Johannes Obernburger
Johannes Obernburger (* around 1486 in Obernburg am Main ; † June 23, 1552 in Villach , Carinthia ) was the chief secretary of the office of Emperor Charles V.
Life
Johann Thomas, the son of a privileged Obernburg family named Schmid (t) called himself Johann Fabris (lat. For blacksmith) as a young scholar , later after he was in the service of the emperor after his hometown Johannes Obernburger. With this name he went down in history.
Career
After his school education he studied theology and jurisprudence ( law ). As a doctor of law , he became a clerk in the imperial chancellery of Emperor Charles V in 1522. As such, he toured the empire with the emperor and accompanied him on numerous campaigns. From him u. a. reported from Valladolid , Madrid , Tunis , Rome , Cremona , Brussels and Leuven .
From a simple clerk he was promoted in 1524 to the registrar, in 1532 at the Diet of Regensburg secretary and in 1537 for senior secretary in the Chancellery of Emperor Charles V. In the Office hierarchy of private secretary stood by Kaiser, the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor fourth. As in some cases the only German in the first ranks of Karl's government, he became an important contact person for all matters relating to the empire and his influence grew ever greater. At the Reichstag in Germany he read out the items that the Kaiser had put on the agenda. In the 19th century it was still assumed that his ancestor Niclas von Obernburg was ennobled; Today it is assumed that Johannes Obernburger himself was raised to the nobility by Emperor Karl.
At the emperor's side he stood in the Schmalkaldic War in 1546/47 but also in the religious conflicts which ultimately led to the emperor's failure and which led to his abdication .
Johannes Obernburger also held a number of church offices in the empire. He was cantor at the collegiate monastery St. Stephan zu Mainz , imperial chaplain and in 1551 became provost of the imperial monastery St. Bartholomäus in Frankfurt am Main . Obernburger led correspondence with well-known personalities of his time, handed down among others with the Fugger family and with numerous princes and bishops of the empire. Correspondence and contacts with well-known reformers such as Martin Bucer and Philipp Melanchthon are documented . Obernburger kept close ties to the Mainz cathedral chapter and the imperial city of Nuremberg throughout his life .
As governor of Carinthia , which he was at the end of his life, he died of the consequences of an accident (lintel). Transferred to his homeland, he was buried together with his brother Peter Obernburger († March 16, 1552), who was the chief executive of the Electoral Mainz registry, in the parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Obernburg.
His nephew Peter Obernburger became Reichshof Secretary under Emperor Maximilian II and was promoted to Reichshofrat under Emperor Rudolf II . These two sons of the city of Obernburg signed and signed documents and letters for three emperors for about fifty years.
On June 24, 1561, his siblings handed over the letter of foundation and the foundation capital for the foundation of a "free school" in Obernburg; every child could attend school for free. Latin was also one of the subjects in which gifted students should be encouraged.
In the old free-standing church tower of the parish church in Obernburg from 1581, a Renaissance epitaph from 1557 commemorates the brothers Johannes and Peter Obernburger in a passage since 1964 .
The city named a street in his honor and the elementary and middle school bears his name. He was awarded a sandstone bust from 1663 at his parents' house at Römerstrasse 26 .
coat of arms
As can be seen on his epitaph in Obernburg and shown in the Aschaffenburg coat of arms book : The coat of arms with a red background shows a gold-crowned silver column with an indicated base but without a capital , which is held by two gold griffins on both sides. The crest consists of two red wings, each covered with a column and shows a golden griffin stump in between. Both allude to the exercise of power by the Habsburgs , where the griffin and the Hercules column are shield holders for the Austrian and Spanish coat of arms.
literature
- Günther Koch: Johannes Obernburger: (1486–1552); imperial secretary, papal notary; Collection of materials for a biography , 2012
- Pleikard Joseph Stumpf: Bavaria: A geographical-statistical-historical manual of the kingdom , Munich 1852, p. 885
Web links
- Johannes Obernburger on the website of the Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Obernburg
- Obernburg coat of arms ( memento from March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in the representation of the Aschaffenburg coat of arms book
- Obernburger epitaph in the church tower in photos of beautiful old coats of arms No. 1747 (private website http://www.welt-der-wappen.de of the heraldist Bernhard Peter)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Year of birth uncertain, older literature references put the date of birth around 1500.
- ↑ Johann Wilhelm Christian Steiner: Antiquities and history of the Bachgau in old Maingau , Volume 1, Aschaffenburg 1821, p. 353, comments on a document from Friedrich von Wasen from 1381 ( online edition )
- ^ Johann Carl von Richard (called Baur von Eyseneck): Wetteravia. Journal for German history and legal antiquities , Volume I, 1st issue, Frankfurt am Main 1828, p. 81 f. ( Online book )
- ↑ Eric Erfurth: Johannes Obernburger .
- ↑ Johannes Obernburger epitaph restored. ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the city of Obernburg am Main , October 16, 2008. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
- ^ Alfred F. Wolfert: Aschaffenburger Wappenbuch , ed .: Geschichts- und Kunstverein Aschaffenburg eV, Aschaffenburg-Goldach 1983, p. 236 and T67-I-5
- ↑ Book of arms by Johannes Baptista Rietstap : Armorial general . Gouda 1884–1887, 4 volumes reprint Lyon (n.d.), Volume 3, p. 333
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Obernburger, Johannes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmid, Johann Thomas; Fabris, Johannes Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | senior secretary of the office of Emperor Karl V. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1486 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Obernburg am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 1552 |
| Place of death | Villach , Carinthia |