Wolf Fischer

Wolf Fischer lived in the 16th century and was the last mayor of Altendresden . After the city was incorporated into Dresden in 1549, he was a councilor on the Dresden city council.

Life

Mayor of Altendresden

Wolf Fischer was a citizen of the city of Altendresden on the right bank of the Elbe and from 1537 a member of the council. Nothing is known about his origin and professional activity. However, there were only a few merchants and owners of larger properties in Altendresden , so that the residents mostly lived from agriculture or worked as craftsmen. In 1541 Fischer was elected mayor of Altendresden and also held this office in 1543, 1546 and 1549.

Since there were repeated disputes between Altendresden and Dresden over various urban privileges such as brewing and market rights , Elector Moritz issued an order on March 29, 1549, which stipulated the amalgamation of the two cities and the dissolution of the Altendresden council. In future, administration should be carried out solely by the Dresden Council. The council and citizens of Altendresdens were then ordered to the town hall, where the decree was read out. However, the Altendresdner councilors initially refused to take the required citizenship oath to the new authorities. Mayor Wolf Fischer and town clerk Johann Prüfer then traveled to Torgau to persuade the elector to withdraw his command. Moritz, however, had them both arrested for insubordination and arrested in Schweinitz for a week . It was only after both of them had sworn not to object to the order any further that fishermen and examiners were released.

Member of the Dresden Council

The official unification of the two cities was also formally completed on August 18, 1550. At the same time, the elector stipulated that two councilors from Altendresden had to be admitted to the Dresden council. The choice fell on the previous mayor Wolf Fischer and the councilor Nicolaus Mader. In 1556 Fischer was mentioned for the last time in the list of council members.

Historically, Fischer's contacts with the reformer Philipp Melanchthon , who stayed in Dresden several times, mostly during official negotiations. In 1555, Fischer asked Melanchthon in a letter to find a teacher to supervise the studies for his son Michael in Wittenberg as well as accommodation and food for the staff.

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

↑ Robert Mund: Altendresden in the late Middle Ages , in: The city books of Dresden (1404–1535) and Altendresdens (1412–1528), Volume 1, edited by Thomas Kübler, Jens Klingner, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2007, ISBN 9783865832122 , p. 50 ff .
^ William Hammer: Sources and research on the history of the Reformation , in: Writings of the Association for the History of the Reformation , Volume 49, Verlag M. Heinsius Nachf., 1981, ISBN 9783579048901 , p. 674.

personal data
SURNAME	Fisherman, wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dresden councilor, mayor of Altendresden
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1537
DATE OF DEATH	after 1556

[1] Robert Mund: Altendresden in the late Middle Ages , in: The city books of Dresden (1404–1535) and Altendresdens (1412–1528), Volume 1, edited by Thomas Kübler, Jens Klingner, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2007, ISBN 9783865832122 , p. 50 ff .

[2] William Hammer: Sources and research on the history of the Reformation , in: Writings of the Association for the History of the Reformation , Volume 49, Verlag M. Heinsius Nachf., 1981, ISBN 9783579048901 , p. 674.