Lampert Distelmeyer

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Portrait of Lampert Distelmeier based on Martin Friedrich Seidel's picture collection

Lampert Distelmeyer , also Lamprecht Distelmeyer (born February 22, 1522 in Leipzig , † October 12, 1588 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and Chancellor of the Mark Brandenburg .

Life

Distelmeyer was the son of a tailor . He attended the Thomas School in Leipzig . After graduating from high school, Distelmeyer began to study theology in Leipzig , but then switched to law studies in 1542 . In 1545 he worked for Chancellor Simon Pistorius in Merseburg , but returned to Leipzig in 1546 to expand his studies. After working in Bautzen and returning to Leipzig again, he did his doctorate there and was appointed to the law faculty in 1550 .

He married in 1550 and a short time later went to Berlin to work with the Elector of the Mark Brandenburg Joachim II. He was able to draw attention to himself in various embassies and businesses that he named Johann Weinlob as his successor after the death of the then Chancellor in 1558 has been. Together with Adam von Trott , Eustachius von Schlieben and Matthias von Saldern , he was one of the elector's closest confidants. 1569 finally elevated him to the Elector in the knighthood . In that year he obtained from the Polish King Sigismund II the lean-to of the Brandenburg Hohenzollern with the Duchy of Prussia . In what was then the village of Mahlsdorf , he was welcomed as patron saint.

After his death, one of his eight children, the then electoral councilor Christian Distelmeyer , followed him to the Chancellery. His daughter Elisabeth married the royal Swedish lieutenant colonel Jakob von Pfuel , Herr auf Ziethen and Ranft . On a side wall of the nave in the old parish church of Mahlsdorf , opposite the pulpit, reliefs with the coat of arms of the Distelmeyer family are depicted on an epitaph from the beginning of the 17th century .

In 1722 his life was described in detail by Jacob Paul von Gundling .

Monument group 21 in the former Berlin Siegesallee . Central statue: Elector Johann Georg . The secondary characters show Count Rochus zu Lynar (left); and on the right the Chancellor Lampert Distelmeyer

Bust in the Siegesallee

For the former Berliner Siegesallee , the sculptor Martin Wolff designed a marble bust of Distelmeyer as a side figure of monument group 21 to the central statue for Elector Johann Georg , unveiled on December 18, 1901. As a sign of his office, Distelmeyer wears the electoral seal ring on his chest he a medallion portrait of George. His services to the feudal lending to Prussia are presumably represented by a sealed document in his left hand.

Web links

Commons : Lampert Distelmeyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Footnotes

  1. ^ Ingo Materna , Wolfgang Ribbe (ed.): Brandenburg history . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-05-002508-5 , pp. 283 f .
  2. ↑ Diplomatic messages from noble families, as that v. Puddle . Intelligence comtoir; Hahmannsche Buchhandlung; Beygangische Buchhandlung, 1791, p. 109.
  3. ↑ From the flyer on the old parish church in Mahlsdorf, 2012
  4. ↑ Uta Lehnert: The Kaiser and the Siegesallee. Réclame Royale . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-496-01189-0 , p. 178
personal data
SURNAME Distelmeyer, Lampert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Distelmeyer, Lamprecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and Chancellor of the Mark Brandenburg
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1522
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1588
Place of death Berlin