Hans Fuchs of Wallburg

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Hans Fuchs von Wallburg († 1553 ) came from the Franconian noble family von Fuchs and was Imperial Governor in Regensburg from 1526 to 1529 .

Reichshauptmann

Hans Fuchs was one of the six imperial governors who looked after the emperor's interests in Regensburg from 1492 to 1555. The Habsburgs thus had a direct influence on developments in the imperial city of Regensburg. This gave them the opportunity to control important traffic axes, to develop Regensburg as the last defensive bastion against an advance by the Ottomans and to set up a bridgehead in the middle of the Wittelsbach territory.

His father, Thomas Fuchs, had already made sure in 1516 that his son could take over the successor as imperial governor in Regensburg. The Regensburg Council was not enthusiastic about this succession plan. From the beginning he endeavored to shake off the imperial influence through the Reichshauptmann. While his father always worked to enforce the emperor's concerns in Regensburg, Hans Fuchs was more interested in his own possessions in the Upper Palatinate. This did not escape King Ferdinand I's , who sought his replacement from 1529. Finally, Hans Fuchs found a successor in Christoph Blarer, who was accepted by the emperor and bought the office from him for a substantial sum of money.

Hardly any events of significance have come down to us for the time when Hans Fuchs held the post of Reichshauptmann. He could have been involved in public activities against the Anabaptists in November 1527 or the year after in the failed restoration of privileges for the Regensburg clergy. In 1528 he was involved in the conviction of the Anabaptist Würtzelburger in every case. When he was executed on October 10, 1528, he was probably no longer present.

further activities

At the end of 1529, when the siege of Vienna by the Turks threatened, he was on behalf of the King of Bohemia and Archduke of Austria, Ferdinand I, on his way to the city of Nuremberg and to Margrave Georg von Brandenburg in Ansbach to ask for their help. After that, his contact with Ferdinand I seems to have broken off. Even before his time as imperial governor had expired, Hans Fuchs took over the office of keeper of Cham , in which he worked until 1537. In later times he maintained contacts with Elector Friedrich von der Pfalz .

Possessions

Hans Fuchs inherited extensive estates from his father in the northern Upper Palatinate ( Schneeberg , Altenschneeberg , Tiefenbach , Frauenstein , Schönsee , Reichenstein and Winklarn ). From the proceeds of the sale of the Reich Governorate, he also acquired Treffelstein . In 1531 he sold the imperial governor's residence in Regensburg to the Council of Regensburg. The Protestant Alumneum was later set up at this point.

In 1527 Hans Fuchs received a feudal letter from Emperor Charles V for the ban on blood and other rights and freedoms in the dominions of Schneeberg, Reichenstein and Schönsee. However, the Wittelsbach Count Palatine did not tolerate the expansion of imperial rule in the east of the Upper Palatinate. On March 16, 1530, he finally submitted to the sovereignty of Elector Ludwig V of the Palatinate .

family

Hans was the son of Thomas Fuchs von Wallburg zu Schneeberg († December 2, 1526) and his first wife Margarete († 1521 in Bad Wildbad).

On April 4, 1529 he married Verena von Schwarzenstein in St. Emmeram . She was the daughter of the Vitztum von Straubing, Sigmund von Schwarzenstein zu Englburg , and Hedwig von Leiningen zu Tegernbach. From this marriage a son and 2 daughters were born:

  • Anna
∞ David Fuchs from Wallburg zu Winklarn and Arnschwang
∞ Andreas Georg von Murach († 1585), Land Marshal of the Upper Palatinate

In his second marriage he was married to Anna Truchseß von Wetzhausen. She was the daughter of Philipp Truchseß von Wetzhausen zu Wetzhausen and Kunigunda von Thüngen .

The Fuchs family from Wallburg zu Schneeberg built a castle in Winklarn in the 16th century to manage their possessions, which is still inhabited today. Hans Friedrich Fuchs von Wallburg, grandson of daughter Anna, had to leave his home forever for reasons of faith after the occupation of Upper Palatinate by the Catholic Duke Maximilian of Bavaria. At the beginning of the Reformation in Regensburg, Thomas Fuchs decided in favor of Luther's evangelical teaching , with whom he had personal contact.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal for Bavarian State History, Review by Peer Frieß
  2. ↑ Short biography of Augustin Würtzelburger
  3. ↑ List of architectural monuments in Regensburg (Am Ölberg 2)
  4. ↑ Emma Mages: Oberviechtach . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria , part of Old Bavaria . Series I, issue 61. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7696-9693-X , p. 99 ( digitized version ).

literature

personal data
SURNAME Fuchs von Wallburg, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuchs, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Imperial Governor of Regensburg
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH 1553