Hans Regkmann

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Hans Regkmann , also Hans Reckemann , Regkman (* 1494 in Recklinghausen ; † late January 1561 in Lübeck ) was a German merchant and chronicler.

Life

Hans Regkmann grew up in Recklinghausen and probably learned the trade in Bergen (Norway) . In Lübeck and Bergen he can be proven as a Lübeck mountain driver from 1521. Around 1529 he was a citizen of Lübeck and settled down at Alfstrasse 15 in the commercial district of Lübeck's old town . He married the year after buying the house. The marriage produced three sons. In 1550 he was appointed by the Lübeck Council to be the scale master at the Niederwaage . This was rebuilt in 1548 up de welsche manner as a six-gabled Renaissance building and contained an apartment for him on the upper floor, so that he sold his house in Alfstrasse in 1550.

He did not write his Low German chronicle on business, but privately from 1537 to 1549 to inform his sons. Regkmann relied on the Lübeck Chronik by Hermann Bonnus , which appeared in print in 1539 , the Low German version of the Chronica Slavorum and the Wandalia by Albert Krantz . He added a Lübeck council line to it, which he wrote down in one go until 1539 based on an unknown model and then added to it from his own experience until 1560. Regkmann's original manuscript came into the possession of the Hamburg State and University Library in 1767 and has not survived. Regkmann added notes of the businessman and neighbor Gerd Korffmaker, who died of the plague in 1548, and of other unidentified third parties, including an anonymous report about the last days of Marx Meyer's life , from Korffmacher an eyewitness report on Marten Pechlin and another report on Lübeck's naval warfare in 1535 in the count feud .

Edited by Johann Friedrich Faust von Aschaffenburg (1569–1621), Regkmann's chronicle appeared in 1619 in a High German translation.

literature

  • Friedrich Bruns : The older Lübschen council lines. In: ZVLGA Volume 27 (1933), pp. 85 ff.
  • Alken Bruns: Reckemann, Hans in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck Volume 13, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2011, pp. 409-411
  • Sascha Möbius: The memory of the imperial city: riots and wars in the Lübeck chronicle and culture of remembrance of the late Middle Ages and early modern times , V&R unipress GmbH, 2011, p. 82 ff. ( Digitized version )
  • Werner Koppe: The great city fire on Ambrosius Day in 1500 in Recklinghausen and its chronicler Hans Reckmann. In: Vestische Zeitschrift. Journal of the associations for local and local history in Vest Recklinghausen, Volume 106 (2016/17), pp. 77–90.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Signature Hist. Ms. 361
  2. ↑ Hans Regkmann: Lubeckische Chronick: That is, Alle vorembste Geschicht vnd ​​Hendel, so it happened in the imperial imperial city of Lubeck, from the time of their first examination: Whoever was the mayor and bishop at any time [et] c. uf the abridged one, from certain authors and old chronicles, compiled in three books by Hans Regkman. Gotthard Vögelin, Strasbourg 1619. Digitized version , Lübeck City Library
personal data
SURNAME Regkmann, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reckemann, Hans; Regkman, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and chronicler
DATE OF BIRTH 1494
PLACE OF BIRTH Recklinghausen
DATE OF DEATH January 1561
Place of death Lübeck