Philipp Erer

Philipp Erer (* around 1490 in Heilbronn ; † November 29, 1562 in Schwäbisch Hall ) was a German lawyer . He came from the Heilbronn patrician family Erer and held high positions for various lords. At the time of the Reformation he mainly worked for gentlemen who had remained Catholic, but was also temporarily in the service of the Reformation-minded Duke Ulrich von Württemberg . He also worked several times in favor of his hometown Heilbronn, which was still an Old Believer during the tenure of his father, the mayor Conrad Erer († 1539), but was reformed during Philipp Erer's lifetime.

Life

He was the eldest son of the mayor of Heilbronn, Conrad Erer, and Ursula Nagel. On February 5, 1505, he enrolled at the Artistic Faculty of the University of Cologne , possibly following the cathedral dean Johann Mettelbach from Heilbronn , a relative of his grandmother's. In 1508 he received his master's degree, in 1511 he moved to the University of Heidelberg and in 1516 to the University of Tübingen . It is not known where he obtained his doctorate degree. In 1520 he was a councilor for the Austrian government of the Duchy of Württemberg in Stuttgart . In this activity he was entrusted in particular with relations with the imperial city of Heilbronn, where his father Conrad, who was still living at the time, was mayor. In 1523 Erer applied unsuccessfully for the vacant position as Heilbronner Syndicus , but was defeated in the election of the council to Gregor von Nallingen . In the following year he tried again unsuccessfully to fill an office in Heilbronn while retaining his position in Stuttgart. From around 1527 to 1530 Erer was Vogt in Kirchheim unter Teck , from 1532 to 1534 he was Vogt in Stuttgart. After Duke Ulrich returned and the Austrian government of Württemberg collapsed, Erer turned to Heilbronn, where in 1535 he was involved in a contract on hunting and shepherd rights between the Lords of Gemmingen and the Counts of Löwenstein . In 1537/38 he was chancellor of the Speyer bishop Philipp von Flersheim and was involved in the conclusion of a contract between the city of Heilbronn and the Beguines expelled from Heilbronn during the Reformation . After the death of his father in 1539, the Heilbronn council granted him discounts for three years because of his favorable work for the city. In 1540 Erer was Chancellor in Ellwangen . While he had been noticed as an opponent of the Reformation and was in the service of Catholic gentlemen, in 1542 he returned to Württemberg service and was one of Duke Ulrich's ambassadors a. a. at the Imperial Diets in Speyer and Nuremberg in 1542 and at the meeting of the Augsburg denominational relatives in Frankfurt am Main in 1546. In that year he seems to have given up his Heilbronn citizenship . In the following year Erer, who by now had his place of residence in Augsburg , entered the service of Margrave Ernst von Baden-Durlach . At that time he helped to avert the threatening siege of the imperial city Heilbronn by Spanish troops. In 1551 he was still a margrave councilor, but his residence was in Hall . During the city law reform in Hall of 1552 by the old-believing emperor, he and Hall's Syndicus Widmann were expressly mentioned in praise, so that Erer in Hall had at least again represented conservative, if not Catholic positions. In 1555 Erer was in the service of the Counts of Hohenlohe . His last residence was in Waldenburg , where he was buried in the church and where his grave monument has been preserved.

family

His first marriage was to Agnes, who died in 1555 at the latest, and whose origin is unknown. After her death he married Katharina Egen († February 9, 1562), whose tomb of Sem Schlör is in the Michaelskirche in Schwäbisch Hall. Both marriages remained childless.

literature

• Moriz von Rauch : The Erer in Heilbronn . In: Bl. Historischer Verein Heilbronn 1925, p. 13 ff.