Christoph Tode

Christoph Tode in the mayor's gallery in Lübeck's town hall

Seal of Christoph death around 1574

Christoph (Christoffer) Tode (born February 24, 1515 in Lübeck ; † May 24, 1579 in Rondeshagen ) was a mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

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He came from an old councilor family who previously lived in Hamburg , but originally in Bornum am Elm . His mother was a daughter of the mayor Hermann von Wickede . His father Marcus death († 1551) was one like his brother Gottschalck fuse in the Reformation to the citizens' committee of the 64-ies .

After completing his law degree in Wittenberg , Christoph Tode first became a councilor in Lübeck in 1552. In 1560 he was elected one of Lübeck's mayors. From 1560 to 1566 he was also bailiff of the two cities Bergedorf . After that, in 1568, he still occupied the position of chief of finance. In 1578 he resigned from his council seat at his own request because of his increasing blindness.

During the three-crown war (1563-1570) in 1568, Christoph Tode was together with the Syndicus of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck Calixtus Schein diplomatic representative of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck in the initially unsuccessful peace negotiations with the Swedes in Roskilde and in 1570 in the final peace agreement in Stettin with the mediation of Emperor Maximilian II.

Christoph Tode was married twice and lived in a house at Königstrasse 18, which he had received from his great-grandfather Bernhard Darsow through the maternal line . He owned several estates in Bliestorf and Rondeshagen . His picture hangs in the town hall entrance of Lübeck.

He had been head of the Katharinenkirche (Lübeck) since 1552 and was buried in a grave chapel on the south aisle.

literature

Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925, No. 663
Documents from Hans-Thorald Michaelis

Individual evidence

^ Friedrich Bruns †: The Lübeck Council. Composition, addition and management, from the beginning to the 19th century. In: ZVLGA , Volume 32 (1951), pp. 1–69, p. 60 (Chapter 9: Conclusion of Council Membership )
↑ Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns , Hugo Rahtgens : The architectural and art monuments of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Volume IV: The Monasteries. The town's smaller churches. The churches and chapels in the outskirts. Thought and way crosses and the Passion of Christ. Nöhring, Lübeck 1928. (Facsimile reprint 2001, ISBN 3-89557-168-7 ), p. 70. The chapel received its present form in the 18th century. The last one buried there was the councilor Gotthard Heinrich Green (* 1741; † 1797)

personal data
SURNAME	Death, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Death, Christoffer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician, Mayor of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH	February 24, 1515
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH	May 24, 1579
Place of death	Rondeshagen

[1] Friedrich Bruns †: The Lübeck Council. Composition, addition and management, from the beginning to the 19th century. In: ZVLGA , Volume 32 (1951), pp. 1–69, p. 60 (Chapter 9: Conclusion of Council Membership )

[2] Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns , Hugo Rahtgens : The architectural and art monuments of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Volume IV: The Monasteries. The town's smaller churches. The churches and chapels in the outskirts. Thought and way crosses and the Passion of Christ. Nöhring, Lübeck 1928. (Facsimile reprint 2001, ISBN 3-89557-168-7 ), p. 70. The chapel received its present form in the 18th century. The last one buried there was the councilor Gotthard Heinrich Green (* 1741; † 1797)