Valentin Heider

Valentin Heider in Anselm van Hulle : Les hommes illustres qui ont vécu dans le XVII. siecle: les principaux potentats .. , 1717.

Valentin Heider

Valentin Heider (born March 25, 1605 in Lindau ; † November 28, 1664 ibid) was a German lawyer and councilor of Lindau . He represented the interests of the Free Imperial Cities of Swabia at the Treaty of Westphalia .

Life

Valentin Heider came from the Lindau branch of the patrician dynasty of the Heider and was born as the second of eleven children of the Lindau council syndicate Daniel Heider . As the son of this respected councilor, he received a comprehensive education: First he attended the Latin school in Kempten . After studying law for five years in Strasbourg and Tübingen , he received his doctorate in Altdorf in 1627 . Study trips to France and Vienna followed .

From 1634 he acted as a syndic for the interests of his hometown in the imperial city; In this task he was sent to Vienna, Regensburg , as well as to Nuremberg and the Swabian district councils. At the Peace of Westphalia he represented the interests of the Protestant Swabian cities, including Kempten and Memmingen , and as the Württemberg ambassador also those of the Duke of Württemberg . Among other things, he preserved Lindau's independence as a free imperial city. Unlike his father, Heider did not write specialist legal literature, but continued to devote himself to politics.

Heider is considered to be the founder of the Lindau Children's Festival , which he founded in 1655 as President of the School Council. In recognition of his services to the whole of German Protestantism , especially to his hometown, the city of Lindau donated the Lärche estate to him , which served as his residence. As a respected patrician , Valentin Heider died at the age of 59 in his hometown. The symptoms described in his funeral sermon indicate a disease of stomach cancer .

In 1991 the Valentin-Heider-Gymnasium in Lindau was named after him.

family

Valentin Heider's family: the left part of the family tree comes from him

Valentin Heider's first marriage was from 1632 to Margarethe Pfister called Kreidenmann. She was the daughter of the Lindau merchant Ludwig Kreidenmann and died in 1645. The family, to which also the Esslingen city syndic and knighthood councilor Johann Konrad Kreidenmann belonged, was called "Pfister called Kreidenmann" - often the same person was sometimes called Pfister, sometimes called Kreidenmann, and was documented in Lindau as early as 1331, but only belonged to the patrician society Zum Sünzen after 1700. The Lindau councilor and merchant Ludwig Pfister called Kreidenmann (1542–1596) had received a letter of arms from Emperor Maximilian II in 1574 .

In his second marriage, Valentin Heider married Margaretha Elisabeth Gloxin (1629–1671) in Osnabrück in 1647 , daughter of the Lübeck mayor David Gloxin , whom he had met as Lübeck's syndic and envoy to the Peace of Westphalia.

From the first marriage there were 11 children, of which, apart from two, died young:

Johann Andreas Heider, the oldest son

Johann Andreas Heider, * January 6, 1639, † June 28, 1719, Herr zu Gitzenweiler Hof ("von Heider zu Gitzenweiler"), counselor of the imperial city of Lindau and ducal Württemberg secret council , received a confirmation of nobility in 1708 and an improvement in the coat of arms , ⚭ 1669 Anna Regina from Ebertz to Isny
Elisabeth Heider, * March 29, 1640, † June 15, 1707, ⚭ I. 1656 Georg Friedrich Wagner (1631–1672), Syndic of the Imperial City of Esslingen , son of Georg Wagner (1605–1661), Mayor of the Imperial City of Esslingen, envoy to the Peace of Westphalia and 1652 for the Reichstag in Regensburg, ⚭ II. 1674 Johann Balthasar von Rhauw (1645–1709), from Neustadt in Silesia , syndic of Esslingen. His hometown was Greifswald , he was also imperial and ducal councilor of Württemberg, 1700, 1703 and 1706 mayor of the imperial city of Esslingen. 1706 knightly imperial nobility for him and his son Friedrich Balthasar, adviser to the imperial knighthood. He was a son of Joachim Rhaw, archdeacon at St. Nikolai Cathedral (Greifswald) , nephew of theology professor Balthasar Rhaw (II.) And grandson of Pomeranian Chancellor Augustin Rhaw .

There were eight children from the second marriage:

Maria Christina Heider, born May 16, 1652 in Frankfurt am Main , † after 1695, buried in St. Anna (Augsburg) , ⚭ 1670 in Lindau Johann Jacob Kolb (1639–1695), buried in St. Anna in Augsburg , trainee lawyer of the City and marriage court of the imperial city of Augsburg, ducal Saxon-Weimar and ducal Holstein-Plön council, 1668 (following his father of the same name, the Augsburg syndic and councilor, in it) envoy of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck to the Regensburg Reichstag
Eberhard Heider, moved to Lübeck, † 1714, ⚭ 1675 in Augsburg Maria Sabina Koch von Gailenbach (1650–1712), daughter of the Augsburg patrician Johannes Koch von Gailenbach
Daughter Heider, * and † in Osnabrück
Margarethe Christina Heider, * and † in Nuremberg
Margarethe Christina Heider, * in Lindau, went to Frankfurt am Main
Maria Elisabeth Heider, † young
Johann Jacob Heider, † young
David August Heider, born August 8, 1655 in Lindau, † August 22, 1707 in Kaufbeuren , ducal councilor and court judge of Tübingen , syndic of the imperial city of Kaufbeuren, ⚭ I. 1680 in Tübingen Maria Clara Bayer (1658–1695), ⚭ II 1695 in Lindau Catharina Ursula von Furtenbach

literature

Werner Dobras: Heider, Valentin in the Internet portal Westphalian Peace

Karl Kiefer: The Lindau branch of the Haider family, von Heider and von Haider zu Gitzenweiler. A genealogical sketch , in: Writings of the association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings , 36th year 1907, pp. 154-164 Lake Constance libraries

Gerold Meyer von Knonau : Heider, Valentin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 304 f.

Web links

Valentin Heider in the Westphalian History portal

Individual evidence

↑ Anja Spickereit: Causes of death in funeral sermons from the 16th to 18th centuries in selected Upper German imperial cities and in the Memmingen registers of the deceased from 1740-1809 , dissertation on obtaining a doctorate in medicine from the Medical Faculty of Ulm University, 2011, p. 112 f .

^ Karl Kiefer: The Lindau branch of the Haider family, von Heider and von Haider zu Gitzenweiler. A genealogical sketch , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings, 36th year 1907, pp. 154-164, Appendix 1: Family tree of the Lindau patrician family von Heider .

↑ Anja Spickereit: Causes of death in funeral sermons from the 16th to the 18th century in selected Upper German imperial cities and in the Memmingen registers of the deceased from 1740-1809 , dissertation on obtaining a doctorate in medicine from the Medical Faculty of Ulm University, 2011, p. 112.

^ Alfred Otto Stolze: Der Sünzen zu Lindau: the patriciate of a Swabian imperial city , 1956, p. 126.

^ Stammblatt Family Foundation Merkel and Zeller; Ferdinand Friedrich Faber: The Württemberg Family Foundations , Stuttgart 1853, p. 22.

↑ Acts on the award of the imperial coat of arms in the Austrian State Archives

^ Antjekathrin Graßmann : Gloxin family , in: Alken Bruns (Ed.): Lübecker Lebenslaufen. Neumünster: Wachholtz 1993 ISBN 3529027294 , p. 159

↑ Die Selige Todten , Lindau 1709, p. 38.

^ Karl Pfaff: History of the Imperial City of Esslingen , Esslingen am Neckar 1852, p. 735 f.

↑ Anja Spickereit: Causes of death in funeral sermons from the 16th to 18th centuries in selected Upper German imperial cities and in the Memmingen registers of the deceased from 1740-1809 , dissertation on obtaining a doctorate in medicine from the Medical Faculty of Ulm University, 2011, p. 105 ff .

^ Das Teutsche Reichs-Archiv , 1714, p. 523.

^ Files in the Austrian State Archives

↑ Der Baum des Lebens , 1728, p. 275 (funeral sermon for the son Friedrich Balthasar von Rhaw)

↑ She attended her husband's funeral on March 4, 1695 in St. Anne's Church. On February 10, 1695, a few days before her husband's death on February 27, she also wrote a letter to her cousin August Hermann Francke on the occasion of his wedding.

↑ Georg Wilhelm Zapf: Augsburg Library , Volume 1, Augsburg 1795, p. 333.

^ Funeral sermon on his death, Augsburg 1695 ( digital copy )

^ Kurtz-framed and thorough description of the Reichstages , 1730, p. 248.

^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, archive unit GA No. 1425 (funeral sermon 1695 to his brother-in-law Johann Jacob Kolb)

^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, funeral sermons to members of the Hehl, Heider, Heilbrunner and Heiland families (for his wife Maria Clara Heider née Bayer)

^ Karl Kiefer: The Lindau branch of the Haider family, von Heider and von Haider zu Gitzenweiler. A genealogical sketch , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings, 36th year 1907, pp. 154-164.

personal data
SURNAME	Heider, Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and councilor of Lindau
DATE OF BIRTH	March 25, 1605
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lindau
DATE OF DEATH	November 28, 1664
Place of death	Lindau

[1] Anja Spickereit: Causes of death in funeral sermons from the 16th to 18th centuries in selected Upper German imperial cities and in the Memmingen registers of the deceased from 1740-1809 , dissertation on obtaining a doctorate in medicine from the Medical Faculty of Ulm University, 2011, p. 112 f .

[2] Karl Kiefer: The Lindau branch of the Haider family, von Heider and von Haider zu Gitzenweiler. A genealogical sketch , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings, 36th year 1907, pp. 154-164, Appendix 1: Family tree of the Lindau patrician family von Heider .

[3] Anja Spickereit: Causes of death in funeral sermons from the 16th to the 18th century in selected Upper German imperial cities and in the Memmingen registers of the deceased from 1740-1809 , dissertation on obtaining a doctorate in medicine from the Medical Faculty of Ulm University, 2011, p. 112.

[4] Alfred Otto Stolze: Der Sünzen zu Lindau: the patriciate of a Swabian imperial city , 1956, p. 126.

[5] Stammblatt Family Foundation Merkel and Zeller; Ferdinand Friedrich Faber: The Württemberg Family Foundations , Stuttgart 1853, p. 22.

[6] Acts on the award of the imperial coat of arms in the Austrian State Archives

[7] Antjekathrin Graßmann : Gloxin family , in: Alken Bruns (Ed.): Lübecker Lebenslaufen. Neumünster: Wachholtz 1993 ISBN 3529027294 , p. 159

[8] Die Selige Todten , Lindau 1709, p. 38.

[9] Karl Pfaff: History of the Imperial City of Esslingen , Esslingen am Neckar 1852, p. 735 f.

[10] Anja Spickereit: Causes of death in funeral sermons from the 16th to 18th centuries in selected Upper German imperial cities and in the Memmingen registers of the deceased from 1740-1809 , dissertation on obtaining a doctorate in medicine from the Medical Faculty of Ulm University, 2011, p. 105 ff .

[11] Das Teutsche Reichs-Archiv , 1714, p. 523.

[12] Files in the Austrian State Archives

[13] Der Baum des Lebens , 1728, p. 275 (funeral sermon for the son Friedrich Balthasar von Rhaw)

[14] She attended her husband's funeral on March 4, 1695 in St. Anne's Church. On February 10, 1695, a few days before her husband's death on February 27, she also wrote a letter to her cousin August Hermann Francke on the occasion of his wedding.

[15] Georg Wilhelm Zapf: Augsburg Library , Volume 1, Augsburg 1795, p. 333.

[16] Funeral sermon on his death, Augsburg 1695 ( digital copy )

[17] Kurtz-framed and thorough description of the Reichstages , 1730, p. 248.

[18] Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, archive unit GA No. 1425 (funeral sermon 1695 to his brother-in-law Johann Jacob Kolb)

[19] Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, funeral sermons to members of the Hehl, Heider, Heilbrunner and Heiland families (for his wife Maria Clara Heider née Bayer)

[20] Karl Kiefer: The Lindau branch of the Haider family, von Heider and von Haider zu Gitzenweiler. A genealogical sketch , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings, 36th year 1907, pp. 154-164.