Conrad Garmers

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Johannes Will Inge : Portrait of Lübeck Mayor Conrad Garmers in the Mayor Gallery in Luebeck city hall

Conrad Garmers , also in Low German Kord Garmers (* in Hamburg ; † 1612 in Lübeck ) was mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Conrad Garmers became a councilor in Lübeck in 1590. As envoy of the city, he represented the city together with councilor Alexander Lüneburg in 1594 at the coronation of King Sigismund in Uppsala. In 1601 he was appointed mayor in the council. In 1603 he was Lübeck's ambassador, together with councilor Heinrich Kerkring , Lübeck council secretary Johan Brambach and the interpreter Zacharias Meier with Tsar Boris Godunow in Moscow.

The Hamburg Syndicus Johann Garmers (1586–1638) was his son; the Hanseatic statesman and Hamburg Syndicus Vincent Garmers his grandson.

literature

  • Stephan Macropus: Stephani Macropi [i] Andreaemontani Panegyricus In Reditum Magnificorum ... Virorum, Dn. Conradi Germeri, Coss. Dn. Henrici Kerckringi Senatoris Et Patricii. Dn. M. Joannis Brambachi [i] Secretarii Lubecensis: Nomine Totius Famosissimae Et celeberrimae Societatis Hanseaticae, una cum Stralesundis, ad magnum Muscoviae Ducem, Legatorum. Lubecae: Albrecht 1603
Digitized , Hamburg University Library
  • Otto Blümcke: Reports and files of the Hanseatic legation to Moscow 1603 , in: Hansische Geschistorquellen , Volume 7, Verlag des Waisenhauses, Halle a. S. 1894 digitized version (PDF; 30.0 MB)
  • EF Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie from the beginnings of the city to the present day (= publications on the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Bd. 7, H. 1, ZDB -ID 520795-2 ). Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1925, no.710
  • Iwan A. Iwanov: A forgotten source on the history of the Hanseatic embassy to Moscow from 1603. The travel description of Zacharias Meyer in the Lübeck Rehbein Chronicle. In: Zeitschrift für Lübeckische Geschichte , Volume 93 (2013), pp. 67–120

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Heinrich Reincke:  Garmers, Vincent. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 72 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Garmers, Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Germer, Conrad; Garmers, cord
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 1612
Place of death Lübeck