Heinrich Wedemhof (politician, 1584)

Mayor Heinrich Wedemhof

epitaph

Heinrich Wedemhof (born September 11, 1584 in Lübeck ; † January 9, 1651 ibid) was a German politician and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Heinrich Wedemhof was one of the sons of Lübeck councilor Heinrich Wedemhof , who came from Münster / Westphalia and was one of the richest citizens of the city with an estate of 200,000 Marks on his death . His brother Bernhard Wedemhof († 1627) was also a councilor from Lübeck.

Heinrich Wedemhof studied law at the University of Strasbourg from 1596 - together with his brother Bernhard and Thomas Lindemann , who was traveling as a Preceptor - and from 1611 at the University of Rostock . He was appointed to the Lübeck Council in 1628, shortly after the death of his brother Bernhard. As early as 1631 he was appointed one of the city's mayors . Wedemhof was the town’s treasurer from 1631 to 1635 and again in 1641. The council gave him the Strecknitz estate as a benefice . Like his brother Bernhard, he was also given an epitaph in the Marienkirche in Lübeck . It came into the museum in 1892 and is now on display in the St-Annen-Museum .

He was married in the first marriage to Elisabeth Wibbeking, daughter of Paul Wibbeking and in the second marriage to Emerentia von Dassel , daughter of Ludolf von Dassel, councilor of Lüneburg. Sixteen years before his death, he was unable to leave his house to go about his official business because of his “weak body”.

Fonts

Themata iuridica de heredibus instituendis , Strasbourg 1601

literature

Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925. No. 751
Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lückeckische families from older times. Verlag Dittmer 1859, p. 94.
Gustav Schaumann , Friedrich Bruns (arr.): 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 ).

Web links

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

Publications by and about Heinrich Wedemhof in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

↑ Fehling, Council Line , No. 703.
↑ Fehling, Ratslinie , No. 740.
↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
↑ BuK II, p. 356.
↑ Info and illustration
^ Friedrich Bruns †: The Lübeck Council. Composition, addition and management, from the beginning to the 19th century. In: ZVLGA , Volume 32 (1951), pp. 1–69, p. 60 (Chapter 9: Conclusion of Council Membership )

personal data
SURNAME	Wedemhof, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH	September 11, 1584
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH	January 9, 1651
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] Fehling, Council Line , No. 703.

[2] Fehling, Ratslinie , No. 740.

[3] Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal

[4] BuK II, p. 356.

[5] Info and illustration

[6] Friedrich Bruns †: The Lübeck Council. Composition, addition and management, from the beginning to the 19th century. In: ZVLGA , Volume 32 (1951), pp. 1–69, p. 60 (Chapter 9: Conclusion of Council Membership )