Diedrich horn
Diedrich Hupe († March 24, 1498 in Lübeck ) was a German merchant and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.
Life
As a long-distance merchant, Diedrich Hupe belonged to the merchant company in Lübeck and, as a young merchant sent to Kraków , traveled to Armenia and the Tatar region from there . He was elected to the city council in 1477 and served as its envoy in Hamburg in 1480 and in Lüneburg in 1484. In 1480 he was handed down as a betting ruler together with councilor Dietrich Basedow . As councilor he also took care of the affairs of the Hanseatic League in London, which had been back in the Stalhof since 1475 after the end of the Hanseatic -English War in 1474 , where his brother-in-law Tideman Berck from Lübeck was an elder in 1486 . In 1487 he was a member of the commission for examining the accounts of the merchant in London, was involved in drafting a letter to the English King Henry VII , in which the goods confiscated by the English were specified, and heard witnesses in matters of the merchant in London. In 1491 he was a member of the embassy that negotiated with the envoys of King Henry VII of England in Antwerp . In 1493 he agreed in Mölln with representatives of the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg and Lüneburg on how to proceed against the siege of the Hanseatic city of Braunschweig and in the same year negotiated with King John I of Denmark in Segeberg and Reinfeld (Holstein) . In 1494 he was appointed mayor of Lübeck in the council . In 1495 he became a member of the patrician circle society . Together with the Lübeck councilor Hartwig von Stiten , he mediated in Parkentin in 1495 in a dispute between the city of Rostock and the dukes of Mecklenburg.
Hupe had been married to Taleke, a daughter of the Lübeck citizen Heinrich Berck, since around 1460 and lived in the property at Breite Straße 13 in Lübeck. He was head of the St. Jürgen-Stift in Lübeck.
literature
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925, No. 564
Individual evidence
- ^ Fritz Rörig : The Medieval Town , University of California Press, 1967, p. 137
- ^ Carl Friedrich Wehrmann : The older Lübeck guild roles , Friedrich Asschenfeldt, Lübeck 1864, p. 428
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Horn, Diedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German merchant and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 14th century or 15th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 24, 1498 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |