Hermann Petersen (Lübeck)

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Hermann Petersen (* around 1592 in Vlotho ; † December 18, 1675 in Lübeck ) was a German merchant and councilor in Lübeck.

Life

Hermann Petersen came to Lübeck as a commercial apprentice in 1608. Petersen was a senior man of the Lübeck skipper driver in 1637 . In 1638 he became head of the "Spanish Collection" in Lübeck, an association of Lübeck long-distance trade merchants who were active in trade with the Iberian Peninsula. Petersen was elected councilor in Lübeck in 1651. It was handed down as a weather ruler in 1658 . He died at the age of 82 and was buried in Lübeck's Marienkirche , where his grave slab has been preserved.

literature

  • Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from earlier times , Lübeck 1859, there p. 106-108: Der Lübeckische Rath in 1660
  • 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, p. 403 ( digitized version )
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925, No. 778
personal data
SURNAME Petersen, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and councilor in Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH around 1592
PLACE OF BIRTH Vlotho
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1675
Place of death Lübeck