Nikolaus Siegfried (Mayor)

Nikolaus Siegfried , also Nicolas Siegfried († after 1401 ) was a mayor of the city of Stralsund .

He came from a Stralsund patrician family that had provided councilors since 1301. He himself was elected to the Stralsund council in 1373. In a politically difficult time - the previous mayor Bertram Wulflam had fled the city with his family - he became mayor in 1392.

Councilor Hermann Hosang , who had been suspended for illegal grain export, tried to murder Nikolaus Siegfried in the Nikolaikirche . The attempted murder failed and Hosang was sentenced to death. Nikolaus Siegfried donated an altar for a soul mass in the Nikolaikirche, which he furnished with income from the villages of Barnkevitz and Lobkevitz . This foundation existed for a long time as the so-called Siegfrieden Vicarie.

Nikolaus Siegfried was married to Geseke Wyckber for the first time. Through her he inherited the patronage of an altar founded by her grandfather, the mayor Leo Valke , in the Nikolaikirche. From his second marriage the son Sabel , who like the father became mayor of Stralsund, and the daughter Wobbeke, who married Everhard Rubenow, a son of Greifswald mayor Everhard Rubenow , emerged. Nikolaus Siegfried died after 1401.

See also

• History of the Hanseatic City of Stralsund
• List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Stralsund

literature

• Theodor Pyl :  Siegfried, Nikolaus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 204 f.

Web links

• Biography of Johann Albert Dinnies in the digital library Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, original in the Stralsund city archive, Hs 359

Footnotes

1. ^ Theodor Pyl :  Rubenow, Everhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 416.
2. ^ Arnold Brandenburg : History of the Magistrate of the City of Stralsund . Carl Löfflersche Buchhandlung, Stralsund 1837, p. 84 ( online ).