Heinrich Stroband

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Heinrich Stroband

Heinrich Stroband (born November 14, 1548 in Thorn ; † November 20, 1609 ibid) was a German lawyer and first mayor and royal Polish burgrave of Thorn, founder of the Protestant Academic High School in Thorn and co-founder of the codification of Kulm law . Strobandstrasse (today: ul. Mały Garbary) was named after him in Thorn . His tomb and epitaph are in the St. Marienkirche in Thorn.

Life

origin

The patrician Heinrich Stroband was the son of the in Gdansk born Thorner councilman , born Johann Stroband (1511-1585), Erbherrn to low Briesen (Brzezno) and Prussian Lanke, and his wife, the mayor's daughter Margaret Thorner Esken in Thorn. When his father was elected mayor of Thorner in 1551, King Sigismund II August also appointed him burgrave . In 1557 he openly confessed to the Lutheran denomination . In 1569 at the Diet in Lublin he received the Polish indigenous community for himself and his descendants . The family has belonged to the Polish nobility since then . The grandfather Christian Stroband (1482–1531), heir to Niederbriesen, came from a family from the Kurmark, from which Berlin's ruling mayors had emerged since the beginning of the 15th century . The grandfather, the son of a councilor, had settled in Danzig when he was twenty and had done military service under the German Grand Master and Duke Albrecht of Prussia in 1520/1521 in the equestrian war. After the peace he settled at Thorn, where he died as a councilor.

education

After attending school, Heinrich Stroband studied philosophy , law and political science in Frankfurt (Oder) from 1566 , and civil law and canon law in Tübingen from 1568 . Since that time he was interested in ancient history , and from 1570 he studied theology in Wittenberg . He also traveled to Strasbourg and Basel and returned to Thorn in 1574.

Act

In 1578 he became lay judge of the old town court in Thorn, and a little later of the Kulmerland regional court. From 1586 he was a member of the city ​​council as councilor , and in 1587 he was elected mayor and city president. He stayed that way until his death. The Polish king appointed him burgrave of Thorn, which office his father already held. He was also high school councilor in the municipal schools and headed the Thorner consistory .

For Thorn he was one of the most outstanding people at the turn of the sixteenth to the seventeenth centuries. The first phase of his activities was characterized by studies on the Kulm law and the urban educational reform . Thanks to his efforts, the educational level of the Thorner Schule was significantly increased; it changed from six school years, which have a medieval origin, to a modern system with 10 school classes and received the status of a university , which became one of the leading centers of intellectual life in the Kingdom of Prussia . In 1595 Stroband also implemented the proposal to establish the Evangelical Academy in Thorn.

After his appointment to the council of Thorn, he received a significant influence on the functioning of the city. An important element of the activities were Stroband's building projects: Adapting the building to the requirements of the middle school according to the order of a Franciscan monastery , and a dormitory for students was also built. One of the most important implementations is the development of the Old Town Hall .

In 1591 planning began to convert the town's defense system into a modern fortification; the implementation took place in the years 1597–1601. In addition, there was the construction of an armory and the city ​​guard . On his initiative, the Thorner city council set up a first brewery in Wiesenburg near Thorn in 1608 , which brought the city big profits.

family

  • Epitaph of the Stroband family in the St. Marienkirche in Thorn

  • Epitaph of the Stroband family in the St. Marienkirche in Thorn

  • Talking coat of arms of their straw band on the epitaph: In silver a red rose, surrounded by a golden wreath, consisting of two straw bands (= "straw band"). On the black-and-silver puffed piston tournament helmet with black-and-silver helmet covers, two black buffalo horns, each with a silver clasp

Like his father and grandfather, Heinrich Stroband was the heir to Niederbriesen (Brzezno). Most recently, the Elector of Brandenburg appointed him a Privy Councilor . In his marriage to Katharina Soldavin (Soldau), who was born in Danzig, he had 13 children, like his father. Heinrich Stroband's son Christian was secretary to the Polish King Sigismund III. Wasa ; his nephew of the same name was secretary to the Brest voivode Rafal Leszczyński in Lissa. Another son named Heinrich Stroband (around 1570–1620) was also mayor of Thorn, as was his son of the same name (1599–1657).

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Ranft, Der Hoftag in Quedlinburg 973: From the historical roots to the new Europe, 2006, p. 137 f.
  2. ^ A b c Karl Lohmeyer :  Stroband, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 601-603.
  3. ↑ a b Hans Maercker, History of the rural villages and the three smaller towns in the Thorn district, Danzig 1899/1900, p. 208 f.
  4. ^ A b Carl Gotthelf Praetorius: Thorner Ehrentempel or directory of mayors and town councilors , 1832, p. 34 f.
  5. ↑ a b Large complete Universal Lexicon , Volume 40, 1744, p. 996 f.
  6. ↑ a b c d Rudolf Vierhaus, German Biographical Encyclopedia, Volume 9, Munich 2008, p. 781
  7. ↑ a b Michael Müller : Second Reformation and urban autonomy in royal Prussia , 1997, p. 180.
  8. ↑ a b Berlin sexes, panels 1–9, panel 3.
  9. ↑ Ludwig von Baczko : Small writings from the field of history , Volume 1, 1796, p. 207.
personal data
SURNAME Stroband, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and mayor as well as Burgrave von Thorn
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1548
PLACE OF BIRTH Thorn
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1609
Place of death Thorn