Paul Rötting

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Paul Rötting († December 31, 1640 in Dresden ) was an imperial civil servant, Dresden councilor and mayor .

Life

Paul Rötting studied law after completing his schooling and is mentioned in 1625 as a "candidate for both rights" in the ringing register of the Dresden Kreuzkirche . Here he ordered his bridal mass and a little later married Elisabetha Münder. At the age of just 22, his wife died in 1629 and was buried in the Sophienkirche . Her tombstone, which showed a woman resting on a pillow, was one of the church's valuable grave monuments until it was destroyed in 1945.

Professionally, Rötting was initially active in imperial services and acted as penny master and official accountant of the Holy Roman Empire. In this office he was responsible for calculating the imperial tax and its proper use. At that time, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire was Ferdinand II , also King of Bohemia , Hungary and Croatia and Archduke of Austria . Rötting also had connections to Bohemia and is mentioned several times in documents and documents. For example, a promissory note for 1000 Reichstaler that the manor owner von Bock from Großpriesen had given Rötting proves his claim to interest payments from Großpriesen. Rötting also seems to have maintained close contacts with the former Chancellor of King Frederick of Bohemia , Wenzel Wilhelm von Ruppa . Before his death, Ruppa had given his two daughters Esther and Anna Katharina, who lived in Dresden, a will on July 21, 1634 and recommended them to the President of the Saxon Court of Appeal Johann von Friesen, the Judicial Councilor Friedrich von Metzsch and the Dresden Mayor Paul Rötting.

In 1632 Paul Rötting became a member of the Dresden Council and was elected mayor the following year. He held this office every three years until his death in 1640.

literature

  • Sieglinde Richter-Nickel: The venerable council of Dresden , in: Dresdner Geschichtsbuch No. 5, Dresden City Museum (ed.); DZA Verlag for Culture and Science, Altenburg 1999, ISBN 3-9806602-1-4 .
  • Otto Richter: Constitutional and administrative history of the city of Dresden , Volume 1, Verlag W. Baensch, Dresden 1885.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Bruck: The Sophienkirche in Dresden, your story and your art treasures , Salzwasser Verlag, Paderborn (reprint from 1912), p. 64, ISBN 9783846023662
  2. ↑ Communications of the North Bohemian Association for Local Research and Hiking Care , Volume 33 (1910), p. 101.
  3. ^ Hubert Ermisch: New Archive for Saxon History and Archeology , Volume 22, Dresden, 1901, p. 312. ( online )

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predecessor Office successor
Hans Hillger (1632, 1635, 1638) Mayor of Dresden
1633, 1636, 1639 		Siegmund Otto (1634, 1637, 1640)
personal data
SURNAME Rötting, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION imperial civil servant, Dresden councilor and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century or 17th century
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1640
Place of death Dresden