List of secretaries of the Hanseatic Office in Bruges

List of secretaries at the Hanseatic Office in Bruges , which moved from Bruges to Antwerp in the wake of the decline . First mentioned are secretaries or clerks in the resolutions of the German merchant in Bruges on funerals etc. of November 25, 1375. Until the 15th century, they are more in the background towards the elderly - the elected representatives of the merchant - in the tradition. It was only in the course of the early 15th century that its importance for the business of the office became clear. At least two secretaries at the same time can be proven in the early days, and three in the first half of the 15th century. It is undisputed that the secretaries were well trained from the start. This was absolutely necessary because they had to have legal and linguistic knowledge and skills in contact with the Flemish-Burgundian clerks, with the authorities of the city of Bruges as well as with the councils and messengers of the cities.

Bruges

Name and dates of life	Education	Term of office	Special features and comments	Illustration
Albertus van Halle		1382 Dec. 5.	Reports to Lübeck about the consequences of the battle of Roosebeke for the German businessman.
Goswin Boemhauwers van Coesvelt	Cologne	exp. 1412, 1421, 1441-1466
Gobelinus Marten		exp. 1431 -	Mentioned in 1435 as an imperial and papal notary.
Johann Swin		Verifiable from the end of 1437 to 1444	Master of Arts.
Johann Gebink		Detectable from 1437 to 1451.	Canon of St. Severin in Cologne.
Hinrich Stammel	Rostock	1449–	Before 1448 secretary in the Hanseatic office on Bryggen in Bergen .
Paulus van dem Velde	Rostock	1511-1517	Magister, later council secretary in Lübeck

Antwerp

Name and dates of life	Education	Term of office	Special features and comments	Illustration
Olof Roterdes , also Olav Rotherts		1539-1543	Magister, probably as early as 1530 secretary in Bruges, sp. City Secretary in Deventer
Nicolaus Wulff	Rostock Wittenberg	1543-1548	Magister, later council secretary in Lübeck
Jakob Raven († 1558)	Rostock	1548-1557	Magister. Previously secretary of the Hansekontor in Bergen
Nicholas Popping	Wittenberg Rostock	1558-1564	Magister, later council secretary in Lübeck
Georg von Laffert († 1582)	Rostock?	1564-1582
Johann von Langen as Undersecretary from 1570 to 1573
Adolf Osnabrück		1582-1596	Initially from 1576 as undersecretary, after the death of Georg von Laffert from 1582 as secretary until 1596. Was also employed as secretary of the Hanseatic League and represented as secretary in Antwerp by the lawyer Caspar Schürmann when he was absent .

See also

• List of secretaries at the Hansekontor in Bergen

literature

• Walther Stein: The cooperative of German merchants in Bruges in Flanders. Berlin 1890.
• Walter Evers: The Hansische Kontor in Antwerp , Kiel 1915, p. 140.
• Volker Henn : About the beginnings of the Brügger Hansekontor , in: Hansische Geschichtsblätter 107 (1989), pp. 43–66.

Web links

• Protocol book of the Hanseatic Office in Antwerp (fol. 1-312) , 1539–1557. In the findingaid ofthe archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , call number: 0484

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hanserecesse I, 2, No. 98 § 1 (p. 111): des coopmans clerck
2. ↑ Walther Stein assumed that the secretaries had a "learned education" from the start. On the secretaries as a whole, Stein, Genossenschaft, pp. 71–80.
3. ↑ Hanserecesse I, 2, No. 256 (p. 308ff.).
4. ↑ Stein, Genossenschaft, pp. 73f. m. Note 1 and 3 on p. 74.
5. ↑ Hanserecesse II, 1, No. 52 § 2 (p. 34).
6. ^ Clericus Coloniensis, publicus sacris apostolica et imperiali auctoritatibus notarius . Stein, Genossenschaft, p. 75, note 1.
7. ↑ Stein, Genossenschaft, p. 75, note 3.
8. ↑ Stein, Genossenschaft, p. 75 with note 4.
9. ↑ Entry 1520 in the Rostock matriculation portal