List of signatories of the Book of Concords

Title page of the Book of Concords (1580)

The list of signatories of the Book of Concord shows the sovereigns and cities that accepted the Book of Concord . This meant - if it stayed that way - that the territories concerned were shaped by Lutheran orthodoxy .

meaning

Fifty years after the Augsburg Confession , in 1580, the Book of Concords was supposed to create a unifying doctrinal basis for Lutheranism and to bridge the inner-Lutheran controversies; instead, the contrasts to Calvinism and the Roman Catholic Church were emphasized more strongly. The work displaced older territorial confessional texts. The minority of Lutheran territories that did not accept the concord formula thus preserved the possibility of more free doctrinal development.

Sovereigns

image	Surname	territory
	Louis VI. , Count Palatine of the Rhine, Elector.	Electoral Palatinate
	August I , Duke of Saxony, Elector.	Electoral Saxony
	Johann Georg , Margrave of Brandenburg, Elector.	Mark Brandenburg
	Joachim Friedrich , Margrave of Brandenburg, Administrator of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg.	Archbishopric Magdeburg
	Johann IX. von Haugwitz , Bishop of Meissen.	Diocese of Meissen
	Eberhard von Holle , Bishop of Lübeck, Administrator of Verden Monastery.	Diocese of Lübeck , Verden Abbey
	Philipp Ludwig , Count Palatine.	Pfalz-Neuburg
	(Guardian for :) Friedrich Wilhelm I , Duke of Saxe-Weimar.	Saxe-Weimar
	(Guardian for :) Johann III. , Duke of Saxe-Weimar.
	(Guardian for :) Johann Casimir , Duke of Saxe-Coburg.	Saxe-Coburg
	(Guardian for :) Johann Ernst , Duke of Saxony-Eisenach.	Saxony-Eisenach
	Georg Friedrich , Margrave of Brandenburg.	Brandenburg-Ansbach
	Julius , Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg.	Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
	Otto II , Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg.	Lordship of Harburg
	Heinrich X. (the younger) , Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg.
	Wilhelm V (the younger) , Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg.	Principality of Lüneburg
	Wolfgang , Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg.	Principality of Grubenhagen
	Ulrich , Duke of Mecklenburg.	Mecklenburg-Güstrow , Diocese of Schwerin .
	(Guardian for :) Johann VII. , Duke of Mecklenburg.	Mecklenburg-Schwerin
	(Guardian for :) Sigismund August , Duke of Mecklenburg.
	Ludwig , Duke of Württemberg.	Württemberg
	(Guardian for :) Ernst Friedrich , Margrave of Baden-Durlach.	Margraviate Baden-Durlach
	(Guardian for :) Jacob III. , Margrave of Baden-Hachberg.	Margraviate Baden-Hachberg
	Georg Ernst , Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen.	County of Henneberg
	Friedrich , regent in Mömpelgard (later Duke of Württemberg).
	Johann Günther I. , Count of Schwarzburg.	Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
	Wilhelm I , Count of Schwarzburg.	Schwarzburg-Frankenhausen
	Albrecht Anton I , Count of Schwarzburg.	Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
	Emich XI., Count of Leiningen.	Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg
	Philip IV , Count of Hanau.	Hanau-Lichtenberg
	Gottfried, Count of Oettingen.	County of Oettingen
	Georg II. , Count and Lord of Castell.	County Castell
	Heinrich IV. , Count and Lord of Castell.
	Johann Hoyer III., Count of Mansfeld.	Mansfeld-Artern
	Bruno II, Count of Mansfeld.	Mansfeld-Bornstedt
	Hoyer Christoph I, Count of Mansfeld.	Mansfeld-Eisleben
	Peter Ernst the Younger, Count zu Mansfeld.
	Christoph II., Count of Mansfeld (Mittelort line)
	Otto VIII., Count of Hoya and Burghausen.	Hoya-Nienburg
	Johann XVI. , Count of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst.	County of Oldenburg
	Albrecht Georg, Count of Stolberg.	Stolbergian Harz counties
	Wolf Ernst, Count of Stolberg.	Stolbergian Harz counties
	Ludwig III., Count zu Gleichen.	Same-Blankenhain
	Charles III, Count zu Gleichen.	Same-Blankenhain
	Ernst I., Count of Regenstein.	Regenstein County
	Bodo II, Count of Regenstein.	Regenstein County
	Ludwig II, Count of Löwenstein.	Löwenstein County
	Heinrich, Lord of Limpurg, Semperfrei .	Limpurg-Schmiedelfeld
	Georg, Herr von Schönburg.	Schönburg-Waldenburg
	Wolf, Herr von Schönburg.	Schönburg-Penig-Remissa
	Anarck Friedrich, Lord of Wildenfels.

Cities

City arms	city	signature
	Mayor and Council of the City of Lübeck (Free Imperial City).
	Mayor and Council of the City of Landau (Free Imperial City).	Hans Hitschler
	Mayor and council of the city of Munster in St. Gregoriental (Free Imperial City).	Friedrich Zeringer
	Council of the City of Goslar (Free Imperial City).
	Mayor and Council of the City of Ulm (Free Imperial City).	Hans Ehinger from and to Baltzheim
	Mayor and Council of the City of Esslingen (Free Imperial City).	Matthis Herwart
	Council of the City of Reutlingen (Free Imperial City).	Town clerk Lorenz Zysar
	Mayor and Council of the City of Nördlingen (Free Imperial City).	Peter Seng the Elder
	Mayor and Councilor of Rothenburg ob der Tauber (Free Imperial City).
	City master and council of the city of Schwäbisch Hall (Free Imperial City).	Johann Christoph Adler
	Mayor and Council of the City of Heilbronn (Free Imperial City) .	Johann Spölin
	Mayor and Council of the City of Memmingen (Free Imperial City).	Melchior Stebenhaber in Hezlinshofen
	Mayor and Council of the City of Lindau (Free Imperial City).	Michael Buchschar
	Mayor and Council of the City of Schweinfurt (Free Imperial City).	Syndicus Adam Alberti
	Council of the City of Donauwörth (Free Imperial City).
	Chamberlain and Councilor of the City of Regensburg (Free Imperial City).	Stephan Fugger
	Mayor and Council of the City of Wimpfen (Free Imperial City).	Hans Aff
	Mayor and Council of the City of Giengen (Free Imperial City).	Jörg Vetter
	Mayor and council of Bopfingen (Free Imperial City).
	Mayor and council of the city of Aalen (Free Imperial City).	Kaspar Voss
	Mayor and Council of the City of Kaufbeuren (Free Imperial City).	Ludwig Bonrieder
	Mayor and Council of the City of Isny (Free Imperial City).	Crispinus Riedlein
	Mayor and Council of the City of Kempten (Free Imperial City).	Paulus Röhr
	City Council of Hamburg (Free Imperial City).
	Council of the City of Göttingen .
	City Council of Braunschweig .
	Mayor and Council of the City of Lüneburg .
	Mayor and Council of the City of Leutkirch (Free Imperial City).	Georg Bock
	The whole government of the city of Hildesheim .
	Mayor and Council of the City of Hameln .
	Mayor and council name of the city of Hanover .
	Council of Mulhouse .
	Council to Erfurt .
	City Council of Einbeck .
	Northeim City Council .

literature

• The confessional documents of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, published in the commemoration year of the Augsburg Confession 1930. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, 13th edition, kart. Study ed. the 12th edition from 1998. ISBN 978-3-525-52101-4 (scientific edition, Latin / German), pp. 762–766.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johannes Wallmann : Church history in Germany since the Reformation . 4. through Edition, Mohr, Tübingen 1993, p. 103 f.
2. ↑ Engaged for itself and its territory after the conflict over the inauguration of his son in Halberstadt from 1578 of the Formula of Concord. In Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, the Corpus Doctrinae Julium from 1576, which did not contain the formula of the Concord , remained in force instead of the Book of Concords .
3. ↑ Converted to Calvinism.
4. ↑ Converted to Catholicism.