Johann Martin Baur von Eysseneck

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Johann Martin Baur von Eysseneck (1577–1644)

Johann Martin Baur , since 1616 Baur von Esseneck (born July 14, 1577 in Frankfurt am Main ; † August 4, 1634 ibid) was an Imperial Councilor and witness , that is, the highest military official, of the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt am Main. In the Fettmilch uprising on November 27, 1614, he arrested the rioters around Vinzenz Fettmilch . In 1615 he became the junior mayor , and since January 17, 1616 he was the city ​​councilor and thus the city's highest judicial officer.

Life

Baur was born in Frankfurt as the son of the book printer and clerk of the white women monastery Martin Baur (1535–1598) who had immigrated from Vienna . His mother was Martin Baur's third wife Elisabeth Wolf von Rosenbach. Divorce . In 1598 he acquired Frankfurt citizenship and in 1599 became the administrator of the White Women's Monastery, which since the Reformation had been a municipal foundation “to provide for local needy virgins and widows of the Lutheran creed”.

In 1612 Baur became one of the 18 council members who were additionally elected from the citizenry according to the civil contract of December 21, 1612. The aim of the civil contract was to end the previous dominance of the old Limpurg patrician society in the council by not filling the council seats that became vacant due to death in the following years until the council had the constitutional number of 43 members again. Shortly after his election, Baur was appointed witness responsible for the administration of the municipal war equipment stored in the armories .

In the summer of 1614, the fat milk revolt came to a head. In May 1614, the rebels forced the 43 former council members to resign by force, thereby breaking the civil contract and openly opposing the emperor. As a result, there was a polarization in the bourgeoisie between moderate forces, mainly merchants, lawyers and doctors, and radicals, especially journeymen. The radicals initially took the initiative. On August 22nd, a looting mob marched through Frankfurt's Judengasse , as the Jews were held responsible for the city's high level of debt. Two Jews and one of the attackers were killed in the riots, and the property damage amounted to more than 170,000 guilders . The next day the rioters forced the expulsion of all 1,380 Jews from Frankfurt. The emperor, patron of the Frankfurt Jews, then had the imperial ban proclaimed on October 8th for Vinzenz Fettmilch and for the carpenter Konrad Gerngroß and the tailor Konrad Schopp, who were considered to be the ringleaders of the uprising.

The revolutionaries now lost support in the bourgeoisie, who feared for the imperial privileges that formed the basis of Frankfurt's economic life. Johann Martin Baur resolutely took the lead among the moderate citizens and personally arrested the leaders of Fettmilch on November 27 and 28 at the head of an armed city guard. In 1615 he became the younger mayor of the city, on January 17, 1616 he was the city councilor. The lifelong office of the city school was the highest and most respected office in the city judiciary and associated with the title of imperial council .

For his resolute and prudent action in suppressing the Fettmilch uprising, Emperor Matthias raised him to hereditary nobility on October 1, 1616. He chose the Eysseneck suffix after his grandmother.

Baur was married twice: in 1597 he married Katharina Elisabeth Heckbacher, wid. Braun , 1616 Catharina Fleischbein used. Fisherman . By his second marriage he was a member of the patrician society Zum Frauenstein , and in 1622 an honorary member of the society Alten Limpurg . Eysseneckstrasse in the north end reminds of him .

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SURNAME Baur von Eysseneck, Johann Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baur, Johann Martin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Imperial Councilor and Mayor
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1577
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1634
Place of death Frankfurt am Main