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Gottschalck Lunte (* before 1500 probably in Lübeck ; † October 16, 1532 there ) was mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck during the Wullenweber period .

Life

Lunte was the son of the Lübeck citizen Erich Lunte. Gottschalck Lunte was Lübeck city ​​governor in the city of Mölln, which was held as pledge by Lübeck and, as the son-in-law of Lübeck's mayor Hermann von Wickede, who died in 1501, had access to the circles of the Lübeck patriciate. As a member of the citizens' committee called 64 , he was elected to the Lübeck council in August 1531 at the instigation of Wullenwebers. In the council, Lunte was immediately chosen as one of the four mayors . In 1532 he belonged to the Lübeck embassies under the leadership of Mayor Joachim Gercken , who negotiated with King Frederick I of Denmark in January in Neumünster and in July in Copenhagen to exclude the Dutch from trade in the Baltic Sea . His wife Elisabeth caused a scandal after the death of Luntes in 1533 with her marriage to the military leader Marx Meyer . His daughter Dorothea married the councilor Franz von Stiten . Lunte lived in the house at Schildstrasse 10 in Lübeck .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Herr Gottschalk Lunte (Sage)  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. According to Georg Waitz ( Lübeck under Jürgen Wullenwever and the European politics , Volume 3. Berlin 1856; p. 224) his wife was the sister of Johann von Elpen and widow of the councilor Johann von Kempen.