Nicolaus Rehdiger
Nicolaus I. Rehdiger , also Rhediger, Rediger, Rudinger, Rudiger, Rüdiger , given names Niklas, Nicholaus , († September 13, 1553 in Breslau ) was a Silesian wholesaler and banker.
Life
Rehdiger's origin is still unexplored. The genealogist Witzendorff-Rehdiger has not proven a descent from the hereditary bailiffs from Kreuzburg in the Principality of Oels .
Rehdiger's first marriage was around 1511, Barbara Rothwasser, the widow of the Beutler Vincenz Frank, who brought a house on the Ohle into the marriage, which meant that he was resident in Breslau and was able to apply for his naturalization. In February 1512 he was granted citizenship as a merchant . At that time he was still doing insignificant shopkeeping . But he must have made money soon, which made it possible for him to buy a house in Albrechtgasse and expand his commercial activities. Rehdiger began long-distance trade and established factories in various cities . He also made lucrative credit deals.
After his first wife Barbara died of the plague in 1516 , Rehdiger married Anna Morenberg von Schönborn (1500–1573), the daughter of town clerk Gregor Morenberg (1450–1497), who (1505?) To Hans Haunold in vain had tried to establish the University of Breslau , and Margarethe von Hemmerdey († 1541).
In 1519, Rehdiger already owned one of the 40 cloth chambers and a rich variety of items on the Schuhbrücke. In an unusually short time he made a considerable fortune and was able to grant the Margrave Joachim I of Brandenburg and Silesian cities larger loans. After a while the entire money traffic between Silesia and Franconia passed through his hands and he became a banker. In 1540 he was one of the five richest citizens of Wroclaw.
The title of nobility , which has become common in the patriciate , was to be had for money given the money required by the Habsburg family . Since the nobility also owns land, Rehdiger acquired the Schliesa estate (now part of Żórawina ) in the district of Breslau in 1543 . In July 1544 he was raised to the herbalist - Bohemian nobility by King Ferdinand I as the deputy of his brother Emperor Charles V under the name Redinger .
His sons include the city treasurer and important patron Nicolaus II. Rehdiger (1525–1587) and the humanist Thomas Rehdiger (1541–1576).
literature
- Oskar Pusch : The Breslau city councils in the period from 1241 to 1741 , Volume 3, page 299f., In: Publications of the Research Center for East Central Europe at the University of Dortmund (Ed .: Johannes Hoffmann), Series B - Volume 38, Dortmund 1988 , ISBN 3-923293-25-9
- Hermann Markgraf: Rehdiger, Thomas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 588-590.,
Mentioned in the article on his son Thomas Rehdiger .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen von Witzendorff-Rehdiger: The Rehdiger in Breslau . In: Yearbook of the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau . Volume 2, 1957, pp. 93-106
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rehdiger, Nicolaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rehdiger, Nicolaus I .; Rhediger, Nicolaus; Rediger, Nicolaus; Rudinger, Nicolaus; Rudiger, Nicolaus; Rüdiger, Nicolaus; Rehdiger, Niklas; Rehdiger, Nicholaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Silesian wholesaler and banker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 13, 1553 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |