Heinrich Has

Heinrich Has (also Heinrich Haas von Laufen or Heinrich Has von Lauffen ) († around 1562) was an imperial councilor to Charles V and in the 1550s president of the government of the Duchy of Luxembourg .

Life

Heinrich Has came from Laufen BL . He earned a doctorate in law and initially worked in the service of the episcopal Strasbourg from around 1522. From 1534 to 1538 worked as Chancellor in Zweibrücken and subsequently in Heidelberg as a member of the Palatinate Court Council and Chancellor. He was envoy of the Elector Palatinate to the Reichstag. He was appointed to a close colleague of Emperor Charles V and in 1550 at the latest to the Reichshofrat .

The Hasenrat , named after Has, was a politically effective assembly in the southern German cities of the Holy Roman Empire since the 16th century . Emperor Charles V had made the guild constitutions in the cities responsible for the spread of the Reformation and therefore smashed the existing council constitutions and the like. a. in Ulm and Augsburg and replaced these oligarchic patrician councils, which he liked, and who were recruited from the urban and catholic upper classes . Heinrich Has then introduced this type of council constitution in 20 other imperial cities on behalf of the emperor in 1551/1552.

In the 1550s he was President of the Government of Luxembourg and helped to strengthen the imperial power in the Duchy of Luxembourg . After Charles V abdicated, he retired to Zweibrücken in 1555.

Individual evidence

^ Alfred Hartmann: The Amerbach correspondence: The letters 1544-1547 , p. 410
^ Historical Association of the Palatinate: Communications of the Historical Association of the Palatinate, Volumes 21-25 , 1897. P. 286
↑ Eberhard Naujoks (ed.), Emperor Karl V and the guild constitution. Selected files on the constitutional changes in the Upper German imperial cities (1547–1556) (= publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Series A: Sources. Vol. 36). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1985.

personal data
SURNAME	Has, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Heinrich Hass; Heinrich Haas; Heinrich Hase; Heinrich Haas von Laufen; Heinrich Has von Lauffen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and imperial council
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH	around 1562

[1] Alfred Hartmann: The Amerbach correspondence: The letters 1544-1547 , p. 410

[2] Historical Association of the Palatinate: Communications of the Historical Association of the Palatinate, Volumes 21-25 , 1897. P. 286

[3] Eberhard Naujoks (ed.), Emperor Karl V and the guild constitution. Selected files on the constitutional changes in the Upper German imperial cities (1547–1556) (= publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Series A: Sources. Vol. 36). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1985.