List of the heads of the city of Eisenach

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This is the list of the mayors and lords of Eisenach from 1286 onwards.

Preliminary remark

Source history

In 1196, 13 citizens of Eisenach, including a mayor, who was probably appointed by the sovereign despite his bourgeois origin, appeared for the first time in a landgrave deed named after nobles and ministers. The Eisenach Council was first mentioned in 1277, and Eisenach received the great privilege of town charter from 1283 from Landgrave Albrecht the Degenerate , replacing an older diploma that had been wrested from the town for unknown reasons. The now annually compiled city legal records contained not only the notable court judgments, but also the city officials, councilors, aldermen and other notes on the city's history.

In the late 16th century, the city's lawyers were increasingly confronted with forged documents and titles; the evidence was to create a list of all Eisenach councilors since the city was founded that could be checked at any time using their (own) original documents. The former rector of the Eisenach Latin School Quirinus Bisander ended this long-term work around 1600 . A copy of his list can be found in the “Red Book” of the Eisenach Georgenkirche, while all the originals and most of the documents and city law certificates were destroyed in the city fire of 1636 with the Eisenach city archives . After Bisanders death checked and supplemented the deacon John heaven and the church clerk Stöhr the information. The current city clerks were now obliged to add to the list annually; this instruction was followed up to 1812.

In 1709, the rector of the Latin school and historiographer Christian Juncker studied the list in detail in order to include it in his regional historical texts as required. In 1857, the Eisenach antiquity researcher and rector of the Eisenach grammar school Wilhelm Rein (1809-1865) published the first part of the list of city leaders from 1247 to 1351 in the appendix to his article "The city regiment and the Schöppenstuhl zu Eisenach" In a subsequent volume in 1859, the councilors from 1352 to 1500 were presented by Rein himself. According to his records, the grammar school teacher Georg Kühn continued this list of councilors from 1500 to 1628. After 20 years, Kühn also published the final fourth part of the Eisenacher Ratsfasten with corrections and additions to the content. This list of names of the councilors and city leaders covers the period from 1629 to 1812.

In the following year, 1813, the Eisenach city council decided on a new city code in which the office and powers of the city's mayor were reorganized. In 1847 the office of Lord Mayor was created and occupied until 1953. Between 1954 and 1994 there was only the office of mayor, since 1994 the city has been ruled by a lord mayor again.

The list of Eisenach's mayors and lord mayors is thus almost completely passed on from handwritten and printed sources from the 13th century and contains around 2000 names. In the following overview, only selected persons are listed for the period before 1813.

Mayor from 1286 to 1798

Name / life dates Years of office Remarks
Heinrich Hellgreve
† 1313 		1286–1309
(with interruptions) 		Member of a wealthy Eisenach noble family. Owner of the village of Oberstedtfeld with its own court and church loan.
Christoph Hellgreve 1345 Son of Heinrich Hellgreve, was also several times Eisenach councilor between 1331 and 1347
Heinrich Schalbe
(also: Hans Schalbe) 		1495–1499
(with interruptions) 		Hosted Martin Luther during his time in Eisenach.
Johann Cotta Sr. 1512-1529 Member of a rich Eisenach patrician family, son Ursula Cottas . Was also mentioned as a wine master in 1524.
Johann Cotta jun.
around 1500–1561 		1524 to 1560
(with interruptions) 		Son of Johann Cotta sen. and during his term of office also city treasurer, co-initiator of the visitations of the reformer Justus Menius in Eisenach.
Bonaventure Cotta
1514-1594 		1567-1591 Nephew of Johann Cotta senior, brewery owner
Conrad Grumbein
1568-1665 		1628-1649 Lawyer and notary, first mayor who did not come from Eisenach (born in Behringen ). He saved the city from ruin during the Thirty Years' War , during his term of office the plague epidemic of 1635 and the great city fire of 1636 fell.
Justin (us) Schmidt
1651-1724 		1707 – after 1721 Eisenacher merchant and merchant, rent master and chief tax director, Princely Saxon landscape deputy. He introduced the fast weaving mill in Eisenach, which led to an increase in the city's prosperity, founder of an orphanage, whose residents he let work in his factory.
Johann Andreas Knoll around 1750
Johann Lorenz Streiber
1723–1796 		until 1796 Eisenach factory owner and banker. Married to Maria-Sophie Schmidt, who was fervently adored by Klopstock in his youth. His family was friends with Goethe.

(Lord) Mayor from 1799

Name / life dates Political party Date of inauguration Date of end of office Remarks
Friedrich Günther Beyer
1768–1832 		1799 February 14, 1832 First mayor, who ruled according to the city rules of 1813. Special contribution to the security of the city during the war years 1806 to 1813
Carl Christian Wilhelm May
1777-1846 		June 30, 1832 September 6, 1846 Ruled in economically and socially calm times until his death
August Roese
1807-1891 		January 26, 1847 September 30, 1884 "Lord Mayor for Life", water supply and sewer system, gas lighting, construction of the municipal theater
Georg von Eucken-Addenhausen
1855–1942 		April 1, 1885 May 15, 1893 Promoted school and church building, construction of an electricity plant and a telephone exchange, foundation of the Carl Alexander Library
August Nikolaus Müller
1856–1926 		June 1, 1893 November 15, 1900 Industrialization of the city, expanding the spa and construction of additional health facilities, in a busy 1897 to Sommergewinn again
Georg von Fewson
1863–? 		November 15, 1900 September 25, 1903 Was (probably embezzling municipal funds) dismissed due to irregularities in the official leadership of his office, fled from Eisenach, later in Berlin-Schmargendorf as former Mayor mortality data demonstrated unknown
Hans Schmieder
1866–1932 		April 9, 1904 June 30, 1919 Provided for economic and cultural upswing, construction of the foyer
Fritz Janson
1885-1946 		DVP October 12, 1919 March 31, 1937 Establishment of the Wartburg Foundation, construction of the municipal hospital, maintained its position in office until 1937 , despite attempts by the National Socialists to replace them
Herbert Müller-Bowe
1896–1979 		NSDAP April 3, 1937 March 31, 1945 Resignation against his will by order of the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior
Rudolf Lotz
1901–1973 		April 4, 1945 May 7, 1945 Negotiated the surrender of Eisenach to the US troops without a fight at the end of the Second World War in the Kaiserhof hotel
Ernst Fresdorf
1889–1967 		SPD May 7, 1945 July 25, 1945 Was appointed mayor by the American troops, removed from office by the Soviet occupation forces on the pretext of a foreign exchange offense and interned in special camp No. 2 Buchenwald
Karl Hermann
1885–1973 		SPD July 25, 1945 September 15, 1946 After only a short term in office, moved to the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior
Werner Fischer
1902–1976 		LDPD October 4, 1946 October 30, 1953 Stabilized the city after the Second World War, resigned in 1953
Hermann Harden
1912–1964 		LDPD December 1, 1953 December 13, 1961 Came with the government in conflict and in 1961 for " HO vehicle and Technology " in Erfurt demoted
Sigfried Möckel
1923–1987 		LDPD October 11, 1961 June 12, 1974 The triple jubilee celebrated in 1967 “900 years of Wartburg”, “450 years of Reformation” and “150 years of fraternity meeting” was the high point of his tenure; for his services in preparation and implementation he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. In 1974 he had to resign for health reasons.
Joachim Klapczynski
1929-2006 		LDPD June 19, 1974 April 20, 1990 The Sommergewinn tradition felt obliged instrumental in twinning Eisenach with Marburg involved
Hans-Peter Brodhun
* 1955 		CDU May 31, 1990 June 30, 2000 Enforcement of the district freedom, reorganization of the city administration after the fall of the Wall , settlement of industrial companies, urban redevelopment and infrastructure projects
Gerhard Schneider
* 1950 		CDU July 1, 2000 June 30, 2006 Continuation of urban redevelopment (including Hellgrevenhof city ​​library , swimming pool); Foundation of the Wandelhalle Foundation
Matthias Doht
* 1958 		SPD July 1, 2006 June 30, 2012 The further urban redevelopment, in particular the major project advertised as the “gateway to the city”, the budget consolidation and the struggle to maintain the Eisenach Opel factory and the Eisenach theater dominated the term of office.
Katja Wolf
* 1976 		The left July 1, 2012 The preparation and implementation of the Reformation anniversary in 2017 dominated her first term of office, re-election in April 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Friedrich von Strenge and Ernst Devrient (ed.): The city rights of Eisenach, Gotha and Waltershausen . G. Fischer, Jena 1909, p. 442 .
  2. ↑ Hans Patze , Peter Aufgebauer (Ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 9: Thuringia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 313). 2nd, improved and supplemented edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-520-31302-2 , p. 92 ff.
  3. ↑ Reinhold Brunner: The Eisenach city archive and the purpose of historical transmission. In: StadtZeit. Eisenach currently. June 1997.
  4. ↑ a b c Wilhelm Rein; Editor Georg Kühn: Continuation of the Eisenach Rathsfasten. (1521-1628) . In: Annual report of the Carl Friedrich Gymnasium in Eisenach . tape 1885/86 . Eisenach, S. 1-17 .
  5. ^ Wilhelm Rein: The city regiment and the Schöppenstuhl zu Eisenach. The Eisenach Rathsfasten from 1247–1351 . In: Journal of the association for Thuringian history and antiquity . Second volume, no. 3 . Jena 1856, p. 158-180 .
  6. ^ Wilhelm Rein: Continuation of the Eisenacher Rathsfasten 1352-1500 . In: Journal of the association for Thuringian history and antiquity . Third volume. Jena 1859, p. 163-184 .
  7. ↑ a b Wilhelm Rein; Editor Georg Kühn: Continuation of the Eisenach Rathsfasten. (1629-1812) . In: Annual reports of the Carl Friedrich Gymnasium in Eisenach . tape 1903/07 . Eisenach.
  8. ↑ Thomas Kaufmann: Martin Luther . CH Beck, 2006, ISBN 3-406-50888-X , p. 29 .
  9. ^ Gustav Lebrecht Schmidt: Justus Menius, the reformer of Thuringia . Perthes, 1867, p. 90 ( books.google.com - digitized version).
  10. ^ Karl Ernst Adolf v. Hoff and Christian Wilhelm Jacobs: The Thuringian Forest, especially described for travelers , Ettingersche Buchhandlung, Gotha, 1807, p. 302 f.
  11. ^ Anton Balthasar König : Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures who made themselves famous in the Prussian service. Third part: M – See. Arnold Wever, Berlin 1790, p. 275 ( books.google.de ).

literature

  • Urania cultural and educational association Gotha eV (Ed.): Eisenacher personalities . A biographical lexicon. RhinoVerlag, Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-932081-45-5 .

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