Hasso von Wedel-Falkenburg

Hasso von Wedel-Falkenburg (Hasso (II) von Wedel-Falkenburg; † 1378 Falkenburg ), was court master of the Mark Brandenburg and Lusatia.

Wedel was first mentioned during the lifetime of his father Hasso (I) von Wedel-Falkenburg, who died in 1344 at the latest, as a co-owner of Bublitz . He was a grandson of the Brandenburg truchess Ludolf von Wedel and a brother or cousin of Johann von Wedel . Since 1347 Hasso von Wedel appeared as a knight and became, as part of the war against the False Woldemar, on October 27, 1348, Margrave Ludwig together with Hasso von Wedel-Schivelbein and Hasso von Wedel-Polzin Vogt of a district bailiwick in the northern Neumark. During the several months of absence of the margrave since January 1349, he belonged to a circle of about 20 knights who were entrusted with the leadership of the march. He spent almost the entire year 1350 in captivity, from which he was released in November 1350 for the high amount of 590 marks of Brandenburg silver. In 1351 he was involved in negotiations with cities that had submitted to the false Woldemar. In association with the Neumark estates, he succeeded in agreeing a land peace with Duke Barnim of Pomerania , which was approved by Ludwig the Roman on June 14, 1353 .

Ludwig the Roman appointed him in 1354 to be Vogt and captain of all lands over the Oder, a kind of "New Mark sub-regent" (Gerd Heinrich). He was assisted by a council consisting of four councilors from the cities of Arnswalde, Königsberg, Friedeberg and Landsberg and four members of the knighthood: Otto Mörner , Betekin von der Osten , Heinrich von Uchtenhagen and Heinrich von Wedel the Elder.

On May 19, 1355, Ludwig the Roman appointed Wedel court master of the Mark and Lusatia. The margrave undertook not to make a decision without Wedel's consent and authorized him to collect all taxes in town and country. Spangenberg calls him "State Administrator" and describes the phase of his court championship as a state of emergency. Wedel achieved a position "which no other Brandenburg knight had occupied before him" (Cramer). On the part of the margrave, this corresponded to a “subordination bordering on self-incapacitation” (Schultze). What happened is understandable against the background of an extensive disruption of the march caused by the internal war and a knighthood in which high financial claims against the margrave were combined with little trust in his budgetary abilities.

Wedel became the owner of a “reign controlled only by the knighthood” (Schultze), so not autocrat, but exponent of the estates. He was supported by councilors appointed by the margrave. Cities and estates gained a not yet permanent, but significant, share in the state leadership, and a feeling of unity and togetherness arose in the Mark for the first time. Wedel died after he had exercised his office well into the sixties, in 1378 at the Falkenburg, early enough not to experience "the wild turmoil of the coming years, the devastation of the country and the sudden decline of his (.. ) Sex brought about ”(Wedel 1897). One of his descendants was Lupold von Wedel .

literature

• Helga Cramer: The Lords of Wedel in the country over the Oder. Property and rule formation up to 1402. In: Yearbook for the history of Central and East Germany. , Volume 18, Berlin 1969.
• Christian Gahlbeck : On the origin and composition of the Neumark nobility up to the middle of the 14th century. In: Klaus Neitmann (Hrsg.), Sovereign, nobility and cities in the medieval and early modern Neumark. , Berlin 2015, pp. 115–181.
• Curt Gerstenberg: Ludwig the Roman as sole ruler in the Mark Brandenburg [Diss. 1902], Berlin 1902.
• Gerd Heinrich : The 'Free Lords' and the country , pp. 137–150 in: Hartmut Boockmann (Ed.), The beginnings of the corporate representations in Prussia and its neighboring countries . Munich 1992
• Paul von Niessen : Overview of the history of the city. In: Festschrift for the 600th anniversary of the city of Falkenburg Pom. 1333-1933. , Falkenburg in Pommern 1933. pp. 17-28.
• Johannes Schultze : The Mark Brandenburg . Second volume, The Mark under the rule of the Wittelsbachers and Luxembourgers (1319–1415) , Berlin 1961.
• Hans Spangenberg: Court and central administration of the Mark Brandenburg in the Middle Ages. , Leipzig 1908.
• Heinrich von Wedel : Hasso the Rothe von Wedel wedding and knight Hasso II. Von Wedel-Falkenburg. , Berlin 1897.

Individual evidence

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