Wolf Feurer

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Wolf Feurer (* unknown; † February 4, 1557 ) was mayor of the imperial city of Heilbronn from 1553 to 1557 .

Feurer came from one of the city's influential patrician families . Feurer was a member of the council in 1542 and later also of the court.

Feurer became known as a member of a three-man negotiating delegation in the Schmalkaldic War . Heilbronn had joined the Protestant Schmalkaldic League in 1538 ; From 1546 this was subject to the troops of Emperor Charles V , who was an opponent of the Reformation. The Heilbronn council sent Wolf Feurer together with two other envoys to the emperor in 1546 to negotiate the surrender of the city and prevent its destruction. Charles V spared the city on the condition that the city would terminate the alliance with the Schmalkaldic League and pay 20,000 guilders and provide board and lodging for the imperial army in Heilbronn. By deploying marauding Spanish troops in 1548, the emperor ensured that Heilbronn temporarily returned to the Catholic faith (for the time of the Augsburg interim ) before the Passau Treaty in 1552 suspended the interim and created freedom of belief.

As a result of the previous disputes with the city, the emperor reorganized the council constitution in 1552 and granted unrestricted power to the patrician families, who were less Reformation-minded in the emperor's opinion. From 1552 Feurer was mayor and from 1553 to 1557 he succeeded his brother Peter Feurer as mayor of Heilbronn .

Feurer is also known as Fuir and Fuirer. The family originally comes from Hall , where they belonged to the "Seven Castle families". The Heilbronner Feurer are related and related by marriage to Gerhard , Laemmlin , Lutwin , von Münchingen and Wigmar. The coat of arms has its origin in Schwäbisch Gmünd . Both the coat of arms and the crest show a unicorn, the head and front half of the body are white and the back half of the body are black.

literature

  • Albrecht Schäfer: The Heilbronner patriciate at the time of the family rule until 1371. In: Publications of the Heilbronn Historical Society. 21, 1954, ISSN  0175-9833 , pp. 157-179, esp. 166.
  • Bernd Klagholz: Heilbronn and its mayors in the period from the 16th to the 19th century. Tübingen 1980, p. 26, (Tübingen, Univ., Approval work).
personal data
SURNAME Fire, wolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuir, Fuirer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Heilbronn
DATE OF BIRTH before 1542
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1557