Theodor Varmeier

Theodor Varmeier (born April 9, 1587 in Osnabrück , † January 27, 1642 in Rostock ) was a German lawyer .

Life

Theodor Varmeier was a son of the lawyer of the same name, who was in the service of the Osnabrück bishop as a councilor and count . In May 1610 he began studying at the University of Rostock . During the Rostock Whitsun Market, on the night of June 4th to 5th, 1610, he got into one of the usual tavern fights among Rostock students, in which his right hand was almost completely cut off. The culprit was the son of a Livonian nobleman. He and an accomplice were arrested. Varmeier's hand had to be amputated after four days. In order to avoid emotional complications, the loss was initially hidden from him using an artificial hand. One of the treating doctors was Johann Bacmeister. Varmeier's father asked the rector of the University Ernst Cothmann and his master, Osnabrück Bishop Philipp Sigismund von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , to stand up for his son. Relatives and friends of the prisoners had counterclaimed defamation. Since both perpetrators had a bad reputation, the bail was set so high that their families could not pay it, they remained in custody until October 1610 and complained about "contained in the same jail and stink up to anitzo and marceriret in it." being torqued ”and“ lying fatally ill at different times ”. The Mecklenburg Duke Adolf Friedrich ultimately ensured that the proceedings were concluded; the perpetrators were released from custody on December 19, 1610 against bail and original feud .

Theodor Varmeier had meanwhile continued his studies. In 1611 he was the first respondent to a disputation . Three of his brothers also studied in Rostock. At the beginning of 1617, shortly before earning his doctorate, he became engaged to Elisabeth Bacmeister, the daughter of the physician Johann Bacmeister . On April 16, 1617 he passed his exam and on May 22 he received his doctorate . She then married Elisabeth Bacmeister, who was only 15 years old. His legal career was successful, whereas many blows of fate followed in the domestic sphere: The first child was born dead, and in 1621 his wife, who was just 19 years old, died giving birth to the third child. On November 27, 1621, he married the widow Elisabeth Drewenstedt, a daughter of the head of the Marienkirche . He had four children with her, one of whom died in 1630.

In January 1631 his brother Jakob Varmeier murdered the colonel of the imperial troops in Rostock. After his death as a result of severe torture, the corpse was quartered and the body parts hung on the gates of the city until the imperial troops withdrew and the Swedes moved in on October 6, 1631. Theodor Varmeier's deed and the constant presence of his body parts weighed heavily on Theodor Varmeier. In addition, his youngest daughter and his wife died, and not long afterwards he lost two sons. In 1634 he married Katharina Hasse, with whom he lived for four years before she also died. He served as a lawyer, professor at the university and vice-president of the regional and court courts, but was a broken man. He died on January 27, 1642 and was buried in Rostock's Marienkirche .

literature

• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 10313 .

Web links

• Publications by and about Theodor Varmeier in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Magazine on empirical soul science . tape 3 , 1785 ( uni-bielefeld.de ).
2. ^ Registration of Theodor Varmeier in the Rostock matriculation portal
3. ^ Adolf Hofmeister: The Varmeier brothers and the murder of Colonel HL von Hatzfeld in 1631 . In: Contributions to the history of the city of Rostock . tape 7 . Hinstorff, 1913, ISSN  1615-0988 , p. 82 ( gbv.de [PDF; 87 kB ]).
4. ↑ Theodor Varmeier's exams and doctorate in the Rostock matriculation portal