Georg Bodecker

Georg Bodecker (* 1550 ; † 1618 in Dresden ) was an electoral Saxon civil servant and Dresden councilor and mayor .

Life

family

Georg Bodecker was the son of Duke August's mouth cook , Jobst Bodecker. His father had received Dresden citizenship in 1548 and was a member of the council from 1563. Georg also became a citizen of the city in 1585. As an electoral chamber clerk, he enjoyed a high reputation. In 1578 he was awarded a letter of arms . On June 11, 1594 there was a so-called “coat of arms improvement”, at the same time Georg was raised to the imperial nobility together with his brother Hans . The coat of arms awarded to Bodecker, which his descendants were later allowed to use, showed in blue the head and torso of a Turk whose turban was pierced by an arrow.

Political activity

As a civil servant and chamber clerk for the Saxon electors, Bodecker belonged to the court chancellery and was a. a. involved in the investigation against the Saxon Chancellor Nikolaus Krell . Krell was arrested in 1591 at the instigation of the Lutheran forces under the pretext of cryptocalvinism and executed in Dresden in 1601. In 1597 Bodecker is mentioned for the first time as a member of the Dresden Council and was initially city judge. A year later he became the headmaster of the Bartholomäus Hospital , one of the three large Dresden hospitals. Historical sources in the council archives show that Bodecker noticed significant omissions of his deceased predecessor Nicol Droß after taking office. He had failed to create correct hospital bills and inventory registers. In addition, “some supplies of money, grain density, kitchen food and other things were missing, with the exception of three cows ...” . Bodecker therefore tried to get regulation by the Droß heirs, but ultimately without success.

In 1607 he was elected one of three mayors of Dresden and after the change of governing - seated - resting mayors provided for in the council regulations, he held this office again in 1610, 1613 and 1616. A year later he is listed for the last time in the councilors' register.

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. ↑ Deutsches Adelsarchiv (Ed.): Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Verlag CA Starke, 1958, p. 40
2. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German Adels Lexicon , Volume 1 (Aa - Boyve), Verlag Voigt, 1859, p. 506
3. ↑ ^{a b} Johann Rudolf Kiesling , Valentin Ernst Löscher : Continuation of the Historia motuum of the blessed Mr. D. Valentin Ernst Löscher between the Evangelical Lutheran and Reformed , Dresden, 1770, p. 18 (online)
4. ↑ Alexandra-Kathrin Stanislaw-Kemenah: Hospitals in Dresden: from the change of an institution , in: Schriften zur Sächsischen Geschichte und Volkskunde, Volume 24, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2008, ISBN 9783865831637 , p. 193.

predecessor	Office	successor
Jakob Lehmann (1606, 1609, 1612, 1615)	Mayor of Dresden 1607, 1610, 1613, 1616	Hans Hillger (1608, 1611, 1614, 1617)