Bernhard Elfers

Bernhard Elfers († 1706 in Rostock ) was a German lawyer, secretary of the Hanseatic Office in Bergen and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Rostock.

Life

Bernhard Elfers studied law at the University of Frankfurt / Oder ; as a respondent he is proven in 1671 at the University of Jena . From 1672 to 1693 he was secretary of the Hansekontor in Bergen on Bryggen . After 1693 he settled in the Hanseatic city of Rostock, where he became councilor of the city.

Elfers married Margarethe Kerkring in Bergen in 1676, the sister of the later Lübeck councilor and mayor Gotthard Kerkring , widow of the pastor Heinrich Lemcke at the Marienkirche in Bergen. The exemption required for this was granted to him with regard to the associated provision for a pastor's widow; At the same time it was made clear that this exemption would not have been granted to a previously unmarried woman. Otherwise, all members of the Hansekontor in Bergen had to be unmarried (principle of commercial celibacy ) and Elfers was the only married secretary in the history of the Kontor.

The Rostock theologian and university professor Zacharias Grape (the younger) wrote Elfers the funeral script.

literature

• Zacharias Grape : Programma, Quo Rector Academiae Rostochiensis Zachar. Grapius ... Quas Viro Nobilissimo ... Bernhardo Elfers, Senatori Reip. Rostochiensis ... , Rostock 1706
• Digitized , Göttingen University Library
• Friedrich Bruns : The Secretaries of the German Office in Bergen , in: Det Hanseatiske Museums Skriften , Volume 13, Bergen 1939, pp. 88–92