Hermann Langenbeck

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Portrait of Hermann Langenbeck ( Wilm Dedeke , around 1515, Kunsthalle Hamburg)

Hermann Langenbeck (* 1452 in Buxtehude ; † May 1, 1517 in Hamburg ) was a lawyer and mayor of Hamburg. It is the oldest surviving portrait of a Hamburg mayor.

Act

The doctor of law was elected councilor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in 1479 at the age of 26. During the time of the decline of the Hanseatic League, he showed great diplomatic skills to protect Hamburg's interests.

As early as February 1482, Hermann Langenbeck was elected as the successor to the highly respected and deceased mayor Hinrich Murmeister . He first got into trouble with the citizens in the autumn of the same year when he wanted to legally reform the Harvestehude monastery, where the daughters of the wealthy people of Hamburg led a rather relaxed life. Even during an economic crisis, which resulted in a popular uprising on Ascension Day 1483 and Langenbeck was also exposed to severe criticism, he calmed the quarreling masses and introduced a new citizen oath , which was spoken in Low German until 1844 and then applied in High German until 1918 .

The renewal and consolidation of the Hamburg stacking privilege of 1482 was also an important and successful task for Langenbeck. Langenbeck offered strong resistance to the establishment of the Imperial Chamber Court at the instigation of the Roman-German King Maximilian I (1495). He saw Hamburg's particular law threatened, as did Hamburg's constitutional position. The Hamburgers were forbidden to appeal to the Reich Chamber Court.

Inside, Langenbeck had the right to speak, which was only available in disordered collections of privileges, documents, contracts, etc. and, with its contradictions, could often lead to ongoing legal disputes. Langenbeck's orderly procedure here led to the publication of the Hamburg city ​​law of 1497 , which together with a commentary on Langenbeck's gloss , established his reputation as the "father of Hamburg law". Technical support he found by Ratssyndicus Albert Krantz and Lübeck syndic Mattheus Packebusch .

Life and family

Hermann Langenbeck was born in Buxtehude as the youngest child of the local mayor Garleff (II) Langenbeck (approx. 1400–1465) and Mechthild vam Mere († 1452) from Hamburg, whose ancestors came from Holland. Since his mother died shortly after his birth, Gerhard Halepaghe became his guardian.

Hermann Langenbeck first attended the Latin school in Buxtehude, later the cathedral school (Marianum) in Hamburg.

At the age of 16 he was enrolled in April 1467 at the University of Rostock and here in 1469/70 bachelor's degree and 1471/72 master's degree. After completing his undergraduate studies in 1470, he first chose theology as a subject, then was matriculated at the University of Greifswald in 1473, studied law here and received his doctorate in August 1475 with a bachelor's degree in both rights. In October of that year he was elected rector of the University of Greifswald. In 1477 he stayed in Italy for more than a year and obtained a doctorate in both rights at the papal University of Perugia. In 1478 he left Italy and a year later he was councilor in Hamburg.

In May 1479 he married Anna Bremer (1459–1485) in Hamburg, a daughter of the Hamburg mayor (since 1447) Detlev Bremer (1403–1459) and Anna Bekerholt. One son was Hermann (II) Langenbeck (approx. 1483–1532), later married to Anna Huge, daughter of the Hamburg mayor Johann (I) Huge (approx. 1420–1504). A representation of these family connections can be found in "Slechtbok" from 1541 by Joachim Moller the Elder .

literature

  • Kirsten Maack: Portrait of the mayor Hermann Langenbeck in: Jan Friedrich Richter (Ed.): Lübeck 1500 - Art metropolis in the Baltic region , catalog, Imhoff, Petersberg 2015, pp. 324–325 (No. 55)
  • Heinrich Reincke in: Research and Sketches on Hamburg History, Hamburg, 1951, Dr. Hermann Langenbeck from Buxtehude,
  • Karin Wiedemann in: Communications of the Hamburg Judges Association, digitized: No. 1/2002 and No. 2/2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Mönckeberg: History of the free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg. Hamburg: Perstehl 1885, p. 149
  2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  5. ^ Heinrich Reinecke:  Detlev Bremer d. Ä .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 580 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Langenbeck, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langenbeken, Hermann; Langenbeke, Hermann; Langebek, Hermann; Langebeke, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer, Mayor (Hamburg)
DATE OF BIRTH 1452
PLACE OF BIRTH Buxtehude
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1517
Place of death Hamburg