Samuel von Derenburg

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Samuel von Derenburg (also Smol or Derenburch ; † October 5, 1382 ) was the first German-Jewish court banker to the Archbishop of Magdeburg . One cannot yet speak of a court factor , since he had no office by appointment.

With his brothers Marquard and Ephraim, he entered the service of Archbishop Otto in November 1347, when he negotiated a loan of 300 marks with the Braunschweig Council until the following Easter.

In October 1364, Samuel and the Provost Hermann von Werberg testified that Prince Waldemar I von Anhalt had missed a meeting in Barby with Archbishop Dietrich . He was also part of the commission that was supposed to settle a dispute with the city of Halle (Saale) about the appointment of a salt mine supervisor (document of February 27, 1365).

Samuel served Archbishop Peter von Magdeburg with great personal closeness . When he placed the Jews of Magdeburg under his jurisdiction in April 1372 , Samuel and his children were explicitly excluded because they had their own privileges . Pope Gregory XI. criticized this in a letter from Avignon in 1372, especially since the court banker is said to have set up a synagogue in a former chapel in Groß Salza .

As the persecution of Jews in the Jewish village showed, the Jews in Magdeburg were repeatedly subjected to persecution by the citizens during Samuel's lifetime, especially in the Great Plague of 1348/49.

literature

  • Abraham Lewinsky, in: Monthly for History and Science of Judaism 48 (1904), pp. 457-60
  • Heinrich Schnee : Die Hoffinanz and the modern state , 1 (1953), pp. 19-23
  • Germania Judaica 2 (reprint 1968), p. 160

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personal data
SURNAME Derenburg, Samuel von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Derenburch; Smol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first court banker to the Archbishop of Magdeburg
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1382