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Matheus Krämer (* around 1600 ; † no earlier than 1671 in Tübingen ) was a long-time mayor of Tübingen who became famous for his successful mediation during the siege of Hohentübingen Castle by the French.

Life

Mateus Krämer was a son of Martin Krämer and his wife Anna geb. Brussels. In 1622 he married Barbara Koch from Urach . From 1636 he was related to the court, from 1640/41 - 1643/44 he held the office of hospital administrator. From 1646 he was mayor of Tübingen.

In 1647, Bavarian mercenaries occupied Hohentübingen Castle while a French army under General Field Marshal Turenne was on the advance. With his attack on Tübingen, Turenne probably wanted to influence the negotiations between France and Bavaria in Ulm , which were taking place at the same time . Turenne called on the crew to surrender through a trumpeter as negotiator who was received by the Bavarians according to a “military rite”. On the evening of Monday, January 24th (or February 3rd) 1647, Turenne withdrew in the direction of Reutlingen and Pfullingen , “alda staying overnight”.

About an hour after his departure, a delegation ("Commission") from the city and University of Tübingen was sent to the French. "Joh. Martin Rauscher, Hugo Maurique Ein MömpelGartischer Studiosus, (...), and Mr. Matheus Krämer Burgermeister "came to Pfullingen accompanied by the French trumpeter and brought the following message to Turenne (" Postillion "): Tübingen had never shown itself hostile to the French, do not intend to do this in the future either, so the request is made to "spare the city and university as much as possible".

The following day, the delegates from Tübingen received a letter of protection from General Turenne and returned at four in the afternoon with the coveted letter of protection ("Salva Quardi"), which only referred to the university. In the weeks that followed, there were hardly any French patrols in the vicinity of Tübingen. Therefore, talk was already spreading in the city that the request to surrender was nothing more than a mere attempt ("tentement").

Later, in the years 1662–1670, Krämer was also a member of the landscape. He was mayor of Tübingen until 1671. Since he was no longer mentioned from that year, it can be assumed that he died in the same year or shortly afterwards.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Rudolf Seigel: Court and Council ... p. 235
2. ↑ Chronology of the siege of Hohentübingen Castle by the French in 1647 according to original sources - Part 1: until the end of February 1647
3. ↑ Senate minutes in the University Archive of Tübingen (UAT) ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

literature

• Rudolf Seigel: Court and Council in Tübingen. From the beginnings to the introduction of the municipal constitution 1818–1822 , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1960 (= publication of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg)