Niklas Poll

Niklas Poll (* before 1289 ; † after 1329 ) was an Austrian politician , son of the first documented mayor of Vienna , Konrad Poll , and himself from 1313 to 1315 and 1324 to 1327 mayor of Vienna .

Live and act

Niklas Poll was born as the son of the wealthy landowner Konrad Poll . His grandfather, Konrad Poll senior, was a wholesale merchant who came to Vienna via Regensburg and acquired the rule of Vöslau as well as a fiefdom in the Wachau . Around the year 1313 he is likely to have replaced Niklas von Eslarn as head of the city of Vienna and was active in his first term of office from 1313 to 1315. His first wife Gertrud was first mentioned in a document in 1316. A few years later, from 1324 to 1327, he held the office of mayor of Vienna again. His wife at the time was Christine, first mentioned in 1327. From 1338 to 1339 his son Berthold Poll was also mayor of Vienna. The Poll patrician family also included Stefan Poll († 1425–1430), another city politician in Vienna.

literature

• Felix Czeike : Mayor of Vienna. A history of the city of Vienna . Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7141-0420-8 .
• Handbook of the City of Vienna. Vienna: Verlag für Jugend und Volk 98 (1983/1984), Book II, p. 226

Web links

• Niklas Poll in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
• Short biographies of the mayors of Vienna at wien.at - Niklas Poll