Konrad Krafft

Konrad Krafft (* around 1479 / 1486 in Ulm , † 24. August 1519 ) was a lawyer, württembergischer Council , 1507/1508 to 1513 one of the three judges of the Swabian League and 1516-1519 parish priest in Ulm.

Life

origin

Konrad Krafft, doctor of secular (imperial) law, came from one of the leading families in the patriciate of the imperial city of Ulm. His father was probably Konrad Krafft the Elder (before 1440 - after 1467) and not, as is sometimes stated, Magnus Krafft. Konrad's predecessor as Ulm city pastor, the doctor of both rights Ulrich Krafft, a son of the Ulm mayor Magnus Krafft and his wife Verena Neithart, is therefore usually referred to as his cousin. Konrad Krafft's date of birth has not been passed down.

education

In the summer semester of 1499 he began, as is usually the case, at the age of 12 to 14 years, studying at the Artistic Faculty of the University of Vienna , where he received his master's degree in the winter semester of 1501/1502. In the winter semester 1505/1506 he was enrolled in the matriculation of the Vienna Faculty of Law, but then soon moved to Italy to continue his law studies and in 1508 was awarded the title of "artium et legum doctor", a doctoral degree customary in Italy for a doctorate in secular matters Law, to the University of Tübingen .

Offices

The motive for his enrollment there on April 6th of this year was probably his election in 1507/1508 as one of the three judges of the Swabian Federation alongside the lawyers Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522) and Heinrich Winkelhofer (1478-1526) after his predecessor Johannes Streler alias Sträler had given up his judicial office after disputes over the amount of his salary. Since the federal court had its permanent seat in Tübingen at this time and the federal judges were subject to a residence obligation at the meeting place, it was advantageous for Konrad Krafft to at least enjoy the privileges of the university there.

In addition, during this time (until autumn 1516) he was counsel for Duke Ulrichs von Württemberg and also devoted himself to legal practice and probably also to work as a private lecturer alongside the six paid professors of the law faculty. When his fellow judge Heinrich Winkelhofer changed from the low-paid professorship for institutions in secular law to a chair for canon law around 1508/1509, the university preferred him to the doctor of both rights Johannes Hemminger for this chair. After the Federal Court was relocated from Tübingen to Augsburg in February 1513 after Württemberg left the Swabian Confederation , he and the other two judges resigned from his office in the previous month.

As compensation for the abandoned judicial office, Krafft became canon of the Heilig-Kreuz-Stift in Stuttgart on August 4, 1514 . The prerequisite was that he had been ordained a priest in the meantime .

Preacher at the Ulm Minster

After the death of his presumed cousin Ulrich Krafft, he was elected as his successor in office as pastor at Ulm Minster on April 18, 1516 and gave up his canon prerogatives in Stuttgart that same year.

As far as has survived, his relatively extensive legal and official practice is well documented biographically. Particularly noteworthy are his "pulpit war" from December 1516 to 1517/1518 against the mendicant monasteries in Ulm on the question of parish compulsory, from December 18, 1517 to 1519 the contestation of the duties imposed by the city of Ulm by the clergy and in 1517 a sermon against the Indulgence preacher Johann Tetzel (1465–1519). Not much longer than three years after taking office as Ulm city pastor, Krafft died in his fourth decade on August 24, 1519, at a time when Duke Ulrich von Württemberg, who had been expelled from the Swabian Federation, was trying in vain to recapture his duchy. The date of Krafft's death results from the epitaph in the Ulm Minster.

literature

• Horst Carl : The Swabian Federation 1488–1534 . (= Writings on Southwest German Regional Studies, Volume 24), DRW-Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2000, ISBN 3-87181-424-5 , pp. 297, 392–394, 399–401.
• Oliver Auge : Stift biographies. The clerics of the Stuttgart Holy Cross Monastery 1250–1552 . (= Writings on Southwest German Regional Studies, Volume 38), DRW-Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2002, ISBN 978-3-7995-5238-7 , pp. 321–323 (No. 79).
• Karl Konrad Finke : Konrad Krafft (around 1486 or 1479 to 1519) . In: The Professors of the Tübingen Faculty of Law (1477-1535) , edited by Karl Konrad Finke (= Tübingen professor catalog, volume 1,2), Jan Thorbecke publishing house , Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7995-5452-7 , p. 171 -176.