Franz Prünsterer

Franz Prünsterer (born March 12, 1570 in Nuremberg , † January 7, 1637 in Lübeck ) was a merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Coat of arms of the Prünsterer in Nuremberg

The merchant Franz Prünsterer, who possibly came from a family of the Nuremberg patriciate and immigrated to Lübeck, is documented in Lübeck in 1603 as a business representative of the Saiger trading company of the Welser , so he was active in the copper trade between Sweden and Upper Germany. In 1611 he became a member of the Lübeck Stockholm Driver Corporation . In 1619 he was elected to the Lübeck council . His daughter Anna married the mayor of Lübeck, Matthäus Rodde .

After his death in 1641, Prünsterer received a wooden epitaph set in Lübeck's Marienkirche . The epitaph burned in 1942 during the air raid on Lübeck , the portrait it contains is in the St. Anne's Museum .

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. 353.
Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925 No. 746
Ekkehard Westermann : The Nuremberg Welser and the Central German Saiger trade of the 16th century in its European interrelations. In: Mark Häberlein, Johannes Burkhardt : The Welser: New research on the history and culture of the Upper German trading house. Walter de Gruyter, 2002, p. 255 .

Web links

Photo of the epitaph (before 1942) in the picture index of art and architecture

Individual evidence

↑ According to Nicolaus Hieronymus Gundling : Historical news of the origin and growth of the Holy Roman Empire Frayer Stadt Nürnberg (etc.) , Bachmeyer, 1707, p. 258, the Prünsterer with the two sons of Stephan Prünsterer had died out. All other Prünsterer held coats-of-arms presumptuous. Does that mean Franz Prünsterer as well?

personal data
SURNAME	Prünsterer, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH	March 12, 1570
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH	January 7, 1637
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] According to Nicolaus Hieronymus Gundling : Historical news of the origin and growth of the Holy Roman Empire Frayer Stadt Nürnberg (etc.) , Bachmeyer, 1707, p. 258, the Prünsterer with the two sons of Stephan Prünsterer had died out. All other Prünsterer held coats-of-arms presumptuous. Does that mean Franz Prünsterer as well?