Hermann Hitfeld

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Hermann Hitfeld (* in Lübeck ; † 1474 there ) was a merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Hermann Hitfeld was the son of the Lübeck citizen Johann Hitfeld. In 1433 he became a member of the patrician circle society . In 1460 he was elected to the Lübeck council. In 1463 he gave the Marienwohlde monastery an interest-bearing loan of 200 Marks Lübisch ; the guilt did not have to be repaid on the basis of his will . Hitfeld died "very old" in 1474; in the end he was blind and deaf.

Hitfeld was married to Katharina, a daughter of the Lübeck citizen Hermann von Stiten . He lived in the house at Aegidienstraße 22 in Lübeck, where the Italian merchant and banker Gherardo Bueri in Lübeck had operated a bank corresponding to the Banca dei Medici until 1455 .

literature

  • Sonja Dünnebeil: The Lübeck Circle Society. Forms of self-portrayal of an urban upper class (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, published by the archive of the Hanseatic city, series B, volume 27) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1996. ISBN 3-7950-0465-9
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925, No. 548

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Deecke : Marienwold in: Vaterländisches Archiv für das Herzogthum Lauenburg , Volume 1, 1857, p. 395
  2. ^ 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 Hitfeld, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH 1474
Place of death Lübeck