Bertram Morneweg
Bertram Morneweg (also Bartram Morgenweg ; * in Lübeck ; † 1286 ibid) was a Lübeck merchant and councilor .
Life
Little is known about his résumé. Unproven traditions say that he was adopted as an orphan by the Lübeck citizen and merchant Marquard von Bardewik and thus achieved a career in long-distance trading.
A document issued in the autumn of 1271 in Lynn , England , names his name; there is no evidence of his alleged long-term stay in the Peterhof in Novgorod . Regardless of the details of his career, it is clear that Morneweg was a successful businessman and had acquired an unusual fortune for his time when he settled back in Lübeck and married Gertrud Morneweg († 1301). At the time of his death, his capital was around 13,500 Lübsche Marks, which was the equivalent of over a million gold marks before the First World War . His widow continued the business and increased the fortune.
Morneweg participated in various trading companies and became a member of the Lübeck council. In 1286 he was sent to England by the council. Furthermore, as a founder, he was one of the founders of the Heiligen-Geist-Hospital , where a wall painting in the donor gallery shows his presumably individual portrait to this day. The Stiftergalerie of the Heiligen-Geist-Hospital is the oldest picture cycle with portraits of Lübeck councilors and merchants.
His son Hermann Morneweg became mayor of Lübeck .
literature
- Conrad von Höveln : The happy and adorned city of Lübeck: Di Kurtze Description of the city of Lübeck ... , Verlag Johann Gerhard Krüger, 1697, p. 201 ff. ( Appendix to Bertram Morgenweg with ten legends )
- Ernst Deecke : Contributions to Lübeckische Geschichtskunde , Volume 1, Von Rohden, Lübeck 1835, S. 8/9 ( digitized version with a classification of the work published by Johann Gerhard Krüger as an improved edition of the work by Conrad von Höveln from 1666)
- Ahasver von Brandt : The oldest portraits of Lübeck citizens. In: Der Wagen 1955, pp. 38–44
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, No. 225.
- Antjekathrin Graßmann (ed.): Lübeckische Geschichte . Schmidt-Römhild, 1989
- Norman Scott Brien Gras: An Introduction to Economic History. Harper & Brothers, 1922
- Klaus Friedland / Rolf Sprandel: Lübeck, Hanseatic League, Northern Europe . Böhlau-Verlag, 1979
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morneweg, Bertram |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Morgenweg, Bartram |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Councilor of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 13th Century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1286 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |