Johann Georg Rollwag

Johann Georg Rollwag

Johann Georg Rollwag (en) (born March 31, 1579 in Heilbronn ; † November 7, 1647 there ) was Mayor of Heilbronn from 1622 to 1647 .

Life

He was the son of the parish administrator Christoph Rollwag, who in 1571 was awarded the coat of arms with a sloping bar covered by three silver rings in a golden shield.

In 1610 Johann Georg Rollwag belonged to the small inner council (“von den burgern”), was tax master in 1617 and from 1622 mayor. When Frederick V defeated Tilly in the Battle of Mingolsheim in 1622 , he needed bread for his troops. Heilbronn was supposed to send 10,000 loaves of bread, but the city was unable to do so. To mediate, the council sent the mayors Rollwag and Conrad Spölin . Heilbronn only had to partially comply with the general's request. It is thanks to Rollwag that Heilbronn survived the Thirty Years' War relatively well, because he showed great diplomatic skills in dealing with the besiegers of the imperial city.

His first marriage was to Katharina Wolff and had a daughter with her: Anna Magdalena. She later married Johann Heinrich Calw, the brother of the mayor Sebastian Calw . Rollwag married Euphr in his second marriage. Beyhl. After Rollwag's death, she married the mayor Ludwig Trapp von Trappensee .

Rollwagstraße in Heilbronn is named after Johann Georg Rollwag to this day .

literature

• Herbert Schmolz and Hubert Weckbach: Heilbronn - History and Life of a City in Pictures , Konrad-Verlag, Heilbronn 1973, No. 167.
• Bernd Klagholz: Heilbronn and its mayors in the period from the 16th to the 19th century (approval work), Tübingen 1980, p. 48.