Leonhard Merz

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Leonhard Merz (also Lienhard Merz ) (* before 1450 in St. Gallen ; † 1507 ibid) was a mayor of St. Gallen ( Switzerland ).

Life

Leonhard Merz was born as the son of Leonhard Merz of the same name, member of the weavers' guild , town clerk and councilor .

He worked as a powder maker and member of the weavers' guild, in 1465 he became a 911 and from 1465 to 1673 he was a guild master.

Merz was a councilor from 1473 to 1476. During the Burgundian War in 1476 he led a St. Gallen troop contingent, which was under the command of the Zurich Hans Waldmann . 1479 he was Stadtammann unanimously to succeed Mayor and 1490 Ulrich Varnbiiler chosen that during the St. Galler war had fled from the Confederates. Until 1492 he alternated with Caspar Rugg and Walter Küchenmeister, from 1492 to 1497 alternated with Caspar Rugg and Hans Rainsperg, and from 1498 to 1502 with Niklaus Roth and Johannes Schenkle and from 1503 to 1505 with Caspar Rugg and Hans Bränders every three years alternately mayor , former mayor and imperial bailiff , and from 1491 to 1507 he was captain of the Panner .

After the St. Gallen War he was sent as the city's delegate to the peace negotiations in Einsiedeln , which were concluded on March 8, 1490 and in which it was agreed that the city of St. Gallen would pay 14,000 guilders in damages to its expatriates (citizens who lived in the surrounding area, but enjoyed city rights) were released from city citizenship and had to surrender their rights to Oberberg Castle with the courts of Oberdorf and Andwil as well as Steinach , which ended the expansion of the city into the surrounding area.

Leonhard Merz later prevented an escalation of the tense situation in St. Gallen during the uprising of February 10, 1491 (“nonsensical Thursday”), when conspirators planned to attack and dismiss the council.

Leonhard Merz was married. His son of the same name, Leonhard Merz, studied law at the University of Rostock and became a judge in Magdeburg . His brothers Hans and Augustin Merz also studied and obtained a doctorate.

literature

  • August Naef : Chronicle or Memories of the City and Landscape of St. Gallen. With the epitome of the related Appenzell events. From the oldest to the more recent. Friedrich Schulthess, Zurich, Scheitlin, St. Gallen 1867, pp. 64, 215, 369, 522 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guild Constitution of the City of St. Gallen. Retrieved December 26, 2018 .
  2. ^ Josef Anton Henne: The Swiss Chronicle, second book . 1833 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed December 26, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Merz, Leonhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Merz, Lienhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Mayor
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH 1507
Place of death St. Gallen