Gerhard Grentzin

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Gerhard Grentzin , also Gerd Grensin (* in Lübeck ; † October 1, 1610 ibid) was a councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Pulpit with Grentzins sound cover in Bergedorf

Gerhard Grentzin was the son of from Parchim originating Lübeck citizen Johann Grentzin (also Gransin ), the 1580 George Church in Parchim donated the pulpit. He was a merchant in Lübeck and was elected to the city council in 1580. From 1596 to 1602 he was Lübeck bailiff in the two-city Bergedorf office . At the end of his tenure at Bergedorf Castle , he gave the church of St. Petri and Pauli in Bergedorf the sound cover for the pulpit. In 1609 he helped his son, the lawyer Johann Grensin , to be appointed as Lübeck council secretary. He lived in the house at Große Petersgrube 21.

His sister Maria was married to the Lübeck councilor Johann Kruse († 1598) from Boizenburg , who lived in the neighboring house at 23 Große Petersgrube.

literature

  • Friedrich Schlie : Art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . Vol. IV, Schwerin 1901, p. 435
  • Rudolf Struck : On the knowledge of families in Lübeck and their relationships to local and foreign art monuments in: Museum for Art and Cultural History in Lübeck. Yearbook 1914 • 1915 (Volume II. – III.), HG Rahtgens, Lübeck 1915, p. 41–73 (p. 44 ff.)
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 702

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Petri and Pauli on www.bergedorf-info.de
  2. ↑ Fehling, Council Line, No. 704
personal data
SURNAME Grentzin, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grensin, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1610
Place of death Lübeck