Gotthard V. von Hoeveln

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Gotthardt of Hoeveln in the Mayor Gallery in Luebeck city hall
Epitaph in St. Marien
Brass inlay of the grave slab in St. Marien

Gotthard V. von Hoeveln (* 1544 in Lübeck ; † March 16, 1609 ibid) was mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. He was the grandson of the mayor Gotthard III. von Hoeveln and stood for the middle-class, progressive tradition of the family and thus for openness to new developments.

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Gotthard von Hoeveln was the son of councilor Gotthard IV von Höveln . On May 7, 1578, he moved into the Senate as councilor and on February 15, 1589 he was elected mayor. It was a restless term of office, marked by many disputes and conditions by the royal houses. As councilor he was already a delegate to the Reichstag in Augsburg in 1582 and as mayor to the Reichstag in Copenhagen in 1589 . In 1595 there were customs disputes with Duke Franz II of Sachsen-Lauenburg and von Hoeveln intervened in the negotiations in the capacity of an imperial commissioner, but unsuccessfully and the mutual attacks and harassment lasted for almost ten years. The rift between the Hanseatic League and England, which sought to dissolve the Hanseatic League, also weighed on his term of office, as it was also about international customs regulations and the privileges of the Hanseatic cities.

The so-called “ Reiser unrest ”, which dragged on for almost two years, also fell during his term of office . In order not to upgrade the troublemaker Heinrich Reiser too much, von Hoeveln left it to his second mayor, Alexander Lüneburg , to conduct the negotiations and to bring them to an acceptable conclusion on November 28, 1600. In addition, on July 14, 1605, after long and tough negotiations, he reached a compromise with the citizens on the citizen recession. The mayor of Hoeveln and some other important personalities from his environment were not invited to a subsequent banquet of the citizens' committee and were thus snubbed again. Heinrich Reiser himself also tried to intrigue against von Hoeveln by defamation.

Gotthard von Hoeveln survived this constant hostility for another four years and finally died on March 16, 1609. He was married to Anna Schillings († 1612) and had only one daughter named Margret (* 1574), who owned Lübeck councilor Heinrich Brömbse (1569–1569–). 1632) married. He was buried with his wife in the choir of the Marienkirche ; the grave was covered with an engraved brass plate. While the grave is no longer visible after the Second World War because the choir was raised, the corresponding brass plate was hung in a wooden frame in the southern ambulatory. Hoeveln and his wife are shown in contemporary costume together with their coats of arms and the coats of arms of their eight ancestors on an epitaph next to the crypt, which depicts the awakening of the daughter of Jairus . The monument on the third northern choir pillar of the chancel, designed by the Dutch sculptor Robert Coppens , contains two Latin inscriptions. There was also an oil painting in the choir of St. Catherine's Church in Lübeck .

The city ​​library (Lübeck) keeps three copies of the chronicle of Reimar Kock made for him in 1592/1593 .

The Lübeck councilor Gotthard VI. von Höveln was his nephew.

Literature and Sources

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Text with explanation and translation by: Adolf Clasen : Unknown treasures - Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck 2002, p. 26 ff. ISBN 3795004756
  2. ^ Chronica TI, copy from 1593 ( Lübeck City Library , signature Ms. Lub 2 ° 26 ); Chronica T. II, copy from 1592 ( Lübeck City Library , signature Ms. Lub 2 ° 27 ); Chronica T. III, copy from 1593 ( Lübeck City Library , signature Ms. Lub 2 ° 28 )
personal data
SURNAME Hoeveln, Gotthard V. von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 1544
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1609
Place of death Lübeck