Cordt Wolters

Cordt Wolters , also Konrad Wolters (* in Peine ; † March 17, 1591 in Lübeck ) was councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck and sub-admiral of the Lübeck fleet.

Wolters was a member of the Lübeck mountain drivers and was elected to the city council of Lübeck in 1564. In 1566 he was sub-admiral of the Lübeck fleet under its commander, the Lübeck Mayor and Admiral Bartholomeus Tinnappel off Gotland on the Lübeck admiral ship and took part in the sea battle of the Three Crowns with the Swedish fleet between Öland and Gotland in July 1566. On July 19, 1566, his ship sank with a large number of other warships of the Lübeck fleet because the anchorage was chosen unfavorable for the weather. In contrast to Tinnappel, Wolters was just able to be rescued after its shipwreck. From 1589 to 1590 Wolters was the town’s treasurer.

He was head of the Aegidienkirche , whose Woltersen chapel goes back to him and the local hereditary burial of the Wolters family. Wolters was married twice and lived in Lübeck from 1583–1591 in Mengstrasse 42 . At least the side wing of his house with later ceiling paintings from the 17th century is still preserved; on the street side, the house was redesigned in a classical style in the 19th century.

literature

• Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns : The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Published by Bernhard Nöhring: Lübeck 1920, p. 464 f. Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9
• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925, No. 681
• Klaus J. Groth : World Heritage Lübeck - Listed Houses , Lübeck 1999, p. 339

Individual evidence

1. ^ Antjekathrin Graßmann : Lübeckische Geschichte , p. 422