Hans Plansdorf

Hans Plansdorf (also Planßdorf , Blansdorff ) was an incumbent Dresden councilor and mayor at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century .

Life

According to old council files, Hans Plansdorf came from "von der Jahne", which means the region of the Jahna valley between Döbeln and Riesa . Nothing is known about his family origins and his profession. Plansdorf acquired Dresden citizenship in 1573. His son Johannes is mentioned in 1596 as a pupil of the Meißner St. Afra-Schule and is listed in the register of the Wittenberg University in May 1600 .

From 1579 Plansdorf belonged to the Dresden Council. In 1589 he was arbitrarily appointed as mayor by Elector Christian I against the will of the council. Since all mayors remained in their office for life and alternated between ruling, seated and dormant mayors, Plansdorf also held the office of governing mayor in 1592, 1595, 1598, 1601 and 1604. In the following year it is recorded for the last time in the council line.

Through his role as mayor, Plansdorf was involved in numerous important decisions in the city. So he refused u. a. together with the two other mayors Bastian Kröß and Elias Vogel, the elector asked for a new town hall. The reason was the city's high debt after the construction of the new Kreuzkirche tower from 1579 to 1584. After the sovereign agreed to support the construction financially, the foundation stone was laid in August 1591 on Neumarkt . However, as the council's funds were insufficient despite all the donations and the provision of building materials, work was stopped on January 22, 1592 at its request.

In 1595 the council of Dresden, which at that time was headed by Hans Plansdorf, published a new ordinance "how it should be kept here with the citizens with traditional costumes, clothing, engagements, weddings, baptisms, funerals and other things" . This was intended to limit excessive luxury and indulgence in the citizenry. The document signed on November 18, 1595 in Torgau by the Elector's administrator was announced on December 16 and gives an insight into the social conditions of the aspiring middle class and the resulting conflicts with the court. A document dated September 27, 1593 proves that the mayors were also active in the field of poor and sick care. In it, Hans Plansdorf and Bastian Kers intercede for a needy to enable him to be admitted to the Jacobshospital .

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. ↑ Viktor Hantzsch: Dresdner at universities from the 14th to the 17th century , in: Mitteilungen des Verein für Geschichte Dresdens, Volume 19, Verlag W. Baensch, 1906, p. 82
2. ↑ The Court and the City: Confrontation, Coexistence and Integration in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times , 9th Symposium of the Residences Commission of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Ed .: Werner Paravicini, Jörg Wettlaufer, Historical Commission for Saxony-Anhalt, Verlag Thorbecke , 2006, ISBN 978-3-79954-521-1 , p. 60.
3. ^ Martin B. Lindau: History of the capital and residence city of Dresden from the earliest to the present time , Volume 1, Verlag Kuntze, 1858, p. 610
4. ↑ Martin B. Lindau: History of the capital and residence city of Dresden from the earliest to the present time , Volume 1, Verlag Kuntze, 1858, p. 40.
5. ↑ Alexandra-Kathrin Stanislaw-Kemenah: Hospitals in Dresden: from the change of an institution , in: Schriften zur Sächsischen Geschichte und Volkskunde, Volume 24, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2008, ISBN 9783865831637 , p. 397.

predecessor	Office	successor
Hans Hase (1588) Bastian Kröß (1591, 1594, 1597, 1600) Jakob Lehmann (1603)	Mayor of Dresden 1589, 1592, 1595, 1598, 1601, 1604	Elias Vogel (1590, 1593, 1596) Jonas Möstel (1599, 1602, 1605)