Paul Zincke

Mathäus Küsel : Portrait of Dresden's bridge administrator and mayor Paul Zincke (copper engraving around 1680)

Paul Zincke (also Paulus Zincke ; * January 12, 1608 , † October 1, 1678 in Dresden ) was a Dresden councilor and mayor .

Life

Paul Zincke was the son of a Dresden citizen and initially completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith . In 1634 he passed his master craftsman examination and received citizenship the following year. Just two years later, in 1637, he became the elder of the Dresden guild of gold and silversmiths. Several cups are known from his hand, which he marked with his initials "PZ". On the occasion of his election as mayor of Dresden on May 1, 1667, he donated a gilded lidded beaker for the council treasure.

In 1643 Zincke was accepted into the Dresden Council and took over the duties of the bridge office administrator , who was responsible for maintaining the Dresden Elbe bridge . In 1667 the city council elected him for life as one of the three alternating mayors of the city.

Paul Zincke had a total of 14 children, among them his daughter Dorothea Zincke, who from 1670 was married to the dean and rector of the Wittenberg University Balthasar Stolberg (1640–1684). His son Samuel Zinck worked in Wittenberg and Dessau between 1675 and 1704 as an itinerant preacher and author of writings critical of religion.

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.

Web links

• Article Paul Zincke in Stadtwiki Dresden

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dresden: the history of the city from the beginnings to the present , Dresdner Geschichtsverein (ed.), Verlag Junius, 2002, p. 63

predecessor	Office	successor
Christian Brehme (1666) Matthäus Schlintzig (1669, 1672, 1675)	Mayor of Dresden 1667, 1670, 1673, 1676	Michael Müller (1668, 1671, 1674) Georg Wiegner (1677)