Jörg Calwer

Jörg Calwer (actually Georg Metzger ; * 1548 in Tübingen ; † 1618 there ) was a Württemberg judge, hospital nurse and mayor of Tübingen.

Life

Jörg Calwer was a son of the mayor Melchior Metzger , called Calwer († 1563), and his second wife Geneve geb. Hauenberger († 1568). Since his father changed his family name in 1556, his family name was also changed. He was born with Maria Salome Jügerin (or huntress) († 1597) married.

Jörg Calwer worked as a hospital nurse in 1571. Since the same year he was the Tübingen city judge; In 1595 he was replaced as judge by his brother Jacob Calwer . From 1589 (or a little earlier) until at least 1592 he was mayor of Tübingen. In Tübingen he owned the house at Am Markt 11 with today's market tavern, and in 1582 his brother Jacob Calwer bought the house at Am Markt 13 from Junker Burkhard von Bondorf, in which the Mayer's pharmacy had already been set up in 1569.

In 1589 Calwer bought a farm in Weilheim from Barbara Fessler for 2205 fl .

As an old man around 1615, Calwer had taken out a loan of 50 fl from a Jew from Pfäffing , for which he paid two pfennigs interest a week until it was repaid. In doing so, Calwer had violated the Württemberg state order, which defined lending money and pawnbroking by ducal subjects to Jewish lenders as a punishable offense. Against his threatened harsh punishment with imprisonment and expulsion from the country, the Tübingen councilors opposed the Duke that instead of the fixed punishment, given the old age of the accused and his merits as a former public official, only a fine of 10 florins should be demanded or he should be pardoned entirely, which the Duke finally approved. The local lord of Pfäffingen, Hans von Validlingen , was instructed to expel the Jews who had given Calwer credit quickly, because his property was a fief of Württemberg and therefore no Jew was to be tolerated there.

Appreciation

The Tübingen Calwerstraße is named after his father and him.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Rudolf Seigel: judgment and advice ... . P. 248
2. ↑ Reinhold Rau: On the history of the Tübingen pharmacies on the market square from Tübinger Blätter 56, year 1969, pp. 15–26: Page 130 ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 306 kB), Page 131 ( Memento of February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 408 kB) and page 132 ( Memento of February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 343 kB)
3. ^ Rolf Kiessling, Anke Sczesny: Rooms and Paths: Jewish History in the Old Reich, 1300-1800, Akademie Verlag, 2007
4. ↑ Main State Archives Stuttgart, A 206, Bü 4722.
5. ^ Address book Tübingen from 1977.

literature

• Rudolf Seigel: Court and Council in Tübingen. From the beginnings to the introduction of the municipal constitution 1818–1822 , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1960 (= publication of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg)