Hermann Gallin

Hermann Gallin († December 17, 1365 in Lübeck ) was a merchant and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Hermann Gallin was the son of the Lübeck citizen Gerhard Gallin. As a merchant he was active in trade with Flanders . He ran his very wealthy trading house together with his brother Gerhard Gallin until his death in 1350. Hermann Gallin was elected to the Lübeck council in 1351. In 1359 he became one of the city's mayors. He donated a vicarie to the Marienkirche in Lübeck and built the Gallin Chapel named after him on the northern ambulatory east of the Dance of Death chapel , in which he was buried under a brass grave plate. The stone with inlaid brass plate was a work from Flanders and is assigned to the Tournai school in literature . It is described but not preserved; the brass insert was missing as early as 1700.

Hermann Gallin lived in the house at Breite Strasse 52, which he had bought in 1322.

literature

• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 368
• 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
• Klaus Krüger : Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 894 f. (LÜMA * 6)