Heinrich Kerkring (1610–1693)

Epitaph Heinrich Kerkring

Heinrich Kerkring (* 1610 in Lübeck ; † May 23, 1693 ibid) was a councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Kerkring came from a younger branch of the council sitting in Luebeck since the Middle Ages Family Kerkring . From 1627 he studied law at the universities of Rostock , Königsberg and Groningen . After graduating, he traveled to England and France. In 1643 he became a member of the patrician circle society in Lübeck. He was elected councilor in 1654 and appointed mayor of the Lübeck council in 1671.

As a councilor, he represented the city several times as an envoy. In 1658 he was with King Karl X. Gustav of Sweden during his stay in Schleswig-Holstein, in 1659 he represented Lübeck's shipping interests at the court of Copenhagen. In 1660 he was with General Raimondo Montecuccoli , who had taken quarters with the imperial troops in the Vierlanden .

Kerkring was the head of the Jakobikirche , but allowed the Reformed parish of Lübeck to hold church services in his summer house in front of the Holsten Gate .

In his first marriage he was married to Elisabeth, born in 1632. Plönnies , widowed Meding. In 1672 he married Anna, geb. von Stiten , the widow of the councilor of the same name Heinrich Kerkring († 1670) .

His epitaph in Lübeck's Marienkirche with his full portrait of Godfrey Kneller , made in 1676, was destroyed in an air raid on Lübeck in 1942.

Fonts

List of the noble families of the Zirckel-Gesellschaft in Lübeck, What about those before a Bewandtnuß as they are in this kayserl. Freye came to the imperial city of Lübeck; What she did there; also how they finally left; so the only thing that remained a little behind; All those who are still insidious to the news that because they are also going off and getting smaller, they may still have some science about it. Moritz Schmalhertz, Lübeck 1689

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. 368 f. ( Digitized version ).
Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925, No. 780

Individual evidence

↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal .
↑ See the Kerkring family tree at Anton Fahne : The Lords and Barons v. Hövel along with the genealogy of the families from which they took their wives (history of one hundred Rhenish, Westphalian, Dutch and other outstanding families), Volume 1.2, History and genealogy of those families from which the Lords of Hövel took their wives, Cologne 1860 . ( Digitized version of the Göttingen Digitization Center), panel V

personal data
SURNAME	Kerkring, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH	1610
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH	May 23, 1693
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal .

[2] See the Kerkring family tree at Anton Fahne : The Lords and Barons v. Hövel along with the genealogy of the families from which they took their wives (history of one hundred Rhenish, Westphalian, Dutch and other outstanding families), Volume 1.2, History and genealogy of those families from which the Lords of Hövel took their wives, Cologne 1860 . ( Digitized version of the Göttingen Digitization Center), panel V