Werner von der Schulenburg (governor)

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Werner von der Schulenburg as a minor figure in the group around Elector Albrecht Achilles of Brandenburg on Siegesallee in Berlin-Tiergarten (made and installed between 1899 and 1901, today kept in the lapidarium and partially damaged)

Werner von der Schulenburg (* before April 20, 1460 ; † before August 12, 1515 in Stettin ) was a statesman in the Pomeranian and Brandenburg service.

Life

Werner von der Schulenburg came from the so-called black line of the Altmark noble family von der Schulenburg . Nothing is known about his childhood and youth. He was - contrary to the information in the ADB  - on September 29, 1460 still of underage age, on April 12, 1463, however, already of age.

Elector Friedrich II of Brandenburg is said to have called him one of his bravest vassals . During a war between Pomerania and Brandenburg in 1468 he was appointed commander of the conquered town of Gartz on the Oder by Friedrich II . In 1472 Prenzlau was concluded and Werner von der Schulenburg received Löcknitz Castle to cover his costs.

In 1477 Gartz was retaken by Pomeranian troops by means of a ruse. Werner von der Schulenburg had to surrender to the attackers. In the following year there was a counter-attack by the Brandenburgers under Elector Albrecht I Achilles . The Pomeranian Duke Bogislaw X saw himself compelled to conclude peace, which took place in 1479 under the mediation of Werner von der Schulenburg. He won the trust of the duke, who appointed him captain of the state of Stettin and enfeoffed him with the castle and the city of Penkun . At the same time he was appointed court master by the elector and enfeoffed with Löcknitz.

He succeeded in working for the maintenance of the peace between Brandenburg and Pomerania. Together with Chancellor Georg Kleist , he worked on the reorganization of the financial and judicial systems in Pomerania and took action against muggers. During the Duke's pilgrimage to Palestine in 1496 , he was given the administration of Pomerania. After the Duke's return, arguments broke out between Bogislaw X. and Werner von der Schulenburg because Werner did not agree to the introduction of Roman law propagated by Bogislaw X. in Pomerania, as a result of which Werner withdrew from Schulenburg to Löcknitz. However, he continued to take over duties for the duke. So he mediated 1503 in the dispute between Bogislaw X. and the city of Stettin and in 1504 in the dispute between Bogislaw X. and Stralsund . He was then employed several times as a diplomat, for example in 1514 at the court of King Sigismund I of Poland .

The year of his death is not entirely certain. Julius Heidemann wrote in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 1891 that he last appeared in a document from 1517 and that he died in 1519. In contrast, the genealogist Georg Schmidt states in 1899: "He died in 1515 (according to all genealogical reports 1519, but his 3 sons were enfeoffed after their father died on August 12, 1515) in Stettin, where he was also buried in St. Otten." Uta Lehnert wrote: "He died in 1515, not 1519, as is often claimed."

Bust in the Siegesallee

For the former Berliner Siegesallee , the sculptor Otto Lessing designed a marble bust of Schulenburg as a side figure of monument group 17 to the central statue for Elector Albrecht Achilles, unveiled on August 28, 1900. The bust shows Schulenburg as a young man in warlike costume and with a chain of the Swan Order .

literature

  • Julius Heidemann:  Schulenburg, Werner v. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 674-676.
  • Dirk Schleinert , Schulenburg, Werner von der , in: Biographisches Lexikon von Pommern, Vol. 3 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania, Series V: Research on Pomeranian History, Vol. 48/3) , Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2019, ed . v. Dirk Alvermann and Nils Jörn, pp. 286–288.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Schmidt : The family from the Schulenburg . Part II family tables. Beetzendorf 1899, p. 103.
  2. ^ Julius Heidemann:  Schulenburg, Werner v. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 674-676.
  3. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel: Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis: Collection of documents, chronicles and other source documents. Part 3 Volume 2. G. Reimer, Berlin 1860, p. 474, Google Books
  4. ^ Georg Schmidt: The family from the Schulenburg . Part II family tables. Beetzendorf 1899, p. 116.
  5. ↑ Uta Lehnert: The Kaiser and the Siegesallee. Réclame Royale . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-496-01189-0 , p. 161.
personal data
SURNAME Schulenburg, Werner von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Statesman in the Pomeranian and Brandenburg service
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH before August 12, 1515
Place of death Szczecin