Heinrich Castorp
Heinrich Castorp († September 10, 1512 in Lübeck ) was a merchant, councilor and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.
Heinrich Castorp was the son of the important Lübeck mayor Hinrich Castorp . He was elected to the city council in 1500, where he was appointed mayor in 1512, the year he died. As councilor in 1503 he was a member of a Lübeck embassy that negotiated with Denmark. In 1511 he represented the city at the Hanseatic Congress in Lübeck.
He lived in his father's house at Königstraße 42 and had been a member of the influential circle society since 1501 . He wrote a lost chronicle, which the chronicler Reimar Kock named as one of his sources.
His son Hinrich Castorp also became a councilor in Lübeck.
literature
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, No. 582
- Wilhelm Mantels : Castorp . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 69 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Castorp in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Castorp, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman, councilor and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 10, 1512 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |