Hans Khun

Hans Khun (also Kuhn, Khune ; † 1587 in Dresden ) was a Dresden councilor and mayor .

Life

Political activity

Coat of arms of Dresden mayor Hans Kuhn (Privilege Book of the City of Dresden, 1584)

Hans Khun was a member of the Dresden Council from 1556. In 1561 he was elected for the first time as the ruling mayor and exercised this office in the three-year rhythm of the ruling - sitting - resting mayor according to the council regulations of 1470 until his death in 1587.

As part of his council activity, Khun campaigned for the economic strengthening of the city of Dresden, in particular for the staple rights granted . This led to conflicts with neighboring Pirna , especially since Khun had campaigned for the creation of a salt chamber in Kötzschenbroda (see the old pharmacy there ) and Pirna lost the income from the lucrative salt trade . In 1584, the Council of Pirna complained to the elector about this and called for stricter control of the salt trade in the Dresden area.

At times, Hans Khun also held the Dresden Bridge Office and was thus responsible for the administration of the bridge office funds and the maintenance of the Dresden Elbe Bridge . Although the bridge office accounts from the last years of his term in office (1573–1587) are missing, there seem to have been irregularities during this period. After Khun's death, a comparison was made between Khun's heirs and his widow's new husband.

family

Khun was married and left a widow on his death in 1587, who shortly afterwards married Paul Pein. His son Georg acquired Dresden citizenship in 1600 and was also a member of the city council from 1618. He died on April 4, 1624.

A dispute between Hans Khun and the electoral bird maker Hans Zach is guaranteed from a rescript of July 2, 1575. Khun had publicly insulted and beaten the bird operator and his heavily pregnant wife during an argument in the alley near the Kreuzkirche and had both thrown in prison. After the elector had been informed of the rude actions against his official, he had Mayor Khun thrown into dungeon. Khun was only allowed to leave the prison after paying a fine of 50 thalers.

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. ↑ Johannes Falke: The history of the Elector August of Saxony: in a national economy relationship , Verlag S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1868, p. 303.
2. ^ Wilhelm Schäfer: Chronicle of the Dresden Elbbrücke, together with the annals of the greatest Elbe floods from the earliest to the most recent times . Adler & Dietze, Dresden 1848, p. 46 ( digitized in Google book search).
3. ^ Otto Richter: Constitutional and Administrative History of the City of Dresden , Volume 1, Verlag W. Baensch, Dresden 1885, p. 429.
4. ^ Karl von Weber : Anna Churfürstin zu Sachsen: born from a royal tribe in Denmark - a life and moral picture from the 16th century , 1865, p. 256/257.

predecessor	Office	successor
Anton Thurler (1560, 1563) Christoph Kentman (1565) Bastian Wick (1568) Hans Walther (1571, 1574, 1577, 1580, 1583, 1586)	Mayor of Dresden 1561 , 1564 , 1566 , 1569 , 1572 , 1575 , 1578 , 1581 , 1584 , 1587	Christoph Kentman (1562, 1565) Marcus Fuchs (1567, 1570, 1573) Hans Hase (1576, 1579, 1582, 1585, 1588)