Hans Gleinig

Hans Gleinig (also Gleynig, Gleyneck, Gleynigk, Gleinick ; † around 1547 in Dresden ) was a Dresden merchant, councilor and mayor living in the 16th century .

Life

Gleinig came from a family of merchants and was involved in commission trading , which brought him considerable wealth. In 1546 he was the richest man in town with a fortune of 11,320 guilders . He also owned a representative house on the Altmarkt , at the corner of Schloßstraße (Wilsdruffer Straße 2). The building was built at the beginning of the 16th century and was decorated with a bay window on the corner of the house. Gleinig had it decorated with three sandstone sculptures of the Virgin Mary , the Evangelist John and St. Christopher . A Latin inscription translated: Glory to the greatest and best God. Good for the community and for all of us, constant peace and security. Hans Gleinig. Despite several renovations in the 19th century, the house with its Gothic bay was preserved until it was destroyed in 1945 .

In addition to his work as a councilor, Gleinig also acted as a donor who “often used his money for the good of the city”. From 1528 to 1544 he was the hospital master and thus responsible for the maintenance and organization of the Dresden hospitals . In 1534/35 he supplied gold and silver leaves for the design of the new bridge gate house of the Elbe bridge on the Altendresdner side.

Political activity

In 1506 Hans Gleinig joined the Dresden Council and took over the management of the defeat office. The task of this council office was to control the entire movement of goods to Bohemia and to administer the fees accruing from the stacking rights granted on September 17, 1455 . In 1526 Gleinig was elected mayor and exercised this office until 1544 in the usual three-year rhythm of ruling - sitting - resting mayors.

In 1546/47 he was involved in political conflicts and power struggles between Protestant and Catholic forces. In the run-up to the Battle of Mühlberg , the Mayors of Dresden, Hans Gleinig, Peter Byner and Theodoricus Lyndemann, were not averse to the future rule of the Ernestine Electors of Saxony and thus opposed the sovereign Duke Moritz . He therefore had the three councilors tried and interrogated in May 1547. All three received mild sentences and were allowed to keep their offices. Since Hans Gleinig is no longer mentioned in the council register after 1545, he probably died a short time later.

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. ↑ ^{a b} Alexandra-Kathrin Stanislaw-Kemenah: Hospitals in Dresden: From the Change of an Institution , in: Writings on Saxon History and Folklore, Volume 24, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2008, ISBN 9783865831637 , p. 122
2. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt : Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony - City of Dresden , CC Meinhold & Sons, Dresden 1903, p. 634
3. ↑ Stefan Hertzig , Walter May , Henning Prinz: The historical Neumarkt zu Dresden: its history and its buildings , Sandstein-Verlag, Dresden 2005, ISBN 978-3937602462 , p. 157
4. ^ Heinrich Butte: History of Dresden up to the Reformation , in: Mitteldeutsche Forschungen , Volume 54, Böhlau Verlag, 1967, p. 234
5. ^ Christian Ruf: 800 years of Dresden: a journey through time , Edition Sächsische Zeitung, Dresden, 2005, ISBN 9783938325193 , p. 50

predecessor	Office	successor
Wenceslaus Nawmann (1525, 1528) Peter Byner (1531, 1534, 1537, 1540, 1543)	Mayor of Dresden 1526 , 1529 , 1532 , 1535 , 1538 , 1541 , 1544	Greger Byner (1527, 1530, 1533, 1536, 1539) Theodoricus Lyndemann (1542, 1545)