Garlieb Sillem

Garlieb Sillem

Garlieb Sillem ( Garlev Syllm ) (born June 15, 1676 in Hamburg ; † December 26, 1732 ibid) was Licentiate of the Right and Mayor .

Life

Hieronymus Sillem's son attended the Academic Gymnasium for two years and at the end of 1696, instead of a Latin treatise on a classic, published his obligatory answer in which he defended his parents. He then studied law in Frankfurt and Halle and made a trip through Germany, France and the Netherlands. In 1704, again in Hamburg, he was appointed a lawyer and in 1708 a licentiate in law from the University of Franeker .

In the power struggle between Hamburg's citizenship and the council that had been going on since 1650, the imperial commission under Count Damian Hugo Schönborn, which appeared in 1708, mediated the urban entanglements. The citizenship had agreed with their determination that a fourth was to be appointed to the three previous Syndici , and on September 8, 1710 Sillem was elected by the council. He had to take part in the negotiations on the amendment of the city constitution and won the trust of both sides. After the main recession of 1712, things settled down.

In 1711 and 1712 he was also appointed chairman of the medical commission that was newly appointed when the plague broke out .

In 1717 Sillem became mayor. After the imperial ambassador, Count Fuchs, had the Catholic chapel built in 1693 in the legation house renewed in 1719, distrust of the Calvinists and especially of the Roman Catholics reawakened and the population destroyed the chapel, with the legation house also being torn down. Emperor Charles VI. demanded that a solemn deputation should make atonement in Vienna, whereby he also demanded the presence of the presiding mayor.

Sillem, on behalf of the sick chairman of the council, traveled with Barthold Heinrich Brockes and two senior elders to Vienna, where they arrived in May 1721. They succeeded in regaining the imperial grace and negotiated the amount of compensation. The justiziarius Graf Windischgrätz announced that “the city deserved to be completely exterminated”. The deputation returned on October 27th.

In 1723 he was promoted to presiding mayor. On September 2, 1723, he had to represent the council's position in matters of the Schaumburger Hof before the citizenship, which, located in the Hamburg city area, had given rise to disputes with Denmark for a long time.

Funeral music

He seems to have been a friend of poetry. For his funeral ceremony he had composed his last Schwahnen-Gesang himself. It was sung at his funeral in the setting of the cantor Georg Philipp Telemann on January 5, 1733 in the St. Petrikirche in Hamburg . The funeral music is performed to this day.

supporting documents

1. ^ Wilhelm Sillem:  Sillem, Garlieb . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, pp. 324-328.
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2011 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. Hamburg Telemann Society.