Syndicus of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
Syndicus of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (also known historically as Stadtsyndicus ) were the Syndici who advised the Bremen Council and later the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen as legal scholars and later as lawyers , carried out assignments for it and later managed offices. Today the position is also comparable to that of a Council of State .
The Syndici took part in the meetings of the Council and the Senate in an advisory capacity. They had to perform duties in court, in the chancellery of the council or the senate, in the archives and other assigned duties. The Syndicus was mostly at the head of the Council or Senate Chancellery.
history
The Syndicus office has been handed down in Bremen since 1492. From 1634 there was also the office of Vice-Syndicus . The names 1. Syndicus and 2. Syndicus can be found in the sources. The office - initially granted on a temporary basis - then became indefinite, and it often ended only with the death of the office holder.
However, this position was not always filled. At times, especially in the 18th century, the office was equated with that of archivist . During the French times there were no Syndici in Bremen. In 1813 the position was reintroduced. Since 1823, however, the Senate Chancellery has been headed by a Senator named Director. The two Syndici were legal advisers. On April 19, 1849 this office was dissolved. From 1913 on there were Syndici again as representatives of individual senators. In 1921 six Syndici took on the task; they were now called councilors of state . Only the head of the Bremen State Archives initially retained the title Syndicus, but was then referred to as State Archivist from 1933.
More information
A syndic (Greek: σύνδικος) is otherwise nowadays a lawyer who makes his work available to a non-lawyer employer (e.g. company, association, foundation) due to a permanent employment relationship. The Bremen merchants - represented today by the Bremen Chamber of Commerce - had and still has a syndic.
Hamburg knows the comparable Senate Syndicus , which is now known as the Council of State and which, as a civil servant, was attached to a senator as head of a senatorial authority.
Well-known Bremen (city) syndici
Selection, sorted by time
- Diedrich Lange (Dr. Diricus Lange ) † 1641 in Regensburg , First Legal Counsel (around 1632–1641) and office director
- Gerlach Buxdorff , Syndicus, left his books to the city in 1628
- Johann Wachmann the Elder (1592–1659), Syndicus (1634–1659?)
- Johann Wachmann the Younger (1611–1685), Syndicus (17th century)
- Liborius Line , Syndicus (17th century), possibly also or only a councilor from Bremen
- Burchard Eden (1618–1689), Syndicus (1646–1661), 1661 Bremen envoy to the Reichstag
- Gerhard von Mastricht (1639–1721) was from 1989 to 1721 Syndicus von Bremen
- Everhard Otto (1685-1756), Syndicus
- Wilhelm Friedrich Hombergk , Syndicus (1761–1763)
- Dr. Franz Köhne (1690–1760), Syndicus, the Syndicushof in Bremen- Walle was named after him
- Caspar Meyer , Syndicus until 1766
- Simon Hermann Post (1724–1808), lawyer and chancellery director (1763–1808), was also an archivist (1753–1763), son of Hermann Post
- Johann von Eelking (1748–1806), Syndicus (1771–1806)
- Christian Hermann Schöne (1763–1822), Syndicus (1792–1817 with interruptions during the French era), 1817 Mayor of Bremen
- Georg Olbers, Syndicus until 1825
- Heinrich Gröning (1774–1839), Syndicus (1808–1811, 1817–1821), Mayor of Bremen in 1821
- Friedrich Wilhelm Heineken (1787-1848), Syndicus (1818-1848); from 1822 to 1848 he was also a senator
- Georg Heinrich Olbers (1790–1861), lawyer 1822–1825, then senator
- Albert Georg Benjamin Gröning (1784–1843), Syndicus (1822–1843)
- August Ferdinand Arnold Iken (1793–1853), Syndicus (1829–1849), then judge
- Heinrich Smidt (1806–1878), Syndicus (1843–1849), Senator (1849–1878), archivist (1832–1849)
- Georg Wilhelm Albers (1800–1876), Syndicus in 1844, Senator since 1847
- Johann Focke (1848–1922), Syndicus 1898, founder of the Focke Museum in Bremen
- Arthur Ulrich (1882–1958), lawyer, syndic of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce, 1913 syndic of Bremen
- Richard Duckwitz (1886–1972), Syndicus (around 1921), Finance Senator in 1934, later Acting Mayor
See also
- List of Bremen State Councilors and Deputies of Senators
- Senate Syndicus for the comparable office in Hamburg and Syndicus of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Nicola Wurthmann: Senators, friends and families . State Archive Bremen Vol. 69, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-925729-55-3 .
