Hermann von Alen

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Hermann von Alen (* in Lübeck ; † May 29, 1411 ibid) was a German merchant and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Hermann von Alen was the son of Hinrich von Alen, a citizen of Lübeck. Together with other Lübeck citizens in the so-called Finance Committee , Hermann von Alen was commissioned on February 22nd, 1408 by the Citizens Committee of the Sixties and the Common Citizenship to collect the city's income in order to ensure the settlement of the city's public burdens. He was also one of the citizens who negotiated unsuccessfully with the members of the Old Council who remained in the city about the need to supplement the Lübeck Council, which led to the formation of the New Council . In this, Hermann von Alen was immediately elected mayor of Lübeck and held this office until 1411. He represented the city in 1410 at the Hanseatic Congress in Wismar . At the end of 1410 he represented the city when the coinage treaty was concluded with the Wendish cities of Hamburg , Lüneburg and Wismar.

Hermann von Alen lived in the property at Breite Straße 18 from 1404 to 1409 and in the house at Johannisstraße 20 from 1409 . In 1406 he made his will . He was buried in the Marienkirche in Lübeck , where a fragment of his tombstone has been preserved. According to his will from 1406, he actually wanted to be buried in the Katharinenkirche in his father's grave. His children left the city after his death, his widow Sophie nee. Ascheberg († 1421) married the later Lübeck councilor Nicolaus Robele in 1412 .

literature

  • 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. 388 (digitized version) .
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, No. 446.
  • Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100–1600. Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7995-5940-X , pp. 904-905. LÜMA18

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Both can be the same name patrician Lübeck Council family of Alen contrary to the suggestion in Fehling Council line kinship not assign; see. Rafael Ehrhardt: Family and Memoria in the City. A case study on Lübeck in the late Middle Ages. Dissertation. Göttingen 2001, with a prosopography of the council families von Alen, Darsow, Geverdes, Segeberg and Warendorf. (online at: ediss.uni-goettingen.de )
  2. ↑ Gunnar Meyer: “possessing citizens” and “miserable sicknesses”: Lübeck's society in the mirror of their wills 1400–1449 (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, published by the archive of the Hanseatic city, series B, volume 48) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2010 ISBN 978-3-7950-0490-3
  3. ↑ Fehling: Council line. No. 516.
personal data
SURNAME Alen, Hermann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1411
Place of death Lübeck