Franz Bernhard Rodde (politician, 1644)

Franz Bernhard Rodde (born December 8, 1644 in Lübeck ; † December 26, 1700 there ) was a Lübeck merchant and councilor.

Life

Rodde was the son of the mayor of Lübeck, Matthäus Rodde . As a businessman he belonged to the merchant company in Lübeck. He was one of the heads of the Lübeck orphanage . Rodde was elected councilor in Lübeck in 1695.

He was married to Anna Magdalena Siricius, daughter of Johann Siricius , who then married the merchant Berend Schröder as a widow. In 1723 she donated the baroque altar of St. Lorenz Church in Travemünde in memory of her son Johann Rodde, who died early in 1720 .

In 1703 Franz Bernhard Rodde received a wooden epitaph in the style of Thomas Quellinus with a portrait ascribed to Godfrey Kneller in the choir of the Marienkirche in Lübeck . It was located next to his father's on the southwest side of the third northern choir pillar and was destroyed in the air raid on Lübeck in 1942.

After his death, his younger brother Adolf Mattheus Rodde was elected to the Lübeck council.

literature

• Gustav Schaumann , Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906, p. 372 ( digitized version ).
• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925, No. 822