Konrad Poll

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Konrad Poll (* around 1240; † between February 24 and May 15, 1305 ) was an Austrian politician and the first documented mayor of Vienna .

Konrad Poll was a wealthy landowner. His father of the same name, a wholesale merchant, came to Vienna via Regensburg , acquired the rule of Vöslau and received a fiefdom in the Wachau . On August 22nd, 1282, Konrad Poll was first named under the name Chunradus Pullo in a certificate of the Vienna Council as Magister Civium . It is believed that Poll was given this office around 1280 when the Habsburgs took over Austria. The Poll patrician family had a young bird ( Latin : pullus ) in their coat of arms. In 1285 Heinrich Hansgraf is named as the new mayor of Vienna , in 1287 Konrad von Eslarn . In the period from 1288 to 1305, however, Konrad Poll took over the office of mayor again, with minor interruptions he kept this until his death. Heinrich Chrannest was his successor . During Poll's tenure, the first city ​​charter for Vienna , written in German, was dated February 12, 1296.

In addition to Konrad Poll himself, his son Niklas Poll also became mayor of Vienna in the years 1313 to 1315 and 1324 to 1327 and his son Berthold Poll in the years 1338 to 1339.

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SURNAME Poll, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pullo, Chunradus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician, Mayor of Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH around 1240
DATE OF DEATH between February 24, 1305 and May 15, 1305