Kildehenvisninger
1. [Født: Før 1510 i Lübeck]
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2. [Død: Efter 1555 i Nexø Sogn, Bornholms Sønder Herred, Bornholm Amt]
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Biografi Oplysninger fra Michael Erichsen - GED-fil via mail
var son of a highly reckoned citizen from Lübeck, one Hartwig Hagefeldt, who died on February 29,
1555. None of the Bornholmer Hartwig/Hartvig's used the surname 'Hagefeldt'. A son of mayor Hartwig
is thought to be Cort Hartwig, who in 1572-73 was the manager of Hammershus Len.
Augustin Hartwig is the oldest known member of this Bornholmer family. He came to Bornholm during a
time when Lübeck had controlled Bornholm since circa 1525. King Frederik I had forfeited the
control of Bornholmto Lübeck for 50 years because of his inability to pay debts owed to the city;
which had aided him in wresting the throne from his brother. The natives of Bornholm are recorded
to have groaned under the Hansa's rule, and declared 'they would rather be under the Turks, than
under the German, Christian, imperial city.' Augustin is mentioned in records as being the Mayor of
Nexø(also spelled Neksø) in 1555.
A court case document from that year (1555) begins (in the original old danish):
'Wij effterne, Esbern Myre Byffogeth, Augustin Hartwick och Mickel Hansz Burgemester, Henrick
Moffue och Michel . . . . borgere y Nexö mett menige Bymendt bekenne obenbare for alle mett dette
vort offne breff, at Aaretc. MDLV . . . . dagen effter Catharinæpaa wort byting war skicket . .. .
och menige man erlig man Anthonius Wiltfangh . . . . paa herrenes (det lybske raad) wegne war
begerendes low och rett . . .'
This damaged document is kept by the state archives in the 'Samlinger til danske Kongers Historie',
also printed in 'Aktstykker til BornholmsHistorie', by D.J.R. Hübertz, 1851, page 251.