Hermann Messmann

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Hermann Messmann (* around 1455 , probably in Münster ; † March 25, 1515 in Lübeck ) was a merchant, councilor and diplomat of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Messmann's origins from Münster are not documented from there, but only an assumption assumed in research. He is documented as a young German clerk in Stockholm in 1475. His very good relations with Swedish politicians date from this time . After 1485 he became a citizen of Lübeck and ran his extensive trade with Stockholm as a merchant from Lübeck. The pound customs books kept in Lübeck place him in seventh place in the list of Lübeck merchants trading with Stockholm for the period from 1492–1496. In 1494 he was the owner of two ships and held seven parts in other ships. In 1502 he owned land in Stockholm.

Messmann became a councilor in Lübeck in 1496. He was from 1500–1506 and 1512–1515 Lübeck bailiff of the two cities Bergedorf . In his first term on the Castle Mountain village he left in 1501, the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Bergedorf newly built. In the meantime Messmann was Lübeck bailiff on the Riepenburg from 1506 to 1512 .

In 1503 he was in Sweden , accompanied by councilor Berend Bomhover , where it was achieved through diplomatic channels that Queen Christina was released due to his good personal relationships with the Swedish imperial administrator Sten Sture the Elder . At the beginning of the Danish-Luebian War in 1509 he commanded the Lübeck fleet against King John I of Denmark under his admiral Jens Holgersen Ulfstand , also together with councilor Bomhover . In 1509 he occupied the island of Bornholm with the Lübeck fleet . Both Bornholm and Gotland were devastated. Also in the following years until 1511 he was in command of the Lübeck fleet. In 1510 he acquired two warships for the Swedish ruler Svante Sture in Lübeck and equipped them.

His son of the same name, Hermann Mes (s) mann, became owner of Vicarie No. 32 at St. Mary's Church after the death of Canon Franz Diemann , who held it in trust for him, but died before 1537. His daughter Gertrud married councilor Andreas Bussmann .

literature

  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 579.
  • Harald Richert: Castle captains and officials in Bergedorf . In Lichtwark booklet no. 59. Ed. Lichtwark Committee, 1994. See now: Verlag HB-Werbung, Hamburg-Bergedorf, ISSN  1862-3549 .
  • Hans-Jürgen Vogtherr: Hermann Messmann . In: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck Volume 11. Karl Wachholtz, Neumünster 2000, ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , pp. 263-266.
  • Antjekathrin Graßmann : Social rise around 1500 in Lübeck in: Günther Schulz: Social rise: functional elites in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern period. Büdinger research on social history 2000 and 2001, Walter de Gruyter, 2015, p. 103 ff.

Web links

Wikisource: Herr Hermann Meßmann (Sage)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hans-Jürgen Vogtherr: Hermann Messmann . In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck Volume 11. Karl Wachholtz, Neumünster 2000, ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , p. 263.
  2. ↑ St. Petri and Pauli on www.bergedorf-info.de
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Prange : Vicariates and Vicars in Lübeck up to the Reformation. (= Publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Series B, vol. 40). Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2003 ISBN 3-7950-0478-0 , pp. 67, 149 No. 103.
personal data
SURNAME Messmann, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Messmann, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Merchant, councilor and admiral of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH around 1455
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1515
Place of death Lübeck