Heinrich Köhler (politician, 1576)

Heinrich Köhler, portrayed by Michael Conrad Hirt

Heinrich Köhler (born April 6, 1576 , † March 27, 1641 in Lübeck ) was a mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Köhler came from a Lübeck council family, his grandfather was Lübeck councilor Heinrich Köhler . He studied law from 1594 to 1598 at the Universities of Rostock , Cologne and Strasbourg. After a first job at the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer, he traveled to Italy, France and England. This was followed by an activity as a councilor to Duke Heinrich Julius of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . When he returned to Lübeck, he was elected to the city council in 1617 and appointed mayor in 1624 .

Köhler was mainly active in the area of imperial and foreign policy in the city. As early as 1617 he was their envoy to Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel , 1618 in Denmark, in 1620 together with the mayor Heinrich Brokes in Boitzenburg for settlement negotiations with Duke Christian von Braunschweig-Lüneburg, who had made an incursion into the Vierlande , 1621 and 1623 at the district assembly of the Lower Saxony Reichskreis . The Hanseatic cities joined the Peace of Prague (1635) during his administration . Thereafter, Lübeck strove to resume trading activities under his leadership.

Köhler was married to a daughter of councilor Hieronymus Lüneburg . The rector of the Katharineum Heinrich Bangert gave him the funeral speech in Latin. His coat of arms epitaph hung on the west wall of the Marienkirche next to the Bergenfahrer chapel. It was destroyed in 1942. The Kölerstift at Aegidienstraße 65 , which was created as a poor house, goes back to him . After his death, his brother Anton Koehler followed him into the council.

The portrait of Heinrich Köhler created by Michael Conrad Hirt hangs in the mayor's gallery in Lübeck's town hall . Another portrait is part of the Köhler ancestral gallery of his brother Anton.

literature

Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from older times . Dittmer, 1859, p. 52 ( books.google.de )
Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line . Lübeck 1925, no.739
Emil Julius Hugo Steffenhagen: Colerus, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 401.

Web links

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

References and comments

↑ See the entry of Heinrich Köhler's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

↑ Oratio funebris Magnifico & Nobilissimo Viro Dn. Henrico Colero, Consuli quondam liberae ac Imperialis Reipublicae Lubecensis primario . Meierus, Lubecae 1641 ( 125: 046332X in the VD 17th .)

↑ Figure in BuK II, p. 379

personal data
SURNAME	Koehler, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Colerus, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH	April 6, 1576
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH	March 27, 1641
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] See the entry of Heinrich Köhler's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

[2] Oratio funebris Magnifico & Nobilissimo Viro Dn. Henrico Colero, Consuli quondam liberae ac Imperialis Reipublicae Lubecensis primario . Meierus, Lubecae 1641 ( 125: 046332X in the VD 17th .)

[3] Figure in BuK II, p. 379