Hermann of Verden

Hermann von Verden (* around 1110; † August 11, 1167 near Rome ) was Bishop of Verden . Its origin from the Welf ministerial family Behr is rejected by recent research. From 1138 at the latest he was curator in Halberstadt cathedral chapter , later he was also archdeacon there .

After taking up his office as bishop, he found himself involved in disputes with the Corvey abbot Wibald von Stablo over estranged goods and with the archbishop of Bremen Hartwig I. von Stade over the demarcation of the boundary between the two dioceses. The latter are to be seen in connection with Hermann's ambitions to usurp the Slavic mission . He even forged a founding document for the Diocese of Verden, which allegedly went back to Charlemagne , and which awarded it large areas of the East Elbe. After the founding of the Ratzeburg diocese , Hermann renounced these areas.

During his term of office there was still an agreement between Friedrich I Barbarossa and Heinrich the Lion . As a result, Bishop Herrmann, like all Verden bishops under Henry the Lion, was closely tied to the Hohenstaufen court . He therefore saw his most important task in the Reichsdienst. Hermann was one of the emperor's closest advisers. He took part in several Italian expeditions part Barbarossa and was as imperial legate active in Spain and Italy. No Verden bishop ever had such political importance as he.

Ten days after Barbarossa's coronation as emperor, Hermann died on August 11, 1167 near Rome of an epidemic, presumably malaria .

literature

• Karl Ernst Hermann Krause:  Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 157 f.
• Günter Glaeske:  Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 643 ( digitized version ).
• Arend Mindermann: Hermann (from Behr) . In: CVs between the Elbe and Weser. A biographical lexicon . Landscape Association of the Former Duchies of Bremen and Verden, Stade 2002, ISBN 3-931879-08-9 , pp. 134-137
• Florence Tourtual: Bishop Hermann von Verden, 1149–1167 . Münster 1866 ( ULB Münster )
• Thomas Vogtherr (ed.), Chronicon episcoporum Verdensium / Die Chronik der Verdener Bischöfe , Stade 1998, [27] Hermann (1148–1167) p. 96/97
• Otto Wurst, Bishop Hermann von Verden 1148–1167, a personality from the circle of Emperor Friedrich I. Barbarossa , diss. Phil. Vienna, Hildesheim 1972

Individual evidence

1. ^ Criticism of the origin of the von Behr family on www.arendi.de

predecessor	Office	successor
Ditmar II of Plötzkau	Bishop of Verden 1149–1167	Hugo of Verden