Hinrich Katzow

Hinrich Katzow , also Heinrich Katzow (* unknown; † before September 1439 perhaps in Rostock ), was a patrician of the Hanseatic city of Rostock and long-time mayor . During his term of office the election of a sixties committee, the forerunner of a citizenry, fell.

Life

Hinrich Katzow came from a patrician family documented in Rostock since the middle of the 14th century. His father was the treasurer Engelbert Katzow († before 1397), his mother the daughter of the Rostock mayor Johann von Kyritz. He owned a fiefdom of the Mecklenburg Duke Albrecht III. and was wealthy. In 1397 he was first mentioned in Rostock as a councilor and in 1402 as "Proconsul". His demeanor was outstanding during the unrest of 1408, in which, following the Lübeck model, the strengthened craft offices wrested a letter from the council. In this, the considerable land ownership of the council families in the Rostock area as well as the gender role and the marriage circle of the leading patrician families was criticized. Katzow was a bitter opponent of all concessions to the craftsmen. Nevertheless, a new council was elected in 1410 with the participation of a so-called sixties committee .

Seal of the University of Rostock from 1419

Hinrich Katzow was one of the signatories of the founding deed of the University of Rostock in 1419 and belonged to the committee headed by the Schwerin bishop Heinrich III. from Wangelin on, which its first rector Petrus Stenbeke appointed. During the period of armed conflicts between Denmark and German sovereigns, as well as those of the Mecklenburg princes with the knighthood and the cities fighting for their imperial freedom , he held important positions in the negotiations at the Hanseatic Days . When in 1426 the Sixties Committee again demanded a citizen's letter for his participation, Katzow, as the mayor, wanted to prevent the confirmation by fleeing the city together with the three other mayors and the council. The regent of Mecklenburg Katharina von Werle and Mecklenburg , with whom Katzow was in feudal feud, tolerated the election of a new council in Rostock, which took place in 1427. The four mayors were ostracized. This and the old council brought proceedings before the Emperor and the Pope, the city in 1431 in Nuremberg with the outlawed occupied. The conflict was settled in 1439 through the mediation of a few Hanseatic cities, the old and new council reconciled and united.

Hinrich Katzow did not live to see the settlement of the dispute. He died between 1438 and 1439, his grave is said to have been in the Marienkirche in Wismar .

literature

Karl Ernst Hermann Krause : Katzow, Hinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 460.
Hildegard Thierfelder : Katzow, Hinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 339 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Literature about Hinrich Katzow in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

↑ His place of death is uncertain; Krause (ADB) speculates: "The damaged corpse stone of a Rostock proconsul Hinrich K. zu St. Marien in Wismar with the family coat of arms (the Wismar city coat of arms) will cover the grave of the restless man, one of the most important of the Hanseatic politicians in the entire first quarter of the 15th century Century "

personal data
SURNAME	Katzow, Hinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Katzow, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Patrician, Mayor of Rostock
DATE OF BIRTH	14th Century
DATE OF DEATH	before September 1439
Place of death	unsure: Rostock

[1] His place of death is uncertain; Krause (ADB) speculates: "The damaged corpse stone of a Rostock proconsul Hinrich K. zu St. Marien in Wismar with the family coat of arms (the Wismar city coat of arms) will cover the grave of the restless man, one of the most important of the Hanseatic politicians in the entire first quarter of the 15th century Century "