Hermann Bilderbeck (Councilor)

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Hermann Bilderbeck (* 1729 in Lübeck ; † 1798 ibid) was a merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Hermann Bilderbeck was the son of the senior man of the merchant company in Lübeck Martin Bilderbeck († 1757) and grandson of Lübeck councilor Hermann Bilderbeke . In 1756 he founded his own trading business in Lübeck. As a merchant he was a member of the merchant company and in 1771 became its senior man. In 1783 he was elected to the Lübeck council at the suggestion of the merchant company. He was the bourgeois head of the Holy Spirit Host Hospital and remained as such in the headship even after his council election.

He was married to Katharina geb. Wessel, the widow of the citizen Hermann Adolf Brüning († 1754). The Lübeck councilor Hermann Harris man was his nephew.

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