Tideman Huxer

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Tidemann Huxer († after 1420 ) was a merchant , shipowner and mayor of the legal city of Danzig from 1402 to 1418.

Life

Tideman Huxer came from a merchant family from Elbing , which may have come from Wismar in Mecklenburg.

In 1382 he was registered as a merchant as a citizen of Danzig. In 1390 he became a councilor . From 1393 he worked as an envoy and malefactor of the Prussian cities in the western Hanseatic region, especially in Denmark . In 1394 he also became a judge in Danzig.

In 1402 Tideman Huxer was appointed one of the four mayors of the right city of Danzig. In 1405 he was appointed to mediate lawsuits between the Prussian cities and England . In 1410 he was named one of the richest shipowners in Danzig. Its trading activity extended to the Netherlands and possibly northern France.

In 1411 Huxer was invited to the castle in Gdansk with the mayors Conrad Letzkau and Arnold Hecht for talks with the order commander Heinrich von Plauen . However, he returned on the way there. The other council members were killed there.

In 1416 he was briefly deposed in the civil uprising in Danzig and his house was looted. He then returned to the office that he held until 1418. Tideman Huxer became impoverished in the last years of his life. In 1420 he was mentioned again as the ambassador of the Prussian cities in Denmark. The year of his death is unknown. Tideman Huxer was buried in the Carthusian monastery Marienparadies near Danzig.

Marriage and offspring

The wife is not known. They had as children

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑
    • Albrecht Huxer, Ratmann in Elbing 1361. (M. Toeppen: Peter Himmelreich's Und Michael Friedwald's, Des Lowentodters, Elbingisch-Prussische Histories . Leipzig 1881. Reprint)
    • Johann Huxer, Mayor of Thorn 1435, active in the Prussian Confederation ( certificate )
    • Arnold Huxer († 1446), cathedral curator in Warmia 1433–1446, grave slab in the cathedral in Frombork (Frauenburg), ( Biogram )
  2. ^ Otto Grotefend: Mecklenburg in Danzig. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 70. 1905. pp. 49–152, here p. 85 mentions a Thidemann Huxer, 1434 as the son of a citizen of Wismar Thidemann Huxer
personal data
SURNAME Huxer, Tideman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huxer, Tydeman van; Huxer, Thideman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Merchant, shipowner and mayor of the legal city of Gdansk
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH after 1420