Wenceslaus Nawmann

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Wenceslaus Nawmann (also Naumann ) (* around 1495; † 1553 in Dresden ) was a Saxon lawyer and politician . The civil servant who initially worked in Dresden as city clerk, councilor and mayor later switched to civil service and was Chancellor Duke Heinrichs von Sachsen .

Life

origin

Wenceslaus Nawmann probably came from Dresden. Other sources give the Lower Silesian city of Sagan as the place of origin. 1508 he is in the parish registers of the University of Leipzig called and studied law . From 1518 he is mentioned in various documents as Magister and Baccalaureus . In 1530 he received his doctorate in both rights . A Hieronymus Naumann , presumably his son, can also be identified as a student at Leipzig University in 1533.

Acting as town clerk and mayor in Dresden

In 1518 Wenceslaus Nawmann was appointed city ​​clerk of Dresden. As the most important civil servant in the city, he was responsible for the entire city chancellery as well as the handling of legal transactions. This included keeping city ​​and court books, drawing up judgments and documents, drafting important documents and drawing up the floor register . The increase in tasks made it necessary to hire a lower town clerk in 1521, who also acted as court clerk and took over the management of the floor and interest register. Nawmann was then appointed chief clerk and lawyer .

Like some of his predecessors in office, he was admitted to the council and elected mayor in 1525, but remained town clerk until 1526. In 1528 he held the mayor's office again, but left the council at the end of his reign.

Activity in ducal service

After giving up his council activity, Nawmann first moved to Leipzig in order to acquire a doctorate there in 1530. He then entered the service of Duke Heinrich the Pious, who appointed him Chancellor in 1533 and made him one of his advisors. In 1539 Nawmann is mentioned again as Chancellor in Freiberg , Heinrich's residence.

After Heinrich's death on August 18, 1541, his son Moritz took over the government of the country. Just a few months earlier, against his parents' wishes, he had married Agnes von Hessen . After taking power, Moritz decided to dismiss his father's councilors, who had been against the wedding, from their service. With that, Wenceslaus Nawmann resigned in exchange for a pension of 200 guilders and was replaced as Chancellor by Simon Pistoris .

Like his father, Duke Moritz implemented the ideas of the Reformation in his domain, confiscated Catholic church property and founded the princely schools in Schulpforta , Meißen and Grimma from the assets of dissolved monasteries . Since he did not want to do without the advice of his father's experienced advisors, Nawmann was rehabilitated in 1542. When Moritz was preparing for war against the Turks after the Wurzen feud had been settled, he set up a commission to deal with and decide on church issues, which included Chancellor Pistoris and Wenceslaus Nawmann.

In 1543 the sovereign appointed a consistory with its seat in Leipzig, which in future was to take care of all church affairs, in particular ecclesiastical jurisdiction . Nawmann was present in the negotiations on the acquisition of the spiritual duties of the pin Merseburg by Georg von Anhalt involved in April 1544th On February 16, 1545, another similar consistory was established in Meissen. The president of this authority was the Meissen bailiff Heinrich von Bünau , who was supported by three assessors. One of these assessors was Dr. Wenceslaus Nawmann. In 1550 the seat of the consistory was moved to Dresden. A few years later, probably in 1553, Nawmann died in Dresden.

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. ↑ Günther Wartenberg: Moritz von Sachsen and the Albertine church policy until 1546 , in: Sources and research on the history of the Reformation , Volume 55, Gütersloher Verlagshaus Mohn, 1988, ISBN 9783579016818 , p. 147
  2. ^ Albrecht Greule, Jörg Meier, Arne Ziegler (eds.): Chancellery language research: An international handbook. , Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2012. ISBN 9783110261882 , p. 463
  3. ↑ Viktor Hantzsch: Dresdner at universities from the 14th to the 17th century , in: Mitteilungen des Verein für Geschichte Dresdens, Volume 19, Verlag W. Baensch, 1906, p. 32.
  4. ^ Otto Richter: Constitutional and administrative history of the city of Dresden , Volume 1, Verlag W. Baensch, Dresden 1885, pp. 130 f.
  5. ↑ Uwe Schirmer: Kursächsische Staatsfinanzen (1456-1656): structures, constitution, functional elites , in: Sources and research on Saxon history , Volume 28, Verlag der Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 9783515089555 , p. 531, p. 571
  6. ↑ Helmar Junghans: The Century of the Reformation in Saxony , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2005, ISBN 9783374023110 , p. 81
  7. ^ Günther Wartenberg: Wittenberg Reformation and territorial politics: selected essays , in: Works on the history of the church and theology , Volume 11, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2003, ISBN 9783374020720 , p. 119.
  8. ^ Martin B. Lindau: History of the capital and residence city of Dresden from the earliest to the present time, Volume 1, Verlag Kuntze, 1858, p. 474
predecessor Office successor
  Greger Byner (1524, 1528) Mayor of Dresden
1525 , 1528 		  Hans Gleinig (1526, 1529)
personal data
SURNAME Nawmann, Wenceslaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Naumann, Wenceslaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon Chancellor, Dresden Councilor and Mayor
DATE OF BIRTH around 1495
DATE OF DEATH 1553
Place of death Dresden