Georg von Lengerke

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Georg von Lengerke (epitaph portrait in Lübeck's Marienkirche , destroyed in 1942)

Georg von Lengerke (* 1569 in Kiel , † August 18, 1645 in Lübeck ) was councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .

Life

Coat of arms of the von Lengerke family in Lübeck's Füchtingshof (built 1639)

Georg von Lengerke was the son of the mayor of Kiel, Ameling von Lengerke († 1618), who came from Osnabrück . His younger sister Margareta (1582–1636) married the successful Lübeck merchant and councilor Johann Füchting . In this respect, the Lengerke family's coat of arms can be found several times in Lübeck's Füchtingshof on Glockengießerstraße .

Lengerke was elected to the Lübeck council in 1619 . From 1642 to 1645 he was the town’s treasurer.

After his death, his son, the Lübeck councilor Hermann von Lengerke, set an epitaph in Lübeck's Marienkirche in 1660 .

Georg von Lengerke was married to Dorothea, née von Elsewich ( von Elswig ). Another son, Johannes von Lengerke, became a businessman in Hamburg; he was the father of the legal scholar and Hamburg mayor Peter von Lengerke (1651–1709).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Ameling the Elder from Lengerke
  2. Hans Schröder : Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present: Volume: Klincker-Lyser. Continued by FA Cropp and CRW Klose. [1858–1866], Perthes-Besser et al. Mauke, Hamburg 1866, No. 2229 ( digitized version )