Peter Byner

Peter Byner (also Behner, Bynner, Petrus Bihner ) was a Dresden councilor and mayor in the 16th century .

Life

origin

Byner came from a bourgeois family from Dresden, who can be traced back to the city as early as 1437. Between 1507 and 1540, the tailor Greger Byner belonged to the Dresden council and was mayor from 1518.

Activity as councilor

Peter Byner was also a member of the council from 1528. At first he took over the office of lord of interest and was responsible for the collection and administration of the inheritance and capital interest due to the council . A year later he was elected judge. Byner was the ruling mayor for the first time in 1531 and from then on held this office every three years.

Act as mayor

Byner's term of office was politically shaped by the clashes between Catholic and Protestant forces as well as the power struggles between Duke Moritz and the Schmalkaldic League . In this context, the three ruling mayors Peter Byner, Hans Gleinig and Theodoricus Lyndemann stood against the sovereign Moritz and were not entirely averse to the rule of the Ernestines , which led to the indictment in 1547. However, the verdicts were mild and all three were allowed to return to their offices. However, Byner had to declare the council's future devotion to the ducal government. On the orders of the sovereign, he also reorganized the security service of the citizens in a new watch order in order to be prepared for possible military attacks on Dresden.

In 1549, Peter Byner was responsible for integrating the city of Altendresden into Dresden on the left bank of the Elbe, as ordered by Moritz . The civic oath he demanded was initially refused by the Altendresdner council. Only the temporary capture of Altendresdner's mayor Wolf Fischer finally led to the relenting. Shortly afterwards, the sovereign again intervened in the city's organization and ordered Peter Byner to continue in office, bypassing the council regulations of 1517 and after the election had already taken place.

It is not clear when Byner died. The archivist Otto Richter states in his work Constitutional and Administrative History of the City of Dresden (1885-1891) that Peter Byner was removed from the mayor's office in 1568 due to old age. However, recent sources doubt this statement and assume a death around 1551. This year he was named in the council register for the last time. This is supported by a note in an invoice from the Maternihospital from 1551/52, in which Byner's death is noted in the title of the invoice. His heirs later received 400 guilders back from a loan that the mayor had granted to Duke Moritz after he had had to take over part of the Ernestine liabilities as a result of the Wittenberg surrender .

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. ^ Christian Ruf: 800 years of Dresden: a journey through time , Edition Sächsische Zeitung, Dresden 2005. ISBN 9783938325193 , p. 50.
2. ↑ Heinrich Butte: History of Dresden up to the Reformation , in: Mitteldeutsche Forschungen , Volume 54, Böhlau Verlag, 1967, p. 262
3. ^ Karl Ernst Gotthard Henning: Constitution Economy and Social-Economy of the State Capital Dresden under the government of Elector August of Saxony (1553–1586). Verlag A. Kleinsorge, 1936, p. 22. Henning, however, incorrectly speaks of Duke August, who was not yet ruling at this time.
4. ^ Otto Richter: Constitutional and administrative history of the city of Dresden , Volume 1, Verlag W. Baensch, Dresden 1885, p. 419.
5. ↑ Alexandra-Kathrin Stanislaw-Kemenah: Hospitals in Dresden: from the change of an institution , in: Writings on Saxon history and folklore, Volume 24, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2008, ISBN 9783865831637 , p. 122
6. ^ Uwe Schirmer: Kursächsische Staatsfinanzen (1456–1656): structures, constitution, functional elites. in: Sources and research on Saxon history, Volume 28, Verlag der Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 9783515089555 , p. 593.

predecessor	Office	successor
Greger Byner (1530, 1533, 1536, 1539) Theodoricus Lyndemann (1542, 1545)	Mayor of Dresden 1531 , 1534 , 1537 , 1540 , 1543 , 1546 - 1550	Hans Gleinig (1532, 1535, 1538, 1541, 1544) Theodoricus Lyndemann (1551)