Hermann Bartels (Mayor)

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Hermann Bartels (born August 31, 1559 in Hanover ; † November 25, 1635 ibid) was a German land rentmeister in the Principality of Calenberg and mayor of Hanover.

Life

family

Due to the early death of his first two wives, both of whom came from the von Wintheim noble family from Hanover, Hermann Bartels was married three times:

  1. first marriage to Ilse von Wintheim († 1598),
  2. in the second turn with an Ilse von Wintheim († around 1605) and
  3. in third with Magdalena von Rode (also: von Roden ), a granddaughter of Heinrich von Roden .

A great-grandson of Hermann Bartels was Hermann von Sode from the patrician family [vom] Soden , who later also became mayor .

Career

The citizen Hermann Bartels was elected to the council of the city of Hanover in 1594 , which at that time had about 6,000 inhabitants within the old city fortifications . In the city council, Bartels held the office of "exchange master" for several years , who was responsible for the municipal mint and the exchange of the numerous coins in circulation in the Middle Ages .

In 1599, Bartels was appointed land rent master of the Principality of Calenberg by his sovereign , Heinrich Julius (Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel) , an office he held until 1621 after the beginning of the Thirty Years' War . Around two years later, Bartels was elected mayor of the city of Hanover. He held this office alternately with Jacobus Bünting until 1632 .

During his time as mayor, Bartels administered a town that suffered plague epidemics in 1624 and 1626 , and to which around a third of the town's residents fell victim. Also in 1624, dated May 31, the market church of Hanover was fitted with a weathercock , which had the coat of arms of Hermann Bartels with the cock's head next to the inscription "Salvete posteri" (= "Greetings, descendants!").

In 1625, due to the Thirty Years' War, Danish troops from King Christian IV. Quartered in Hanover. When the city was to be occupied again in 1628, this time by the imperial troops of Ferdinand II , the citizens of the city under Mayor Bartels were able to avert this fate with a contribution of 12,000 thalers .

Epitaph and coat of arms

In 1632, the year his third wife died, Hermann Bartels bought a burial place for his wife and himself in the choir of the Marktkirche. An epitaph with the depiction of the mayor is said to have been on the Aegidienkirche . It showed, above the person kneeling in front of a cross, the coats of arms of his wives' families, the three rings (the upper one of which was open at the top) for the von Wintheim family and the patrician glove for the von Roden family . At the foot of the epitaph was the coat of arms of the Bartels with a rooster head.

The epitaph was destroyed by the air raids on Hanover in World War II.

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Klaus Mlynek: BARTELS, (3) Hermann (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b c d Sabine Wehking: DI 36, No. 309 † (see web links)
  3. ↑ see Sabine Wehking: DI 36, No. 137 † , short vita and description of the epitaph in: www.inschriften.net (Deutsche Insschriften Online)
  4. ↑ Sabine Wehking: DI 36, No. 282 † , in: www.inschriften.net
personal data
SURNAME Bartels, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1559
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1635
Place of death Hanover