Heinrich Balemann

Heinrich Balemann (around 1730)

Entry by Mayor Balemann (1739) in the Johann Friedrich Behrendt register

Rococo epitaph for Mayor Balemann in St. Marien (1751)

Balemann family tree. Genealogical Register 1200–1910 (Manuscript 817-2, Volumes A – E)

Balemann family tree. Lübeck Genealogical Register 1200–1910 (Manuscript 1029 a, Volume A – J) Fig. 38 to 42

Heinrich Balemann (born November 15, 1677 in Lübeck , † May 28, 1750 ibid) was a lawyer and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Balemann was the son of Lübeck councilor Heinrich Balemann (councilor, 1643) , who also represented the city at the Peace of Nijmegen and in 1692 acquired the Brandenbaum family estate. Grandfather Hinrich Balemann had been a protonotary in Lübeck , i.e. first council secretary of the city, and great-grandfather Heinrich Balemann (councilor, 1580) had also been a member of the Lübeck council since 1628.

Balemann studied law from 1696 to 1699, first at the University of Altdorf and then in Halle (Saale) and then went on the usual Grand Tour that took him via Vienna to Italy and France. He earned a double law then required professional practice at the Imperial Court in Wetzlar and was 1701 by the University of Groningen Dr. iur. PhD. After returning to his hometown, he was first elected council secretary in 1702 and a member of the council in 1717. He represented the city in several foreign embassies, so in 1717 together with the councilor Heinrich von Brömbsen in Gottorf Castle with King Friedrich IV of Denmark, in 1719 and 1720 in Herrenhausen Castle with King George I of England because of the Möllner pertinence . In 1724 Balemann was elected one of the four mayors of the city. During his term of office the self-completion of the Lübeck Council, forced by the citizens, fell in 1739 .

His garden house with two towers and a large ornamental garden in front of the Holsten Gate in today's Lübeck-St. Lorenz is in Jacob von Melle's Thorough Message from the Kayserlichen, Freyen and the H. Römis. Imperial City of Lübeck illustrated in the 2nd edition from 1742.

In 1745 he, together with the other mayor Heinrich Rust and councilors Hermann Woldt and Mattheus Rodde, had the large bell of the Holy Spirit Hospital cast over by council founder Lorenz Strahlborn and his son Dietrich.

Since 1702 he was married to Catharina Elisabeth Wolfrath, with whom he had at least two children. The son Heinrich Dietrich (1703–1768) studied law in Gießen and Altdorf and from 1761 was also mayor of Lübeck.

epitaph

His marble epitaph with his bust and other allegorical figures in Lübeck's Marienkirche survived the air raid on Palm Sunday 1942 and has been preserved.

literature

Gustav Schaumann , Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906, p. 379 ( digitized version ).
Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Verlag Max Schmidt-Römhild , 2nd edition Lübeck 1925, No. 846. Unchanged reprint Lübeck 1978. ISBN 3-7950-0500-0
Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries up to the constitutional amendment of 1851. In: Journal of the association for Lübeck history and antiquity . Vol. 29, 1938, pp. 91-168.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Balemann - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Inscription with translation by Adolf Clasen : Misunderstood treasures: Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German , Lübeck 2003, p. 42 ff. ISBN 3-7950-0475-6

personal data
SURNAME	Balemann, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH	November 15, 1677
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH	May 28, 1750
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] Inscription with translation by Adolf Clasen : Misunderstood treasures: Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German , Lübeck 2003, p. 42 ff. ISBN 3-7950-0475-6