a model was made that same year and a shipload of stone blocks was procured from Miltenberg. A little later, however, the project seems to have been dropped; Since 1402, the city's arithmetic book has only recorded smaller expenses for the project, and in 1405 an inexpensive alternative was found with the purchase of the Haus zum Römer and its conversion into a conference room.

In 1402 Erwin was elected First (Senior) Mayor of the Imperial City of Frankfurt; During his one-year term of office, the city council founded the first Frankfurt bank, the Wessils . In the following years Erwin represented the city of Frankfurt several times as envoy at imperial assemblies; In 1404 he is, together with the councilor Clas Landskron, the first caretaker known by name of the Nikolai Church on the Römerberg . In December 1408 and from January to March 1409 Erwin Hartrad acted as deputy Reichsschultheiß (for Rudolf von Sachsenhausen) and still officiated as a lay judge until November 1409. He died in 1410.

Erwin the Elder had heard from a wife from the patrician family of the Faut von Monsberg who was not known by name. J. a daughter Adelheid (Elchin, † 1423) who is married to Henne Frosch. Erwin's son Henne Hartrad († before 1438) came from a second marriage.

Web links

• On the history of Hartrad von Dieburg