Hans Hanstein

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Hans Hanstein (also Hanstheun, Hansteyn ) was a Dresden councilor and mayor in the 16th century .

Little is known about his origin and his life. Hanstein was a citizen of Dresden and was first elected to the council in 1504. There he should take over the office of city ​​judge . The council order of 1470 stipulated that each of the three changing councils (governing, seated and dormant council) should appoint a judge for life so that there are always three judges. The administration was incumbent on one of the two judges who did not belong to the currently ruling council. The election to the city council was considered an honor and duty, which the elected person was not allowed to violate or reject. Since Hanstein refused to take over the office of judge, he lost his seat on the council and had to give up citizenship in Dresden.

Later, however, he seems to have got it back, as he is mentioned again as councilor from 1511. From 1517 he held the office of treasurer and from 1519 that of master builder. In 1520 Hanstein was elected the ruling mayor. Three years later he was last mentioned in this capacity in the council register.

He is also named as the founder in a certificate. In connection with the new building of the church of the Bartholomäus Hospital from 1519 to 1521 he donated a cross for the interior decoration.

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. ^ Otto Richter: Constitutional and Administrative History of the City of Dresden , Volume 1, Verlag W. Baensch, Dresden 1885, p. 120.
  2. ↑ Heinrich Kramm: Studies on the upper classes of the central German cities in the 16th century: Saxony, Thuringia, Anhalt , in Mitteldeutsche Forschungen, Volume 87, Böhlau Verlag, 1981, ISBN 978-3-412-04880-8 , p. 296
  3. ↑ 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, p. 187. ISBN 9783865831637
predecessor Office successor
  Donat Conrad (1519, 1522) Mayor of Dresden
1520 , 1523 		  Greger Byner (1521, 1524)
personal data
SURNAME Hanstein, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 'Hanstheun, Hanns; Hansteyn, Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dresden councilor and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH before 1504
DATE OF DEATH after 1523