Heinrich Balemann (councilor, 1643)

Heinrich Balemann, copper engraving by Hermann Hendrik de Quiter (1679)

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 February 8, 1643 in Lübeck , † July 20, 1693 ibid) was a German lawyer and Lübeck councilor.

Life

Heinrich Balemann was the son of the Lübeck protonotary of the same name Hinrich Balemann and grandson of the Lübeck councilor Heinrich Balemann (councilor, 1580) . He studied law at the Universities of Halle and Wittenberg. At the University of Kiel , he was in 1673 for Dr. PhD in both rights. Balemann then went on trips to the Netherlands, England, France and Scandinavia. In 1675 he became Syndicus of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and in 1680 its councilor.

Balemann represented the city in several foreign embassies, including the 1678 peace treaty of Nijmegen . A copperplate portrait has survived from the time in Nijmegen. In 1692 he acquired the Brandenbaum family estate.

His son Heinrich Balemann became mayor of Lübeck . His brother Friedrich Balemann became a minister and district judge in East Frisia.

In the Marienkirche in Lübeck was to fire 1942 by Franz Austria painted large panel painting of the preaching of repentance of the prophet Nathan before David , that was the emblem Heinrich Balemanns, who is also head of the Church of St. Mary's Church, wore.

literature

• Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lückeckische families from older times. Dittmer, 1859, p. 5 ( digitized version ).
• 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. 330 ( digitized version ).
• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, No. 807.
• Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries until the constitutional amendment of 1851. In; ZVLGA , Volume 29 (1938), p. 111 ff.
• Heinrich Balemann (1643-1693). In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck , Volume 5, p. 29 ff.