Ditmar von Thünen

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Seal of Ditmar von Thünen
Thuen's house at Alfstrasse 11, destroyed in 1942

Ditmar von Thünen († 1432 in Lübeck ) was a merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

The merchant Ditmar von Thünen came in the course of the unrest in Lübeck in 1408 from the group of mountain drivers as a member of the finance commission and the council election commission in the new city council, which ousted the deposed old council of the city from active Lübeck politics until 1416. He was one of the few members of the New Council who were taken over when the Old Council returned in 1416 and remained Lübeck councilor until his death. In 1416, together with the councilor and later mayor Konrad Breckewoldt , he had to estimate the value of the confiscated property of the 1408 expropriated members of the old council. He negotiated as the city's envoy in Copenhagen in 1416, in Hamburg and Stade in 1418, and with Count Christian VI in the autumn of that year . from Oldenburg because of the outsiders . In 1422 von Thünen was the commander of the Lübeck fleet in the Öresund . In 1428 he was negotiating with King Eric of Denmark . On several Hanseatic days between 1417 and 1430 he represented the interests of Lübeck. In Lübeck citizens' wills he is listed several times as a documentary witness and guardian .

Ditmar von Thünen was a member of the patrician circle society . He lived in Alfstrasse 11 until 1411 and then in Mengstrasse 40 until his death . His son Ludeke von Thünen later also became councilor and mayor of Lübeck, while his daughter Soffeke married the mayor of Lübeck, Gerhard von Minden .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gunnar Meyer: “possessing citizens” and “miserable sicknesses”: Lübeck's society in the mirror of their wills 1400–1449 (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, published by the archive of the Hanseatic city, series B, volume 48) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2010 ISBN 978-3-7950-0490-3
personal data
SURNAME Thünen, Ditmar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thunen, Detmar von; Tuning van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1432
Place of death Lübeck