Alexander Lüneburg (politician, 1240)

Seal of Mayor Alexander Lüneburg around 1302

Alexander Lüneburg (* 1240 ; † July 13, 1302 in Lübeck ) was councilor and mayor of Lübeck.

Life

Alexander Lüneburg came to Lübeck from Livonia . He became the first councilor and mayor of the Lüneburg patrician family in the city. He was probably elected to the council in 1293 and was treasurer in 1297 and 1298. Also in 1297 he was a signatory to a loan that the Archbishop of Bremen Giselbert von Brunkhorst took out in Lübeck. In 1302 he was appointed mayor in the council. He was buried in the Katharinenkirche , where his coat of arms grave plate with an inscription is located. His house was at Johannisstraße 11. He was married to Elisabeth von Morneweg, who after his death married the future mayor Albert von Bardewik .

literature

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. 281.

Individual evidence

^ Günter Kruse: The family of the Lübeck Chancellor and Mayor Albert von Bardewik: with a descent to Vladimir I. Uljanow (Lenin), in: Archive for Family History Research Volume 8 (2004), p. 253.
^ Klaus Krüger: Corpus of the medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100–1600. Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999 ISBN 3-7995-5940-X , p. 38/39 (LÜKA38): "The tomb for AL was made over a century after the death of the person concerned."
^ Günter Kruse: The family of the Lübeck Chancellor and Mayor Albert von Bardewik: with a descent to Vladimir I. Uljanow (Lenin), in: Archive for Family History Research Volume 8 (2004), p. 252 ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Lueneburg, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Councilor and Mayor of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH	1240
DATE OF DEATH	July 13, 1302
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] Günter Kruse: The family of the Lübeck Chancellor and Mayor Albert von Bardewik: with a descent to Vladimir I. Uljanow (Lenin), in: Archive for Family History Research Volume 8 (2004), p. 253.

[2] Klaus Krüger: Corpus of the medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100–1600. Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999 ISBN 3-7995-5940-X , p. 38/39 (LÜKA38): "The tomb for AL was made over a century after the death of the person concerned."

[3] Günter Kruse: The family of the Lübeck Chancellor and Mayor Albert von Bardewik: with a descent to Vladimir I. Uljanow (Lenin), in: Archive for Family History Research Volume 8 (2004), p. 252 ff.