Theodoricus Lyndemann

Theodoricus Lyndemann (also Dietrich Lindemann, Lindeman , † 1552 ) was a Dresden pedagogue, councilor and mayor .

Life

Activity as schoolmaster and council member

Lyndemann came from Leipzig and studied law before he was appointed schoolmaster at the Dresden Kreuzschule in 1522 as Georg Döring's successor .

From 1525 Magister Theodoricus Lyndemann was a member of the city council and initially took over the office of defeat and pan lord. Both offices were closely related to economic activity in the city and brought substantial financial resources to the council. Merchants who wanted to transport their goods to Bohemia first had to offer them for sale in Dresden for a few days and pay fees for them. The Pfannenamt, on the other hand, drew its income from lending the council's own brewing pans to citizens who had the right to brew . From 1537 onwards, Lyndemann was responsible for collecting and managing the hereditary and capital interest . Two years earlier he had officially been granted citizenship of the city.

Political activity as mayor

In 1542 Lyndemann was elected mayor of Dresden and took over this office again in 1545 and, after an interruption due to the political situation, again in 1551. As a staunch supporter of the Reformation , he, together with his counterparts Peter Byner and Hans Gleinig, voted for a possible rule by the Ernestines pronounced in Saxony and thus against the sovereign Duke Moritz . In this context, Lyndemann threatened Moritz's followers, in the event of a possible attack on the city , of hanging the imperial loyalists over the wall in spite of the attackers . Moritz therefore had the three mayors interrogated and charged in May 1547. On the advice of the investigating court, however, the verdicts were mild and all three were allowed to return to their council offices.

family

Little is known about Lyndemann's origins. However, a letter he wrote on January 4, 1526 shows a relationship to Martin Luther . In this letter he writes:

"Greet my relative M. Luther, who, as a baccalaureate, once welcomed me to Erfurt in the Georgenburse at the same time as Konrad Hutter from Eisenach for a few days."

- Letter from Lindemann to Stephan Roth : Zwickau Council Archives

When he died after Easter 1552, he left behind a still underage son. In 1558 the council asked the Wittenberg professor Philipp Melanchton to support the young Dietrich Lindemann in his studies at the Wittenberg University .

literature

• Sieglinde Richter-Nickel: The venerable council of Dresden , in: Dresdner Geschichtsbuch No. 5, Dresden City Museum (ed.); DZA Verlag for Culture and Science, Altenburg 1999, ISBN 3-9806602-1-4 .
• Otto Richter: Constitutional and administrative history of the city of Dresden , Volume 1, Verlag W. Baensch, Dresden 1885.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Otto Meltzer : Die Kreuzschule zu Dresden up to the introduction of the Reformation (1539) , in: Communications of the Association for the History and Topography of Dresden and its Surroundings , Verlag C. Tittmann, 1886, p. 44
2. ↑ Heinrich Butte: History of Dresden until the Reformation , in: Mitteldeutsche Forschungen , Volume 54, Böhlau Verlag, 1967, p. 264
3. ↑ Klaus-Bernwart Springer: Luther as a student of the arts and student life , in: Communications of the Association for the History and Antiquity of Erfurt, Issue 72, New Series Issue 19/2011, Issue 19, Sutton Verlag, 2011, ISBN 9783866808119 , P. 87
4. ↑ William Hammer: The Melanchtonforschung in the course of the centuries , in: Sources and research on the history of the Reformation , Volume 3, Edition 49, Verlag M. Heinsius Nachf., 1981, p. 674.

predecessor	Office	successor
Hans Gleinig (1541, 1544) Peter Byner (1550)	Mayor of Dresden 1542 , 1545 , 1551	Peter Byner (1543, 1546) Andreas Pfeilschmidt (1552)