Wendel Ans the Younger

Wendel Ans the Younger (* unknown; † 1575 ) was Mayor of Heilbronn from 1552 to 1572 .

Life

The Ans family is also known under the names Anß, Anns, Annß, Ahns, Ons and Ohns. She belonged to the patrician families in Heilbronn and originally came from Langenau . Members of the family immigrated to Heilbronn around the middle of the 15th century. Wendel Ans belonged to the council of the imperial city of Heilbronn ( "von den Burgern" ) until 1538 at the latest , which was composed of the Heilbronn patricians , who in turn proposed their successors. Ans is recorded as a council member for 1538, 1540, 1542, 1544 and 1546, he was deputy mayor in 1549, and from 1552 to 1572 he was mayor of Heilbronn .

In 1538 Heilbronn joined the Reformation Schmalkaldic League . In 1546, the imperial troops triumphed over the Schmalkaldener in Württemberg and Heilbronn was in danger of siege and destruction. Ans represented the council of Heilbronn in Esslingen in the consultation of the Upper German cities with Duke Christoph von Württemberg on the connection to the emperor-loyal North German prince union of Moritz von Sachsen. Heilbronn joined in and paid 5000 guilders in gold. Later, Emperor Charles V also brought Ans a generous gift as a token of loyalty to the city. The emperor, who still held a criminal court in Heilbronn in 1546, strengthened the power of the patricians in the city after the Passau Treaty of 1552 with the aristocratic regimental order , because he believed that he saw these opposing forces against the Reformation . In 1552 Ans became one of the three mayors of the city and remained so until 1572.

After Ans's first wife died, he married Biancessora Reinbold in 1554. With her he had four children: Barbara, Elias, Christoph and Maria. His daughter Barbara later married the mayor Wilhelm Bernhard Berlin and after his death the mayor David Jakob Feyerabend . Ans' son Elias married Maria Rollwag and had a daughter with her, Anna Maria, who was later also married to two mayors: first to Philipp Orth the Elder. J. and after his death with Johann Georg Spitzer . Ans' daughter Maria married Dietrich Orth, their son Johann Philipp Orth was also mayor from 1633 to 1635. The close family ties of the Heilbronn patricians were entirely political, as people in law could also be admitted to the powerful patrician council.

literature

• Bernd Klagholz: Heilbronn and its mayors in the period from the 16th to the 19th century. Tübingen 1980, p. 28, (Tübingen, Univ., Approval work).
• Max Cramer : Heilbronn families. Rembold, Heilbronn 1903, p. 13ff.

See also

• List of mayors of Heilbronn