List of German Masters

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The Deutschmeister was the Landmeister of the Teutonic Order in Germany. From 1309, with the change of the Grand Master's seat from Venice to Marienburg , the friars in Austria , Bohemia , Hungary , Spain , Italy , Armenia , Sicily and Achaia were placed under the protection of the German Masters.

Surname from to Remarks
Hermann Balk 1219 1230
Lockpick? 1231 1231
Heinrich von Hohenlohe 1232 1242
Berthold von Tannenrode 1243 1245 probably from the family of Tannroda
Albert of Bastheim 1247 1248
Albrecht von Hallenberg 1248 1251
Eberhard von Sayn 1251 1254 see The first counts of Sayn
Dietrich von Grüningen (also: Gröningen) 1254 1256
Conrad of Nuremberg 1257 1264
Werner III. from Battenberg 1264 1272
Gebhard von Hirschberg 1272 1279 see Hirschberger
Matthias (from Lonnich) 1281 1283
Konrad von Feuchtwangen 1284 1290
Zurich of Stetten 1290 1295 first term
Gottfried von Hohenlohe 1296 1297 then on May 3, 1297 in Venice for the 14th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order selected
Johannes de Neszelrid
(Johann von Nesselröden)
(also Nesselrode , Nesselrieden )		 1297 1298 see Nesselröden (noble family)
Siegfried von Feuchtwangen 1298 1303
Winrich von Bosweil 1303 1304
Eberhard von Sulzberg (to Bughein) 1305 1323 (1321)
possible vacancy 1321 1324
Konrad von Gundelfingen 1323 (1324) 1329 Gundelfingen-Hellstein (noble family)
Ulrich von Stetten
(actually Zürch von Stetten)		 1329 1330 second term of office, see Stetten (noble family)
Wolfram von Nellenburg 1329 (1331) 1361
Philipp von Bickenbach 1361 1375 see Bickenbach (noble family)
Gottfried von Hanau 1375 1375 Son Ulrich II. (Lord of Hanau ),
cf. Hanau (noble family)
Johann von Heyn 1376 1379
Konrad Rudt 1379 1382
Siegfried von Venningen 1382 1393 see also Lords of Venningen
Johann von Ketze 1393 1396
Konrad von Egloffstein 1396 1416
Dietrich von Weitershausen 1416 1420
Eberhard von Saunsheim 1420 ?
Eberhard von Stetten 1441/43 1447 see Stetten (noble family)
Jost von Venningen 1447 November 3, 1454 Resignation (resignation) on the chapter to Procelts
Ulrich von Lentersheim May 11, 1455 May 9, 1479 see Lentersheim (noble family) , resignation on the large chapter on Prozelten, † May 22, 1481 in Weißenburg
Reinhard von Neipperg 1479 1489 see Neipperg (noble family)
Andreas von Grumbach
(also Endres von Grumbach )		 before May 26, 1489 1498 see Grumbach (Ministeriale)
Hartmann von Stockheim September 1, 1499 † January 27, 1510 From 1488 to 1494 Komtur zu Horneck. See Stockheim (noble family)
Johann Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden May 12, 1510 † February 17, 1515 see family Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden
Dietrich von Cleen 1515 1526
Walther von Cronberg 1526 1543

After the secularization of the order under the last Grand Master Margrave Albrecht of Brandenburg residing in Prussia in 1525 , the German Master Walther von Cronberg was enfeoffed with the dignity of the Grand Master and Prussia at the Augsburg Reichstag in 1530 by Emperor Charles V.

Since then, the head of the Teutonic Order has held the title of Hoch- und Deutschmeister .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Order signature: JL 425 Bd 1 Qu. 221 Breitenbach Collection in the Baden-Württemberg State Archive ( State Archive Ludwigsburg ), accessed on March 17, 2016
  2. ↑ Archives: Konrad von Nürnberg (died before December 5, 1265), documents in the Baden-Württemberg State Archives (Ludwigsburg State Archives), accessed on March 20, 2016
  3. ↑ archive document JL 425 Bd 1 Qu 103rd : Official task by resignation; in the Baden-Württemberg State Archive (State Archive Ludwigsburg), accessed on March 20, 2016
  4. ↑ Gerhard von Hirschberg's archives in the Baden-Württemberg State Archive (State Archive Ludwigsburg), accessed on March 20, 2016
  5. ↑ documented from 1274 to 1295, also Landkomtur der Kammerballei Koblenz
  6. ^ Archives of the DM Zürch von Stetten in the Baden-Württemberg State Archives (State Archives Ludwigsburg), accessed on March 18, 2016
  7. ↑ Archives of DM Gottfried von Hohenlohe-Weikersheim in the Baden-Württemberg State Archives (Ludwigsburg State Archives), accessed on March 18, 2016
  8. ↑ 1291/97 Komtur auf Beuggen , 1301/02 Landkomtur der Deutschordensballei Franconia , 1314/15 also Landkomtur zu Marburg; from the family of the Lords of Sulzberg with ancestral castle Sulzberg and branch at Sulzberg Castle ( Möttelischloss ) in Switzerland
  9. ↑ a b In the Baden-Württemberg State Archive ( State Archive Ludwigsburg ) there is a collection of historical documents on the German Masters dated 1058–1809: Collection Breitenbach - Eberhard is only kept here until 1321 and is probably also deceased that year
  10. ↑ a b After the reception of Regesten King Ludwig IV and a document from 1323 [RI VII H. 1 n. 51, in: Regesta Imperii Online ] (accessed on March 17, 2016), the opinion is that Konrad will not be able to do so until summer 1324 became German master.
  11. ^ Karl H. Lampe:  Gundelfingen, Konrad von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 314 f. ( Digitized version ).
  12. ↑ Gundelfingen-Hellenstein at www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de , accessed on March 17, 2016
  13. ↑ JL 425 Bd 2 Qu. 1 in the Baden-Württemberg State Archives (State Archives Ludwigsburg), accessed on March 20, 2016
  14. ↑ Johannes Voigt: History of the German Knight Order in its twelve balles in Germany , Volume 1, Berlin 1857, p. 652
  15. ↑ https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/MPZDRUXYY7CMHK7XMQKENZ3J76KY7LFL
  16. ↑ https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/struktur.php?Stock=19231&sprungId=1183074&letztesLimit=suchen
  17. ↑ The newly elected DM Ulrich von Lentersheim was confirmed by Grand Master Ludwig von Ellrichshausen on February 10, 1455: Findbuch Archivalie JL 425 Bd 4 Qu. 39 in the Baden-Württemberg State Archives (State Archives Ludwigsburg), accessed on March 18, 2016
  18. ↑ a b Archival document: JL 425 Bd 4 Qu. 124 in the Baden-Württemberg State Archive (State Archive Ludwigsburg), accessed on March 18, 2016
  19. ↑ Bernhart Jähnig : Lentersheim, Ulrich von . In: Neue Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 14 (1985), p. 219.
  20. ^ Finding aid JL 425: Documents on Endres von Grumbach in the Baden-Württemberg State Archive (State Archive Ludwigsburg), accessed on March 18, 2016
  21. ↑ Elective Chapter in Frankfurt (am Main), 1499 Sept. 1; Presentation of Hartmann von Stockheim, Kt zu Kapfenburg, and Johann Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden, Kt zu Blumenthal, at HM Friedrich von Sachsen, 1499 Sept. 4; Confirmation of DM Hartmann von Stockheim by HM Friedrich von Sachsen, 1499 Oct. 27 in the Baden-Württemberg State Archive (State Archive Ludwigsburg), accessed on March 17, 2016
  22. ^ Death of DM Hartmann von Stockheim zu Horneck, 1510 Jan. 27 in the Baden-Württemberg State Archives (State Archives Ludwigsburg), accessed on March 17, 2016
  23. ^ Volker Zimmermann: Hartmann von Stockheim. Author of a German horse drug book. In: Burghart Wachinger et al. (Hrsg.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd, completely revised edition, volume 3: Gert van der Schüren - Hildegard von Bingen. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1981, ISBN 3-11-007264-5 , Sp. 527-528.
  24. ↑ Elective chapter on Frankfurt am Main Election of Johann Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden, Kt Mgh, to the DM in the Baden-Württemberg State Archives (State Archives Ludwigsburg), accessed on March 17, 2016
  25. ↑ https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/struktur.php?Stock=19231&klassi=001.005& AnzeigeKlassi= 001.005.003

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