Hieronymus Lueneburg

Hieronymus Lüneburg (* before 1523; † February 26, 1580 in Lübeck ) was Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck. He was the fourth mayor of the influential Lüneburg family .

Live and act

Signature page of the Peace of Stettin with the signatures of the Lübeck mayors Hieronymus Lüneburg and Christoph Tode and the Lübeck Syndicus Calixtus Schein right below the center

Hieronymus Lüneburg was the son of councilor Johann Lüneburg, who died in 1529 . He had been a member of the council since 1558 and was elected mayor three years later in 1561 . His work mainly related to the use and effects of the naval war against Sweden, the last war that the city of Lübeck waged during the Hanseatic League . He concluded the alliance with Denmark in Segeberg in 1563 , was a delegate at the peace negotiations in Rostock in 1564 and signed the Stettin Peace Treaty in 1570 as a representative of the Hanseatic League . In 1579, as Friedrich Bruns suspected, he voluntarily gave up his council chair for health reasons.

Hieronymus Lüneburg was married three times, including Elisabeth, a daughter of Nikolaus Brömse , and had a son of the same name and several daughters. He owned the Moisling estate , which fell to the von Hoeveln family through his granddaughter and later became the Lübeck district of the same name.

From 1564 he was the owner of his father's house at Königstrasse 5 .

Literature and Sources

Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lückeckische families from older times , Lübeck 1859, p. 56ff. (Digitized version)
Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line . Lübeck 1925, No. 666
Documents from Hans-Thorald Michaelis

Individual evidence

↑ His mother mentions him in a letter to her brother-in-law Mathias Mulich dated January 23, 1523
^ Friedrich Bruns †: The Lübeck Council. Composition, addition and management, from the beginning to the 19th century. In: ZVLGA , Volume 32 (1951), pp. 1–69, pp. 60/61 (Chapter 9: Conclusion of Council Membership )
↑ Königstrasse 1-10 (pdf, accessed December 7, 2014)

personal data
SURNAME	Lueneburg, Hieronymus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mayor of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1530
DATE OF DEATH	February 26, 1580
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] His mother mentions him in a letter to her brother-in-law Mathias Mulich dated January 23, 1523

[2] Friedrich Bruns †: The Lübeck Council. Composition, addition and management, from the beginning to the 19th century. In: ZVLGA , Volume 32 (1951), pp. 1–69, pp. 60/61 (Chapter 9: Conclusion of Council Membership )

[3] Königstrasse 1-10 (pdf, accessed December 7, 2014)