Jakob Lehmann

Jakob Lehmann , also Jacob Lehmann (* before 1569; † 1621 in Dresden ) was a German councilor and Dresden mayor .

Life

Lehmann came from a middle-class Dresden family and also acquired citizenship in 1569. Nothing is known about his professional activity. He married the daughter of the mayor of Torgau , Andreas Schultze, Maria Magdalena. Their daughter Anna Magdalena Lehmann (* October 28, 1611; † March 11, 1680) was married to the Freiberg councilor and town clerk Johann Drabitius from 1637 . Her tombstone is in the Freiberg town church St. Petri . In 1608 Lehmann acquired the estate of the local judge Michael Borisch in the nearby village of Plauen .

From 1592 Lehmann was a member of the Dresden Council and was elected mayor for the first time in 1603. He took over this office in the usual three-year cycle until 1618. In the following year he was mentioned for the last time in the council register and died in 1621.

literature

• Sieglinde Richter-Nickel: The venerable council of Dresden , in: Dresdner Geschichtsbuch No. 5, Dresden City Museum (ed.); DZA Verlag for Culture and Science, Altenburg 1999, ISBN 3-9806602-1-4 .
• Otto Richter: Constitutional and administrative history of the city of Dresden , Volume 1, Verlag W. Baensch, Dresden 1885.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Family and History , Volume 1, Issues 1–11, Verlag Degener & Company, 1992, p. 248.
2. ^ Adolf Hantzsch : History of the village of Plauen near Dresden , Plauen, 1880, p. 28.

predecessor	Office	successor
Jonas Möstel (1602, 1605) Hans Hillger (1608, 1611, 1614, 1617)	Mayor of Dresden 1603, 1606, 1609, 1612, 1615, 1618	Hans Plansdorf (1604) Georg Bodecker (1607, 1610, 1613, 1616) Siegmund Otto (1619)