Samuel Hornmold

Samuel Hornmold (born September 28, 1537 in Bietigheim ; † February 1, 1601 in Heilbronn ) was Professor of Tübingen, Chancellor of Baden-Baden, Hohenlohe Councilor and Syndicus in Heilbronn.

His father was the Bietigheimer Vogt and first church council director in Württemberg, Sebastian Hornmold the elder (1500–1581). He was a housemate of Philipp Melanchthon in Wittenberg and became a doctor of both rights and professor at the University of Tübingen . Contrary to the Reformation attitudes of his environment and his family, Samuel Hornmold publicly professed Catholicism. On the recommendation of the Augsburg monastery preacher to the Bavarian Duke Albrecht V , uncle of the still underage Baden-Baden regent Philip II , Hornmold was appointed by the Bavarian governor Otto Heinrich von Schwarzenberg as councilor of the margraviate of Baden-Baden . A little later he was appointed chancellor there. Hornmold was trusted by the Bavarian side not least because he was an extensive relative of the Bavarian legal scholar Konrad Braun . In the course of the Counter Reformation, Hornmold in Bavaria promised the return of the Protestant margravate of Baden-Baden to Catholicism. Lieutenant von Schwarzenberg had doubts about Hornmold, who came from a Reformation environment, and had him spied on immediately after taking office as Chancellor, including opening letters and spying on messengers. Finally, Schwarzenberg came to the view that Hornmold's lack of Counter-Reformation zeal was due to the fact that he had only given his Counter-Reformation sentiments in order to get into an influential position and ultimately to induce Philip II, who was still under Bavarian tutelage, to Protestantism. Hornmold was placed under house arrest and finally had to leave Baden-Baden after a trial because of the defamation of a carter some time ago. From 1577 he was the Hohenlohe councilor, from 1582 until his death in 1601 he was a syndic in Heilbronn.

progeny

His first marriage was to Maria Calwer († 1585), his second marriage to Anna Trapp born. Kessel and married in third marriage to Ursula Scheler (widow of Dr. Johann Kappelbeck from Tübingen). The first marriage had eight children:

• Anna Maria (1560–1634), married. with the Mayor of Heilbronn Johann Simon Weinmann the Younger
• Sebastian (1562-1634)
• Samuel (* 1563)
• Josias (1564–1566)
• Johannes Melchior (* 1565)
• David (* 1567)
• Johann Georg (1569–1632)
• Andreas (* 1570)

His second wife Anna Trapp had four other children:

• Johann Ulrich († 1611)
• Johann Georg († 1632)
• Maria (approx. 1573-1618)
• Magdalena († 1625), married to her stepbrother Sebastian

literature

• Günther Bentele: The paintings in the Hornmoldhaus and in the summer parlor (with supplement and appendix on the genealogy of the Hornmold family). In: Sheets on the city's history. Issue 5, Bietigheim-Bissingen 1986
• Günther Bentele: The paintings in the Bietigheim Hornmoldhaus . Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft Bietigheim, Bietigheim-Bissingen 1995, ISBN 3-9801938-7-X
  (with family tree of the Hornmold family according to Kübler / Bentele)