List of Grand Masters of the Teutonic Order

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Grand Master's coat of arms of the Teutonic Order
Standard of the Grand Masters of the Teutonic Order - replica in the Marienburg

This article chronologically lists the general superiors who are called Hochmeister in the Teutonic Order .

Surname from to Remarks
Master Sibrand 1190 1198 Superior of the Hospital Society
Gerhard 1192 Superior of the Hospital Society
Heinrich 1193 1194 prior
Ulrich 1190 1198 Superior of the Hospital Society
Heinrich 1190 1198 1196 named as praeceptor, probably identical to Heinrich Walpot von Bassenheim
1. Heinrich Walpot von Bassenheim 1198 1200 First Grand Master of the Knightly Order
2. Otto von Kerpen 1200 1208 July 8, 1208
3. Heinrich von Tunna called Bart 1208 1209
4. Hermann von Salza 1209 1239 Buried at Barletta
5. Conrad of Thuringia 1239 1240 Buried in the Elisabeth Church in Marburg
6. Gerhard von Malberg 1240 1244 Converted to the Knights Templar
7. Heinrich von Hohenlohe 1244 1249
8. Gunther von Wüllersleben 1249 1252
9. Poppo from Easter 1252 1256 From 1264 Commander in Regensburg; † June 12, 1267
10. Anno of Sangerhausen 1256 1273
11. Hartmann von Heldrungen 1273 1282
12. Burchard von Schwanden 1283 1290
13. Konrad von Feuchtwangen 1291 1296 Relocated the Grand Master's seat to Venice
14. Gottfried von Hohenlohe 1297 1303 Resignation
15. Siegfried von Feuchtwangen 1303 1311 In 1309 he moved his seat to Marienburg on the Nogat. Buried in the Kulmsee Cathedral
16. Karl of Trier 1311 1324 Buried in the order chapel in Trier
17. Werner von Orselen 1324 1330 Was murdered
18. Luther of Braunschweig 1331 1335 Buried in the Königsberg Cathedral
19. Dietrich von Altenburg 1335 1341 Buried in the Annenkapelle on the Marienburg
20. Ludolf König von Wattzau 1342 1345 Buried in the Annenkapelle of the Marienburg
21. Heinrich Dusemer 1345 1351 Buried in the Annenkapelle of the Marienburg
22. Winrich von Kniprode 1351 1382 Buried in the Annenkapelle of the Marienburg
23. Konrad Zöllner von Rotenstein 1382 1390
24. Konrad von Wallenrode 1391 1393
25. Konrad von Jungingen 1393 1407
26. Ulrich von Jungingen 1407 1410 At the instigation of the Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło, buried in the Marienburg Annenkapelle after the battle of Tannenberg
27. Heinrich von Plauen 1410 1413 Forced to resign; died in Lochstädt in 1429 and was buried in the Annenkapelle of the Marienburg
28. Michael Küchmeister 1414 1422
29. Paul von Rusdorf 1422 1441 Died a week after his resignation and was buried in the Annenkapelle of the Marienburg
30. Konrad von Erlichshausen 1441 1449
31. Ludwig von Erlichshausen 1450 1467
32. Heinrich Reuss von Plauen 1467 1470
33. Heinrich Reffle von Richtenberg 1470 1477
34. Martin Truchsess von Wetzhausen 1477 1489
35. Johann von Tiefen 1489 1497
36. Frederick of Saxony 1498 1510
37. Albrecht of Brandenburg-Ansbach 1511 1525 Secularized the Prussian monastic state to the Duchy of Prussia
38. Walther von Cronberg 1527 1543 In 1530 appointed imperial prince and formally enfeoffed with the religious state, which neither the Holy Roman Empire nor he actually had
39. Wolfgang Schutzbar called Milchling 1543 1566 1544 enfeoffed with Prussia by the emperor at the Reichstag
40. Georg Hund von Wenkheim 1566 1572 Enfeoffed with Prussia by the Emperor at the Reichstag in 1566
41. Heinrich von Bobenhausen 1572 1590 1572 enfeoffed with Prussia by the emperor at the Reichstag. De facto disempowered by coadjutor in 1585, deposed in 1590, died in 1595
42. Maximilian of Austria 1590 1618 Was regent in Inner Austria and Tyrol - from 1585 coadjutor, 1590 grand master and administrator of Prussia. He was a pretender to the Polish crown. He renewed the statutes of the order, as they were out of date and the income was very reduced due to the frequent expenses in defensive battles against Turks. Reichstag in Regensburg 1613 feudal letter of the new Emperor Mathias for Prussia. He was buried in a side chapel of St. Jakob in Innsbruck, the tomb is now inside the successor building of St. Jakob, which was elevated to the cathedral in 1964 .
43. Charles of Austria 1618 1624 Was bishop of Brixen and Wroclaw, was buried in Madrid
44. Johann Eustach von Westernach 1625 1627
45. Johann Kaspar von Stadion 1627 1641 Participation in the Battle of Nördlingen in the Thirty Years War
46. Leopold Wilhelm of Austria 1641 1662 Was multiple bishop and governor of the Spanish Netherlands and was considered a candidate for the empire
47. Karl Joseph of Austria 1662 1664 Was also bishop of Olomouc, Passau and Breslau - was buried in the Capuchin crypt in Vienna
48. Johann Caspar von Ampringen 1664 1684 Was buried in Freudenthal
49. Ludwig Anton of the Palatinate 1684 1694 Was also bishop of Worms
50. Franz Ludwig of the Palatinate-Neuburg 1694 1732 Was elector-archbishop of Mainz; did not make a profession - was buried in the cathedral in Breslau
51. Clemens August of Bavaria 1732 1761 Was elector-archbishop of Cologne and four other bishoprics at the same time - was buried in Cologne Cathedral
52. Charles Alexander of Lorraine 1761 1780 Governor General of the Austrian Netherlands; was buried in Brussels
53. Maximilian Franz of Austria 1780 1801 1769 Coadijutor of the Grand Master - was elector-archbishop of Cologne and prince-bishop of Münster - buried in the Capuchin crypt in Vienna
54. Karl Ludwig of Austria 1801 1804 Resigned from the order and married
55. Anton Viktor of Austria 1804 1835
56. Maximilian Joseph of Austria 1835 1863
57. William of Austria 1863 1894
58. Eugene of Austria 1894 1923 Resignation
59. Bishop Norbert Johann Klein 1923 1933 1916 Bishop of Brno, from 1923 coadjutor of the Grand Master, residence: Freudenthal
60. Abbot Paul Heider 1933 1936 Residence: Freudenthal
61. Abbot Robert Schälzky 1936 1948 Residence: Freudenthal; Grave: Lana
62nd Abbot Marian Tumler 1948 1970 Resided officially in Vienna as the first Grand Master; Resignation
63. Abbot Ildefons Pauler 1970 1988 German province
64. Abbot Arnold Othmar Wieland 1988 2000 Province of South Tyrol; no re-election; Loss of pontificals; returned to his home province
65. Abbot Bruno Platter 2000 2018 Province of South Tyrol
66. Abbot Frank Bayard 2018 German province

literature

  • Karl Eduard Napiersky : Index corporis historicodiplomatici Livoniae, Esthoniae et Curoniae , Volume 2, Riga and Dorpat 1835, pp. 346-348 .
  • Konrad Joseph von Bachem, attempt of a chronology of the grand masters of the German order from the year 1190 to 1802 , digitized

Web links

Commons : Picture gallery of the grand masters up to 1732  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ cf. also Onomastikon chronographiknon hierarchiae germanicae - registers of German bishops since the year 800 AD (Ernst Friedrich Mooyer, ed.), Minden 1854, pp. 131–132 .
  2. ^ Johannes Voigt : Name Codex of the Teutonic Order Officials , Königsberg 1843, p. 1 .