Henning Brandis (Mayor)

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Henning Brandis (born March 22, 1454 in Hildesheim ; died March 29, 1529 in Hanover ) was a German local politician , Hildesheim mayor and historian .

Life

Henning Brandis was a member of a very wealthy Hildesheim family and was born the son of the cloth merchant Hans Brandis (1415–1481) and Ilsebe (died 1477), daughter of Henning Winkelmann. His older brother Tilo Brandis later became provost of the Holy Cross in Hildesheim.

Due to his prudence and moderation as well as the wealth of his family, Brandis gained access to all offices of the city of Hildesheim at an early age. Elected mayor, he won the victory at Bleckenstedt at the time of the Braunschweig town feud in 1493 . However, after he intended a coin reform in 1501 and a scandal about a dowry aroused the indignation of the citizens in his relatives, and in this dispute Brandi's brother Tilo also called the Roman Rota , the excitement among the residents of Hildesheim grew so strong that both Brothers had to leave town. The dispute only ended with a settlement in 1516.

During the Hildesheim collegiate feud , due to the general need, the citizens were forced to re-elect Henning Brandis as mayor. But he could not avert the unfortunate outcome of the feud and finally had to leave Hildesheim forever.

From the age of 18 until 1528, Henning Brandis recorded everything that he considered remarkable "chronically in his diaries". This so-called “Binnen- und Butenbok” stands out among other contemporary chronicles “by its immediacy, reliability and clarity”. The original font is no longer available, but Brandis' son Tile Brandis compiled his father's notes from 1513 and added his own experiences from 1528. Like his father's records, those of Tile Brandis are believed to be reliable.

Henning Brandis is said to have been buried in the chapel of Our Lady of the Market Church next to his father-in-law Hans Blome ; In fact, however, it is probably due to the former St. Anne's Chapel, which was attached to the market church and where Blome and his granddaughter Dorothea Garßen were buried.

family

Brandis married Anna von Alten (died 1478) on September 17, 1476 . On January 2, 1480, he entered into another marriage with Geseke Breier (died 1507). With his wife Adelheid, daughter of the mayor Hans Blome from Hanover , who was married on November 12, 1508 , he had, among other things, sons Joachim Brandis the Elder (1516–1597), who had been elected mayor of Hildesheim several times, and Tile Brandis (1511–1566 ), who died of the plague ).

Fonts

  • Brandisiense diarium

literature

  • Ludwig Haenselmann (Ed.): Henning Brandis: Hildesheim Stories from the Years 1471–1528 Unchanged reprint of the first edition Hildesheim, Gerstenberg, 1896. Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 1994, ISBN 3-8067-8580-5
  • Hans Schlotter: housefather and mayor Henning Brandis (= Hildesheim family history , episode 39). In: From home: Supplement to the Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung. Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 1974
  • German Biographical Encyclopedia , Volume 2 (1995), p. 65

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b o. V .: Brandis, Henning in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of January 14, 2016, last accessed on July 4, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Rudolf Zoder :  Brandis, Henning. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 525 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Christine Wulf : Article Brandis, Henning . In: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon. Volume 11, p. 279. De Gruyter, 2nd edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-022248-7 .
  4. ↑ Yearbook of the Society for Lower Saxony Church History , Volumes 1–2 (1896), p. 317; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ^ Richard Doebner: Studies on Hildesheim History , Gerstenberg, Hildesheim, 1902, especially p. 79; Digitized from the Technical University of Braunschweig
  6. ^ Sabine Wehking : DI 36, City of Hanover, No. 55 †, 1528 , description and commentary on the inscription on the grave slab on the Deutsche Insschriften Online (DIO) page
personal data
SURNAME Brandis, Henning
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandes, Henning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION City chronicler and several times elected mayor of the city of Hildesheim
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1454
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1529
Place of death Hanover