Hermann Meyer (Mayor)

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Seal of Hermann Meyer around 1510

Hermann Meyer (* in Lübeck ; † August 19, 1528 ibid) was mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Meyer was the son of a Lübeck citizen of the same name. He was elected to the city council in 1500. In 1503 he was the finance manager. In 1506 he was a member of the Lübeck embassy, ​​which negotiated in Kiel and later Segeberg with King John I of Denmark about the Lübeck feud . He also represented the city when the coinage treaty was concluded in Hamburg. In 1508 Meyer represented Lübeck at the Hanseatic Congress . Meyer was appointed mayor of the city in 1510. 1512 was in Copenhagen in April to negotiate a peace treaty with Denmark . 1513 he joined the Wendish towns with John I a contract for the Vitten during Skåne Market in Falsterbo that for the herring business of Schonenfahrer were important. Meyer chaired the city days of the Wendish quarter in 1511 and 1516 in Lübeck. In 1516 he traveled to Antwerp as envoy to negotiate the relocation of the Hanseatic Office in Bruges to Antwerp. In the late summer of 1516 he negotiated with King Christian II of Denmark at Sønderborg Castle and in 1517 he was in Lüneburg for arbitration negotiations between the city of Lüneburg and Duke Heinrich II of Braunschweig-Lüneburg. In 1518 he was again negotiating the Hanseatic Office in Antwerp.

Hermann Meyer was married to Anna, a daughter of the Lübeck mayor Bertold Witig , and lived in the house at Sandstrasse 15 in Lübeck . He had been a member of the circle society since 1501. The grave slab in the choir of St. Petrikirche no longer exists.

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personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1528
Place of death Lübeck