Gerhard Kleinsorgen

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Gerhard Kleinsorgen also Gerhard von Kleinsorgen (* 1530 in Bielefeld , † 1591 in Werl ) was an electoral Cologne scholarly councilor for the Duchy of Westphalia and a historian.

Life

Kleinsorgen came from a respected patrician family from Lemgo . Because the family adhered to the Catholic faith, they had to leave the city. Kleinsorgen received his high school education in Hildesheim from 1542 . Since 1548 he studied in Cologne law . He graduated with a degree in both rights.

After graduation, Kleinsorgen became chairman or official of the spiritual court in Werl. Because he married Frau von Brandis, he gave up the clerical office and in 1556 became electoral councilor for the Duchy of Westphalia with its official seat in Werl. There he was also Kalandsherr in 1559 . In 1564 he took part in the coronation of Emperor Maximilian II .

In 1571 he is mentioned as the feudal owner of the Burgmannshof am Kletterpoth in Werl. Kleinsorgen had the previously burned down building rebuilt. He later received more possessions by the electors, so the after the death of Rabans Hoerde home fallen owned in Bad Salzuflen and the court Wickede .

In 1572, Kleinsorgen became Kaspar von Fürstenberg's lawyer in his efforts to inherit the noble lords of Grafschaft . After Kleinsorgen resigned, the relationship between the two was clouded.

At first, the relationship between Kleinsorgen and the new Elector Gebhard Truchsess was good. He even accompanied him to the peace negotiations between Spain and the Netherlands in Cologne. During the peace congress, Kleinsorgen spoke for the Spanish Catholic side. In 1581, the elector commissioned Kleinsorgen to set up a Jesuit school in Werl. Because of the confusion that followed, the project did not come to fruition.

Kleinsorgen disapproved of the conversion of Elector Gebhard Truchsess to Protestantism, his marriage to Agnes von Mansfeld in 1582 and his attempt to transform the clerical into a secular principality. The councilors in the Duchy of Westphalia, including small worries, refused to support the elector. Instead of them, new councils were set up. Both sides met at the Arnsberg state parliament of 1583. Along with Hermann von Hatzfeld and Caspar von Fürstenberg, Kleinsorgen was one of the spokesmen for the Catholic side.

The tension with Truchsess led to the fact that after the Landtag in Arnsberg from 1583 Kleinsorgen fled to Menden . There lived the Amtsdrost Eberhard zu Solms-Lich , who was also the Landdrost of the Duchy and was on the side of the Catholic party. Kleinsorgen later fled to Dortmund outside the elector's sphere of influence. His home was confiscated and a lawsuit was brought, but no verdict was found. In Dortmund small worries frequented humanist circles.

After the failure of Truchsess, Kleinsorgen entered the service of the new Elector Ernst von Bayern as a councilor . He then played an important role in the Geseke state parliament . He was involved in procuring Elector Ernst also the bishopric in Münster. After the battle of Werl he was one of the hostages of Martin Schenk von Nideggen and was released after paying a ransom.

The Kleinsorgenring in Werl is named after the patrician family.

Act

He wrote a ten-part Westphalian Church History ( Ecclesiastica Historia Westfaliae ), of which nine parts were printed. This work was partly a basis for the Monumenta Paderbornensia . For his Westphalian church history, Kleinsorgen drew on numerous different types of sources, such as letters, documents, autobiographies, but also grave inscriptions. The period covered begins around 700 and ends in the printed ninth volume in 1577, in the handwritten 10th volume in 1583.

It used to be assumed that he would have written a report on the time of Gebhard von Truchsess ( Diarium historiae Truchsessianae ) and a history of the Counts of Lippe . These works were initially only written by hand, the church history works were not printed until about 200 years later, in 1779/1780. A print of the alleged history of the Lippe Count's House cannot be proven. A more recent dissertation comes to the conclusion that the report on the time of Truchsess must have been written not by Kleinsorgen, but by the Werler pastor Johann Ungsbeck († 1666) on the basis of the previously unknown 10th book of church history and other contemporary sources, because The otherwise very important diaries of Kaspar von Fürstenberg are no longer available in the Herdringen archive for this time, of all times, which is at least remarkable. There are also well-founded doubts about the authorship of the Count von der Lippe by Kleinsorgens, because this story probably never existed. The assumption of authorship is a misunderstanding of a statement by Kleinsorgenschen in church history concerning a Bremen bishop from the noble lords of Lippe.

Works

  • Church history of Westphalia, and neighboring places ... - Vol. III md Title: Diary of Gerhard Truchses Archbishop of Cologne. [1]
  • Church history of Westphalen, and neighboring Oertern. Vol II . Münster 1779 ( limited preview in the Google book search - reprint: "With some chronological notes illuminated by the Friars Minor Conventuals").

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Location of the street (google maps)
  2. ↑ Kirschbaum, p. 15
personal data
SURNAME Kleinsorgen, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION electoral official and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1530
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH 1591
Place of death Werl