Borchard Wrede

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Borchard Wrede ( bl. 1522–1536) was a member of the Lübeck Citizens' Committee of 64 .

Borchard Wrede was older man of the Office of the blacksmiths . At the beginning of the 1520s he turned to the Reformation . Together with Harmen Israhel he was since 1525 one of the spokesmen for the citizens in the disputes with the council. In 1528 and 1529 he was elected to a citizens' committee to negotiate with the council about consideration for new taxes. Since April 7, 1530, he was one of the 64 “ordained citizens” who were initially only supposed to officiate as “box-seaters”, that is, overseers of tax payments. On June 10th, however, their names were recorded as legal co-regents in the city register.

After the introduction of the Reformation was decided on June 30, 1530, Wrede belonged to the commission that worked out Christlike Ordenings together with Johannes Bugenhagen of the Keyserliken city of Lübeck . Together with Jürgen Wullenwever and two other committee citizens, on February 18, 1531, together with the council, he confirmed the amicable introduction of the Reformation and vowed obedience for the citizens with a handshake.

Since Wrede was not able to advise as a craftsman in Lübeck, he did not get into the council when the council was reshuffled in 1531 . When the committee subsequently lost its importance, Wrede no longer appeared politically. In 1535, under torture, Jürgen Wullenwever named his name as one of those who knew about his alleged plans to establish an Anabaptist empire in Lübeck. Wrede was imprisoned in the royal stables , but like the others soon released into house arrest.

Wrede owned the house at Kupferschmiedestrasse 15.

literature

  • Wilhelm Jannasch : Reformation history of Lübeck from St. Peter's indulgence to the Augsburg Reichstag 1515-1530. Publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Vol. 16. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1958

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Rudolph Becker: Complicated history of the Kaiserl. and salvation: Roman Empire freyen city of Lübeck. Volume 2, Lübeck 1784, p. 28
  2. ^ Johann Rudolph Becker: Complicated history of the Kaiserl. and salvation: Roman Empire freyen city of Lübeck. Volume 2, Lübeck 1784, p. 97
  3. ^ Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Architecture and building history AK.13 Kontor to Kütertor
personal data
SURNAME Wrede, Borchard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lübeck craftsman, member of the Lübeck Citizens Committee 1530
DATE OF BIRTH before 1522
DATE OF DEATH after 1536