Heinrich Schlueter (businessman)

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Henry Schluter , Middle Low German also Hinrich Slüter (* 1593 in Schwerin ; † 26. May 1654 in Lübeck ) was a German merchant.

Life

Heinrich Schlueter came from a family of merchants who traded with Norway as mountain drivers . Several members of the family had become senior men of the mountain drivers. Schlüter was active in trade with Upper Germany . Occasionally he also traded in country estates in the surrounding area. Friedrich Schlie reports from a short time as the owner of Neuenkirchen near Zarrentin am Schaalsee . Schlueter was elected master and head of the St. Anne's monastery .

He was initially married to Margareta, geb. Mecklenburg, then with Anna Margaretha, b. Hunnius (born August 11, 1625 - † October 17, 1660), a daughter of the superintendent Nikolaus Hunnius . She married the mayor Johann Ritter in 1656 as a second marriage .

son

From his first marriage to Margareta Mecklenborg he had the only son Johann (1623-1646), who, in training with the Nuremberg businessman Johann Doppelmayr, was on a trip to the Brenner Pass on February 14, 1646, south of Nuremberg in what is now the district Roth and his armed party were attacked and the victim of robbery and murder. Johann Schlüter was brought to Nuremberg immediately after his death and buried on February 19 in the local Johannisfriedhof . A funeral sermon by Pastor Wolfgang Jacob Dümler was printed in Nuremberg.

  • Stone cross for Johann Schlueter in Mindorf

At the site of the attack in Mindorf , his family placed a sandstone commemorative cross in the style of a medieval atonement cross . For the grave in Nuremberg on the Johannisfriedhof, which was expanded in 1644 (in the north wall on Johannisstrasse), Johann Doppelmayr offered everything that was good and expensive in his time in Nuremberg; a spectacular grave was created that was out of all proportion to the social rank of the merchant's assistant buried there. The architect and master craftsman Johann Carl was involved in the planning of the tomb . The Germanisches Nationalmuseum is keeping a design drawing of him. The gunsmith Johann Wurzelbauer took care of the metalwork of the epitaph and the sculptor Georg Schweigger provided a bust of the deceased. In 1646, the painter Michael Herr created a monumental two-part painting on copper already mentioned by Joachim von Sandrart , which can be traced back to 1831 on the still existing and unmistakable tomb. It showed the deed at the bottom and the Last Judgment with the resurrection of the buried in the upper part.

Heinrich Schlueter's grave slab

Bronze inlay of the grave slab with Heinrich Schlueter's family coat of arms, from which a skeleton is growing

Heinrich Schlueter was buried in a prominent place in Lübeck's Marienkirche in front of the steps to the Gothic high altar . His grave was covered by a 3.23 × 1.97 m grave slab made of sandstone. A bronze inlay 2.25 m high and 1.42 m wide includes the deceased's coat of arms in the middle. The shield shows a rose above, below a heart pierced by a key, on the helmet a growing skeleton with an hourglass in the right hand and the heart pierced by the key in the left. To the side are the smaller coats of arms of his two wives, of which the heraldic right in the shield shows three flowers growing out of a heart and on a ribbon the inscription of Margareta Mecklenborg in the shield as on the helmet , while the left in the split shield shows five bars in the front and one against the back the division upright greyhound with collar, on the helmet growing the same dog and has the inscription Anna Margareta Hunnius . The lower end of the bronze inlay is a cartridge with the inscription Heinrich Schluter Burger und kauffhandler in Lübeck, born in Schwerin in 1595, died on May 26th in 1654 . The upper end is formed by a cartouche towered over by a cherub head with an inscription from Isaiah 26:19  LUT : Your dead will live, your corpses will rise.

The slab survived the air raid on Lübeck in 1942. In the course of the reconstruction and the redesign of the floor, most of the grave slabs disappeared under the raised choir. Schlueter's was preserved as one of only four post-Reformation examples and was erected on the west wall of the south transept near the entrance.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Asmussen, Ulrich Simon and Otto Wiehmann: Archives of the Bergenfahrerkompanie zu Lübeck and the Hansische Kontor zu Bergen in Norway from (1278) and 1314 to 1853. (= Find aids 9) Lübeck: 2002 ( full text )
  2. ↑ The art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, III. Volume: The district court districts of Hagenow, Wittenburg, Boizenburg, Lübenheen, Dömitz, Grabow, Ludwigslust, Neustadt, Crivitz, Brüel, Warin, Neubukow, Kröpelin and Doberan. Schwerin, 1899 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ Ludwig Heller : Nikolaus Hunnius. His life and work; a contribution to the church history of the seventeenth century, mostly based on handwritten sources Lübeck: Rohden 1843 ( digitized version ), p. 199
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Jacob Dümler: Mourning lament / Which King David / about the defeated war colonel / Abner: auss 2. Sam. 3.v.33. Bey respectable and rich funeral cadaver / Deß Weyland Ehrbarn and Fürhaben Johann Schlütters / boy companions / deß ... Mr. / Heinrich Schlütters ... married couple and some son; Which ... 1646 ... different ... simple-minded ... explained / and drawn to the deceased person. Nuremberg: Sartorius 1646 ( VD 17 75: 689935S)
  6. ^ Atonement cross for Johann Schlueter
  7. ↑ For a description of the grave, see Norischer Christen Freydhöfe Gedächtnis. That is: Correct presentation and listing of all those monuments, epitaphs and grave inscriptions which are on and in those three church yards belonging to ... Nuremberg. Nuremberg: Loschge 1682, p. 282f
  8. ^ Claudia Maué: The tomb of Johann Schlütter by Johann Carl and Georg Schweiggers first portrait bust. In: Rainer Kahsnitz, Peter Volk (Hrsg.): Sculpture in Southern Germany. Festschrift for Alfred Schädler . Munich - Berlin 1998, pp. 241-272.
  9. ^ Epitaph Johann Schlueter at Sandrart.net
  10. ↑ 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 ( digitized version ), p. 401
  11. ↑ Max Hasse : The Marienkirche in Lübeck . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-422-00747-4 , p. 208
personal data
SURNAME Schlueter, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlueter, Hinrich; Slueter, Hinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman
DATE OF BIRTH 1593
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1654
Place of death Lübeck