Hans Reinicke
Hans Reinicke , also Johannes Reinecke , Johann Reineck , Reineke , Reinick (* around 1483 in Mansfeld ; † July 15, 1538 in Nordhausen ) was a smelter in Mansfeld and promoted the Reformation as one of Martin Luther's best friends .
Life
Origin and family
Hans Reinicke was the son of the distinguished smelter and mountain bailiff Peter Reinicke and the grandson of Claus Reinicke from Thal-Mansfeld. The family shafts were near Möllendorf and in the vicinity of those of Hans Luder , Martin Luther's father.
A Walpurgis Reinicke (born April 23, 1512 in Mansfeld; † January 11/12, 1548), possibly a daughter of Hans Reinicke, married the mayor of Wittenberg, Ambrosius Reuter, in 1531. Another daughter (Ursula?) Married Philipp Gluenspies in 1528, a very respected citizen of Mansfeld who was on friendly terms with the reformers (especially Philipp Melanchthon ) and who himself held the rhetoric chair at the Wittenberg University for a while. The daughter Anna Reinicke was married to the mayor of Nordhausen Michael Meyenburg . The son Martin Reinicke (approx. 1505–1551) also a hut owner and mountain bailiff, married Margarethe Lutterodt (1512–1569) from Wernigerode.
A sister of Hans Reinicke married the Reformation promoter Nicolaus Oemler , whose son Georg (called Aemilius) was sponsored by Philipp Schwarzerdt called Melanchthon .
A close friend of Luther
Reinicke was a good friend of Martin Luther, and in 1497 he attended the secondary school with him, the Magdeburg Cathedral School in the city of Magdeburg, which was led by the brothers who lived together . Around the end of 1511, Reinicke, who was then probably 28, married Ursula Zöberitz from Halle (around 1496–1536), who was only 15 . An attempt to prevent the marriage before the marriage failed.
Hans Reinicke turned to mining and, after completing his studies, succeeded him in the management of his father's hut.
The hut families were the first in Mansfeld to acknowledge Luther. In a letter dated March 25, 1520, Luther sent the Mansfeld preacher Martin Seligmann greetings to Johann and Wilhelm Reinick. Wilhelm Reinicke, perhaps a brother of Hans, was mentioned in the mining records from 1511. Hans Reinicke also supposedly accompanied his friend Luther on the way to the Diet in Worms in 1521 .
As a rich smelter, Hans Reinicke received as a believer in Count Hoyer VI. von Mansfeld († 1540) "almost all of the properties between the Vorwerk Möllendorf and the town of Tal-Mansfeld, plus the fiefdom Gut Meisberg near Hettstedt (1522)". The count "first put together a small inheritance from a number of lands [...] and [left] it to his creditor [...] to settle the debts."
Reinicke's position in the peasants' war has never been considered. However, there can be no doubt about his attitude. When Thomas Müntzer wrote the rebellious manifesto to the Mansfeld mountain journeymen (i.e. Reinicke's subordinates) in 1525, it was about to be or not to be. As is well known, Luther takes the side of the haves. In 1529 Reinicke controls the entire Saiger trade at the Silberhütte in Thal-Mansfeld.
On June 1, 1530, Reinicke visited Luther at the Veste Coburg , from where he observed the Diet of Augsburg. Shortly afterwards, Hans Reinicke reported to his friend in a letter (no longer preserved) about the death of his father Hans Luther on May 31, 1530.
Termination of the leases
In the fire and inheritance division of 1536, the entire mine property (45 Erbfeuer and 50 Herrenfeuer of the Mansfeld and Eisleben mountains) was divided among the five counts' lines. The counts no longer renewed the lease agreements for the Herrenfeuer, which had expired in 1535, but took control of the fires themselves. In the place of the smelter, at least since 1536, or even earlier, the Count employed factors (civil servants). By 1560, the counts had acquired all lords and hereditary fires with duress and disenfranchisement. The spokesman against this termination of the Herrenfeuer was Hans Reinicke. His wife Ursula died at exactly this time.
Old age and death
After the death of his wife, Hans lived in Nordhausen, in the house of his son-in-law Michael Meyenburg , where he also met the doctor Janus Cornarius, who dedicated a medical work to him in Basel in March 1536.
Hans Reinicke died on July 15, 1538 in the house of his son-in-law. In addition to his daughters, he left three sons Hieronymus, Christoph and Albertus.
literature
- Heinrich Kramm: Studies on the upper classes of the central German cities in the 16th century (= Central German research, volume 87). Volume I, Böhlau, Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-412-04880-1
- Ulf Sauter: In Martin Luther's footsteps in Stolberg / Harz. Personalities from the family and business environment of Luther in Stolberg / Harz. Insights into the development of the Reformation. Stolberg / Harz, self-published, 2016, pp. 125–132.
swell
- ↑ Melanchthon's letter to Gluenspies from 1528
- ↑ Kramm, pp. 509f.
- ^ Letter from Luther to Melanchthon of June 2, 1530
- ↑ Kramm, p. 114
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reinicke, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reinecke, Johannes; Reineck, Johann; Reinick, Johann; Reineke, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hüttenmeister in Mansfeld, friend of Luther |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1483 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | unsure: Mansfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 15, 1538 |
| Place of death | Nordhausen |