Anton Koehler
Anton Köhler (* 1585 ; † September 12, 1657 in Lübeck ) was a mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.
Life
Köhler came from a Lübeck council family. His grandfather was the Lübeck councilor Heinrich Köhler . The mayor Heinrich Köhler was his brother. Anton Köhler studied from 1605 to 1608 at the University of Helmstedt and then at the University of Jena , where he received his doctorate in law. He was friends with Count Vitzthum , worked for his family as a legal advisor and initially lived at their Kannawurf Castle , before he became a councilor at the Braunschweig court and in 1619 married the daughter of the Lübeck merchant Thomas Hebbens. In 1622 he was in Ratzeburg council of the Duke August von Sachsen-Lauenburg . In 1628 he returned to Lübeck as the syndic of the cathedral chapter there . In 1629 he again became Vice Chancellor in Sachsen-Lauenburg, as such in 1630 he was envoy to the Reichstag in Regensburg and in 1635 in Lüneburg for negotiations "on the question of the accession of North German princes to the Peace of Prague ".
After the death of his brother Heinrich in 1642, he became councilor and shortly afterwards mayor of the city of Lübeck. As such, he was mainly active in diplomatic functions, for example in 1643 as the city's envoy in Glückstadt to mediate between King Christian IV of Denmark and the sister city of Hamburg , then in Reinbek to negotiate territorial claims by Duke Friedrich III. from Holstein-Gottorf to parts of Bergedorf and in 1648 on the occasion of the coronation of King Friedrich III. of Denmark together with the Mayor Johann Marquard in Copenhagen. In 1653 he received an imperial nobility letter.
As mayor, he was interested in restoring and maintaining the Hanseatic League and wrote a chronicle of the Hanseatic League for the period from 1370 to 1630.
Anton Köhler had inherited the Bliestorf estate at the gates of the city from his father of the same name . In his second marriage he married Magdalene Brömse († 1657), a daughter of councilor Dietrich Brömse . His sister had married into the Kerkring council family. His daughter from his first marriage became the wife of Diedrich von Brömbsen . Another daughter was married to Alexander von Lüneburg , another, Agnete, married the councilor Thomas Heinrich von Wickede .
In 1635 he bought a burial chapel for the family in the Marienkirche in Lübeck . This is located on the north side of the nave and was originally donated by Johann Geismar, councilor in Stockholm. Part of the wrought-iron baroque lattice of the chapel has been preserved. His coat of arms epitaph, set in 1664, was next to that of his brother Heinrich on the west wall of the church to the left of the Bergenfahrerkapelle; it was destroyed in 1942. A plaque with his coat of arms reminds of his activity as head of the Aegidien Church and its renovation in 1645. His portrait is in the mayor's gallery in Lübeck's town hall .
Family gallery
At Anton Köhler's instigation and probably with a view to his intended ennoblement in 1653, the deceased and living members of his extensive family circle were portrayed in 20 large pictures, mainly works by Michael Conrad Hirt , but also by Zacharias Kniller . The Köhler collection was temporarily hung in the Katharinenkirche . Later some of the portraits could be seen in the longhouse of the town hall . In 2009 the entire collection was reunited, preserved and exhibited in the St. Anne's Museum .
literature
- Heinrich Bangert : De Magnifici Viri Dn. Antonii Coleri, ICti, Reipublicae Lubecensis Consulis, & Haereditarii in Bleystorff / & c. Ortu, vita & excessu. Lubecae: Volckius, Schmalhertz Erben 1662 ( VD 17 23: 238475M)
- Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from earlier times , Dittmer, 1859, p. 53 ( digitized version )
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling , Lübeck Council Line . Lübeck 1925, no.767
- Rosemarie Wesnigk: To the Köhler ancestral gallery. In: Der Wagen 1955, pp. 76–83
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Lt. Fehling printed by Willebrandt: Hansische Chronik , 1748.
- ↑ Fehling No. 755: † 1638
- ↑ Fehling No. 784: Member of the circle society from 1637, † 1671 in Burggrub / Franconia
- ↑ Fehling with reference to BuK II, 162, 266
- ↑ Description in BuK II, p. 358
- ↑ Complete text with explanation and translation by: Adolf Clasen: Verhabene Schätze - Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck 2002, p. 146. ISBN 3-7950-0475-6
- ↑ Fehling, 2nd edition 1925
- ↑ Treasures II - restored and exhibited. The Köhlersche ancestral gallery - a series of portraits from the 17th century ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Report from the museums of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, accessed on April 20, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koehler, Anton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Koeler, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1585 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 1657 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |