Nikolaus Smiterlow
Nikolaus Smiterlow (* mid-15th century in Greifswald ; † July 1539 in Stralsund ) was a German politician and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Stralsund.
Smiterlow (also: Schmiterlow, Smiterlöw) was the son of the Greifswald mayor Nikolaus Smiterlow. He received his comprehensive education in Greifswald. In 1483 he went to Stralsund, where he met some influential families. He married Gesa von Lübeck and moved to Stralsund in 1485 after his father's death.
He was elected to the city council in 1507 and mayor in 1516. He accompanied Duke Bogislaw X. in 1523 on his trip to Nuremberg , where the latter asked for the liberation of Pomerania from the Brandenburg overlordship. On his return he heard Martin Luther's sermons in Wittenberg , which made him a supporter of the new, reformed church teaching.
Returning to Stralsund he was ambassador of his city in the war of the Hanseatic League from 1520 to 1524 against Christian II. After the end of the conflict he supported the reformer Christian Ketelhot in Stralsund.
Smiterlow opposed the reform of the city constitution initiated by Karsten Sarnow and refused to sign it. After Roloff Möller and Christoph Lorbeer were elected councilors, he voluntarily went into "exile" in Greifswald. There he lived with the daughter of his late brother Bartolomäus Smiterlow, who was married to Nikolaus Sastrow . He taught their sons Johannes and Bartholomäus Sastrow .
In 1527 he returned to Stralsund in office and dignity. He represented the city in Stettin in 1527 and continued on charges against the dismissal of the Catholic clergy.
In 1534 he was removed from office again after the mayor of Lübeck Jürgen Wullenwever had opposed him because of his rejection of Wullenweber's plans at the Hanseatic Conference held in Hamburg in 1534 . He remained there until 1535 and was caught only on the initiative of Duke Philip I fired. After he long refused to sign a declaration in which he confirmed his actions as being directed against the interests of Stralsund and to renounce the office of mayor, he finally consented to this deal. After Wullenwever's death in 1537, however, he was appointed mayor again and the declaration was destroyed. He held this office until his death in July 1539.
Smiterlowstrasse in Stralsund is reminiscent of Smiterlow .
family
His father was the mayor of Greifswald.
He was married to Gesa von Lübeck , with whom he had three daughters and four sons. The youngest of his sons, Georg Smiterlow, also became mayor of Stralsund from 1559 to 1571.
Late descendants in the family were the West Pomeranian homeland researcher Erik von Schmiterlöw and his son, the Stralsund painter Bertram von Schmiterlöw.
literature
- Theodor Pyl : Schmiterlow, Nikolaus II . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 38-42.
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| SURNAME | Smiterlow, Nicholas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Smiterlöw, Nikolaus; Schmiterlow, Nikolaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mayor of Stralsund |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Greifswald |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1539 |
| Place of death | Stralsund |