Hermann Rodde
Hermann Rodde (born April 9, 1666 in Lübeck ; † May 19, 1730 ibid) was a merchant and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.
Life
Hermann Rodde was the son of the Lübeck merchant Adolf Rodde († 1686) from a younger line of the merchant and patrician family Rodde . After the death of his father, he first worked in Adolf Lassenbrandt's trading business in Nuremberg . From there he traveled to Regensburg, Vienna and Ofen. In 1689 he returned to his hometown and became a member of the merchant company . In 1696 he made a tour of Germany and the Netherlands. The baroque poet Nathanael Schlott dedicated his collection of poems "A handful of poetic leaves" to him in 1702 (along with other Lübeck patricians). Hermann Rodde was elected to the city council in 1708 . As councilor, he was part of the delegation that welcomed Tsar Peter I to the city in 1716. In 1717 he was appointed one of the mayors of the council.
Rodde owned a summer house in front of the Holsten Gate . He was the head of the Maria Magdalenenkirche (Lübeck) ; one of the bells of this church with his coat of arms and those of the three other church leaders is preserved in the Curau church . In 1717 he donated the baroque altar made by the sculptor Hieronymus Hassenberg for the Jakobikirche (Lübeck) , on which his bust is located.
After his death, a mighty epitaph was placed in Lübeck's Marienkirche , which was located on the north side of the sixth (westernmost) north pillar. On the sturdy base of the wooden monument, bearing an inscription, stood a sarcophagus, next to which sat the life-size figures of Faith and Justice. Above it rose a high stele-like structure, divided into three levels, with the Rodden coat of arms and the bust, held by a floating angel of trumpets and painted by Jürgen Matthias von der Hude . Like almost all wooden monuments and epitaphs in the church, it burned in the air raid on Palm Sunday 1942 .
The Lübeck councilor Adolph Rodde was a nephew and entered his business.
literature
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 836
- 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 ( digitized version ), p. 378.
Individual evidence
- ↑ so according to Fehling; BuK II (lit.): May 9th
- ↑ Illustration in Strong: Church History , 1724 (in the city view from the west)
- ↑ Description according to BuK II (Lit.), p. 378
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rodde, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Merchant and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1666 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 19, 1730 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |