Henman Offenburg

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Henman Offenburg (1379–1459) businessman, politician, diplomat. The former owner of this house, formerly "Freihof", today Liestal government building. His grave was originally in the choir of the town church. His grave was originally in the choir of the town church. The grave slab was found in the basement of the government building and can be seen on the government building in Liestal. Text above: So one pays (counted) 1558 lar (years). Text right: Uff den Osteroben (April 9th) Edel vest died. Text below: Juncker Heman Offen. Text left: burg Alt Burgermeister (from Basel) Obernvogt zu Varsburg (Farnsburg) dem. Text inside: God have mercy. The "talking coat of arms" of the Offenburg family shows an "open castle"
Grave slab on the right side of the government building in Liestal

Henman Offenburg (* 1379 in Basel ; † 1459 ibid) was a businessman, politician, diplomat and chronicler in Basel.

life and work

Henman Offenburg, son of a pharmacist from a Basel family of Achtburger, worked as a businessman. During the council in Constance he ran a bank. In 1417 King Sigismund , whom he advised on financial matters, gave him a coat of arms and the title of knight . In 1433 Sigismund, who had just been crowned emperor, made him a knight. In 1437 he made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land , where he was made Knight of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .

Henman Offenburg was a member of the Small Council in Basel from 1406 - first as a guild representative, then as a representative of the Achtburger and from 1435 as a knight - until his death and held the dignity of chief guild master four times. In addition, he was entrusted with diplomatic missions several times by his hometown, but also by the Basel Council and by Emperor Sigismund. Due to his Austrian fiefdom, he was temporarily excluded from the council in 1445. During this time he wrote an autobiographical justification in which he reviewed the years 1413 to 1445.

Works

literature

  • Elsanne Gilomen-Schenkel: Henman Offenburg 1379-1459, a Basel diplomat in the service of the city, the council and the empire. Reinhardt, Basel 1975, ISBN 3-7245-0367-9 (= sources and research on Basel history , volume 6).
  • Helen Liebendörfer : The Emperor's New Socks , Reinhardt, Basel 2015 ISBN 978-3-7245-2083-2 (novel)

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personal data
SURNAME Offenburg, Henman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Offenburg, Henman von; Offenburg, Henmann; Offenburg, Hemmann; Offenburg, Heman; Offenburg, Hemman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss businessman, politician, diplomat and chronicler
DATE OF BIRTH 1379
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH 1459
Place of death Basel