Sadok Seli Soltan

Sadok Seli Soltan , probably Turkish Mehmet Sadık Selim Sultan (also: Johann (es) Soldan , * around 1270; † 1328 ) was possibly the first documented Turkish German . He was baptized Christian in 1305 in the Johanniskirche in Brackenheim and buried there in 1328. There are suspicions that he could have been one of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's ancestors.

Life

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Sadok Seli Soltan was a Turkish officer and was imprisoned by the "Count of Lechmotir" during a crusade . According to the sources cited by Bernt Engelmann , the said count was Reinhard von Württemberg , who is said to have given himself the nickname Lechmotir after a Syrian city conquered during the crusade . In biographical encyclopedias for the House of Württemberg, however, Reinhard is unknown, so that the count in question is addressed elsewhere as a member of the Lords of Magenheim , who still ruled Brackenheim around 1300 , while the Württemberg residents only moved up there temporarily from 1321 and permanently from 1356 .

Because of his bravery, Soltan was appointed colonel by the count. In 1304 Soltan married Rebecka Dohlerin. In 1305 he was baptized Christian in the Johanniskirche in Brackenheim , taking the name Johann Soldan . The connection with the Dohlerin came from the three sons Eberhardus, Christianus and Melchior, who had a burial chapel built in 1344 in the St. John's Church, which was otherwise mainly used as a burial place for the Lords of Magenheim, and who appeared as donors. In the Soldan chapel there was a marble epitaph for Johann Soldan. Besides him, his three sons were also buried in the chapel. A Conrad Soldan († 1513) is said to have been buried in Brackenheim.

The inscription on the Soldan epitaph read: “Johannes Soldan moritur anno Christi MCCCXXVIII. / Soldan hic primus moritur Christianus, / Qui Turcico nomine & patria natus, / Sanguine sed Christi hic publice lotus, / Fide, vita, morte sic pie sepultus. "

tomb

The Soldan grave chapel was in the Johanniskirche in Brackenheim (view from 1908)

While the burial chapel in the Brackenheimer Johanniskirche no longer exists today, a younger stained glass with the Soldan coat of arms has been preserved in the arched area of ​​the sacristy door. The Soldan's coat of arms shows “in the shield the full open sun, the sickled moon and three stars: on the helmet, an armored Turk's bust, with a turban or Turkish league, in the right a Turkish saber, in the left an arrow ". The lawyer Hans Soldan (1870–1940) also used this coat of arms as a family coat of arms.

There are different views of the location of the Soldan burial chapel in the Johanniskirche. Excavations through summer in 1903 led to the conclusion that the burial chapel had merged into the sacristy of the church. Adolf Schahl (1981) contradicts this localization and rather identifies the Soldan Chapel in the north aisle of the church.

reception

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Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder reported on Soldan in Volume 15 of his basis on a Hessian scholar and writer history from the Reformation to the present day (Kassel 1806). He cites the preacher Johann Christoph Soldan from Reichelsheim as the source , who in turn refers to "an ancient fragment of a Soldan family tree".

Engelmann (1984) already included Johann Soldan in the ancestral line of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , who has been known to have an oriental ancestor on his mother's side since the 19th century. There is no definite proof of the descent of Goethe von Soldan, but indications from a family chronicle of the 16th century point to the area around Brackenheim for this oriental ancestor. The thesis was last represented by Werner Ulrich Deetjen on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Soldan's baptism in 2005. The possible relationship with Soldan, however, does not confirm the rumor circulating elsewhere, especially in Arab countries, that Goethe was a Muslim .

See also

• Booty Turks

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deetjen 2005.
2. ↑ Name after Strieder 1806, p. 120. Newer literature calls him Sadoch Selim (Heimatbuch Brackenheim 1980) or Sadok Selim Soltan , also Sadok Selim Zultan u. Ä.
3. ↑ Strieder 1806, p. 120.
4. ↑ Engelmann 1984, pp. 70/71.
5. ^ Kohlhammer: The House of Württemberg - A biographical lexicon. Stuttgart 1997.
6. ↑ Name after Strieder 1806. Newer literature with different spellings like Rebecca Döbler u. Ä.
7. ↑ Strieder 1806, p. 121.
8. ↑ Strieder 1806, p. 121.
9. ↑ Schahl 1981, p. 10.
10. ↑ Strieder 1806, p. 121.
11. ↑ Soldan ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ↑ Exhibition “100 Years of Hans Soldan (1908–2008)”, online ( memento of the original from April 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on September 24, 2012, coat of arms image in the catalog PDF ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  
13. ↑ Strieder 1806, p. 120.
14. ↑ Engelmann 1984, pp. 70/71.
15. ↑ Protestant Church District Brackenheim ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 24, 2012. 
16. ↑ Werner Baumgart: Was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Muslim? (SWR editorial team Religion, Church and Society). Online , accessed September 24, 2012.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer history from the Reformation to the present day. Vol. 15, Kassel 1806, pp. 120-128, ( online ).
• Adolf Schahl: The Johanniskirche in Brackenheim (= magazine of the Zabergäuvereins 1/2 , 1981). Brackenheim 1981, pp. 10-12.
• Bernt Engelmann : You German? History of foreigners in our country. Bertelsmann, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-03584-0 , pp. 70/71.
• Werner-Ulrich Deetjen: 700th anniversary of Sadok Selim - Johannes Soldan (around 1270–1328), first documented Turkish German and Brackenheim citizen. Brackenheim 2005.