Heinrich Remmers
Heinrich Remmers (* in Braunschweig ; † May 28, 1640 in Lübeck ) was councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.
Life
Heinrich Remmers, who immigrated to Lübeck from Braunschweig, was elected to the city council in 1625 . The Lübeck Council commented on him:
"As the oldest judge in the exequir and extermination of witches, he had a lot of trouble"
As a councilor as part of the internal distribution of tasks as a court lord, he was responsible for the witch trials in the context of the witch hunt (1530-1735). At the end of his term of office from 1637, the few death sentences passed against witches in the Free Imperial City under the pressure of the witch hunt in the surrounding area.
Historical classification
47 witch trials are documented in Lübeck. As in other imperial and Hanseatic cities, reluctance was exercised in Lübeck when it came to hunting witches compared to the surrounding area. In case of doubt, witches were expelled from the Lübeck city and country area if the trial was not suppressed (for an example, see butter churn sample ). The situation was different in the Holstein region, in the chapter villages of the Lübeck cathedral chapter and the collegiate villages of the Holy Spirit Hospital as well as the Johanniskloster, which were under the jurisdiction of the cathedral chapter. The legal basis of the proceedings was the Embarrassing Court Regulations of Emperor Charles V.
Opponents of the persecution of witches also operated from Lübeck, such as the Syndicus of the Cathedral Chapter Konrad Anten or the Lübeck Council Syndicus Heinrich Michaelis (1627–1678), who were able to publish their writings from here.
literature
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling: Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, no.750
- Antjekathrin Graßmann: Lübeck-Lexikon , Lübeck 2006 ("witch hunt")
Web links
- Hunting witches in Schleswig-Holstein at historicum.net
- Hunting witches in the history of Schleswig-Holstein from abisz
- Katrin Moeller: "It is an extremely fair law that sorceresses are killed" Witch hunt in Protestant northern Germany at DHM.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Remmers, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th century or 17th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 28, 1640 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |