Johann Domann

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Johann Domann (born May 2, 1564 in Osnabrück , † September 20, 1618 in The Hague ) was the Hanseatic Syndic, a German statesman, politician and poet before the start of the Thirty Years' War .

biography

Domann came from a middle-class family with no assets; He had to interrupt his law studies , which he had started at the University of Rostock , for lack of money to support his parents with the income from a job as vice-principal of a school in Lemgo . 1591 he received his doctorate at the University of Helmstedt Dr. iur.

Domann was first sub-syndic in 1596 and then syndic of the Hanseatic city of Stralsund in 1598 . In 1605, the mayor of Lübeck Heinrich Brockes enforced Domann's appointment as syndic of the Hanseatic League. The office had not been filled again since the death of its outstanding first bearer Heinrich Sudermann . In 1605 Domann was still negotiating for the Hanseatic League with King Karl IX. of Sweden. In 1606 he went on a long legation trip to Spain with his patron Heinrich Brockes . With two other ambassadors from Danzig and Hamburg they concluded in Madrid at the court of King Philip the Elder. III. Spain signed a trade agreement between the Hanseatic cities and Spain. After some friction, he subsequently submitted his resignation and was until further notice in the Hanseatic City of Rostock . Hanseatic diplomacy, however, could not do without Domann. In 1612 he traveled again with Brockes to the Netherlands and in 1616 concluded the alliance of the Hanseatic cities with the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands . After he was reappointed as syndic in May 1618, he died during a legation trip negotiating the joint action of the cities and the Netherlands against King Christian IV of Denmark in The Hague, where he was also buried.

In the following years the office of the Hanseatic Syndic was provided by one of the Syndici of the City Council of Lübeck as a suburb of the Hanseatic League. Domann himself was additionally appointed to the syndicus of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck in 1618 ; his area of ​​responsibility was initially taken over by the Lübeck syndicus Johann Faber .

On behalf of the cities, he created a current version of the applicable maritime law , which he submitted as a draft in 1611 and adopted by the Hanseatic Day in 1614 as the honorable Hanseatic cities ship regulations and maritime law .

During Domann's time as in -house counsel, Colonel Friedrich zu Solms-Rödelheim was employed as the military leader of the joint defense alliance, especially of the Wendish cities, who also had the technical supervision of the jointly employed fortress builder Johan van Valckenburgh from the Netherlands.

Works

  • Defense document for his homeland Westphalia 1591 (Against the mockery of Justus Lipsius )
  • Nice new song from the old Teudtschen Hansa, in the tone of Rolandes, Anno 1618.

literature

  • Jörgen Bracker (Hrsg.): The Hanseatic League - Reality and Myth , 2 vols., Hamburg 1989. In: Catalog of the exhibition of the Museum for Hamburg History in Hamburg August 24th - November 24th 1989 . 4th edition of the text, Schmidt-Römhild , Lübeck 2006.
  • Philippe Dollinger : The Hanseatic League . 5th edition, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3520371057 .
  • Hermann Kellenbenz :  Domann, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 65 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Wilhelm Mantels :  Domann, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 323 f.
  • Hermann Queckenstedt: A "highly respectable and highly valued her". On the biography of Hansesyndikus Johannes Domann , who comes from Osnabrück , in: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen (OsnMitt) 97, 1992, p. 53
  • Hermann Queckenstedt: Johannes Domann (1564-1618) and the decline of the Hanseatic League. Diplomacy and crisis management in the early 17th century , in: Hansische Geschichtsblätter (HGBll) 111, 1993, p. 43
  • Johannes L. Schippmann (ed.): Historical rooms: Osnabrück and the Hanseatic League. Catalog, Osnabrück 2006. ISBN 3929979799

Remarks

  1. ^ Entry by Johann Domann in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ † 1591
  3. ^ Dollinger, p. 433, speaks of an interruption of one year.

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personal data
SURNAME Domann, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Doman, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jurist and syndic of the Hanseatic League
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1564
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1618
Place of death The hague