Jobst Kettwig

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Jobst Kettwig (also Kethwig, Fridrich Kötwigk ; † September 30, 1558 in Dresden ) was Dresden city clerk, councilor and mayor in the 16th century .

Life

Kettwig came from Freiberg , as evidenced by a combing invoice from the Dresden council archive. In this the Fuhrmann 1 are  ß , 5  gr. Approved, so the statschreiber be of Freibergk hither gefurt gerethe . In 1543 he came to Dresden and took over the office of chief town clerk. In this function, Kettwig was responsible for drafting important documents and documents and advised the council on legal issues.

In addition to this activity, he was also involved in important political decisions of the sovereign. In 1545, together with the mayors Theodoricus Lyndemann and Peter Byner, as a representative of the city of Dresden, he was a member of the large committee for the collection of building taxes . This was introduced by Duke Georg as a levy from the five largest Saxon cities in order to expand the fortifications against the impending Turkish threat . An extension of this eight-year special tax to all residents including the clergy was confirmed by this committee with the participation of Kettwig and announced on June 17, 1545.

From 1556 he was a member of the Dresden Council and was elected mayor in 1558. Kettwig was also the head of the Maternihospital from 1556 to 1558 . During his reign, the conflicts between the mayor and council on the one hand and the Dresden fortress captain Melchior Hauffe on the other intensified . A memo from 1558 documents an incident on the fringes of a rifle festival, at which Hauffe, known to be quick-tempered, burst into a conversation with the mayor, which led to a tangible argument. In the same year Kettwig died in Dresden.

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. Johannes Falke: On the history of the Saxon estates , communications of the Saxon Antiquities Association Dresden, issues 20-25, 1870, p. 92
  2. Alexandra-Kathrin Stanislaw-Kemenah: Hospitals in Dresden: from the change of an institution , in: Writings on Saxon history and folklore, Volume 24, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2008, ISBN 9783865831637 , p. 122.
  3. ^ Matthias Meinhardt : Dresden in Transition: Space and Population of the City in the Residence Formation Process of the 15th and 16th Centuries in: Hallische Contributions to the History of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age, Akademie-Verlag, 2009, ISBN 9783050040684 , p. 498.
predecessor Office successor
Georg Ruger (1557) Mayor of Dresden
1558
Christoph Kentman (1559)