Heinrich Brockes I.

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Heinrich Brockes in the mayor's gallery in Lübeck's town hall
Heraldic epitaph in St. Marien

Heinrich Brockes , also: Brokes , (born October 3, 1567 in Lübeck ; † December 19, 1623 ibid) was a mayor of Lübeck .

Life

Brockes was born the son of Lübeck's admiral and mayor Johann Brokes .

He studied law in 1586–90 at the universities of Tübingen and Marburg and in 1591 in Padua . He then went on an educational trip through Europe that took him to the capitals of France, Portugal, Spain and England. This was followed by a period of several months at the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer .

In 1597 he returned to Lübeck and was elected to the city council in 1601 as a member of the merchant company. One of his first tasks there was the upcoming new fortification of the city by building the Lübeck ramparts . In 1604 he was the city's ambassador to King James I of England on the occasion of his accession to government; with Archduke Albrecht VII in Brussels and King Henry IV of France in Paris , he perceived the trade interests of the Hanseatic League in this context . In 1606 he traveled with two colleagues from Danzig and Hamburg accompanied by the secretary Johannes Conradus on the same mission to Madrid to the court of King Philip the Elder. III. of Spain and there concluded a trade agreement between the Hanseatic cities and Spain. In 1608 he traveled to Prague because of the Braunschweig feud with Emperor Rudolf II .

Heinrich Brockes was elected mayor of the city in 1609 . Accompanied by the Syndic Johann Domann , he traveled to The Hague in 1612 , where he concluded the trade agreement between the Hanseatic cities and the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands in the following year . The result of this contract was, among other things, the establishment of a Reformed parish in the strictly Lutheran Lübeck.

In December 1615, after the siege of Braunschweig, the conflict between the Hanseatic city of Braunschweig and Duke Ulrich von Braunschweig-Lüneburg was ended. This led to a strengthening of the Hanseatic city alliance. Brockes also made an advantageous settlement with Duke Christian von Braunschweig-Lüneburg in 1620, after he had previously entered the Vierlande by force.

In 1619 Brockes was one of the founding curators of the Lübeck city ​​library ; together with Alexander Lüneburg he issued their first usage regulations in 1620. His brother Otto Brokes also became mayor of Lübeck.

His coat of arms epitaph with Latin inscription is located on the fourth pillar of the southern ambulatory of Lübeck's Marienkirche .

Fonts

ZVLGA 1 (1860), pp. 79–92, 173–183, 281–347 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library )
ZVLGA 2 (1867), pp. 1–37 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library )

literature

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Keyword "Brokes, Heinrich". In: Antjekathrin Graßmann (ed.): Lübeck-Lexikon. The Hanse City A to Z . Lübeck 2006, p. 57.
  2. ^ Library of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck: Library guide for the 375th anniversary. Lübeck 1997, p. 12
  3. ↑ Text with explanation and translation by: Adolf Clasen : Unknown treasures - Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck 2002, ISBN 3-7950-0475-6 , p. 44.
personal data
SURNAME Brockes, Heinrich I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brokes, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1567
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1623
Place of death Lübeck