Hinrich Castorp
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Hinrich Castorp (* 1419 in Dortmund ; † April 14, 1488 in Lübeck ) was a merchant and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.
Life
For his time, Castorp embodies the type of successful, newly arrived merchant who, by marrying into the old patrician families, also came to the top of the city socially and politically. After a long stay in the Hanseatic League's office in Bruges , of which he became a senior man in 1447, he came to Lübeck in 1450, where he became a member of the influential circle company . In 1452 he was elected to the city council and in 1462 mayor of the city. He represented the city at important Hanseatic days and was the leading foreign politician of the Hanseatic League of his time, negotiating the Peace of Utrecht (1474) with the Lübeck Syndicus Johannes Osthusen , with which the privileges of the London office of Stalhof were secured.
In 1462 Castorp and five other merchants were among the founders of a richly endowed foundation at St. Mary's Church for holding masses and prayers of the hours in honor of the Virgin Mary, the Marientids . He was buried in the Katharinenkirche , where the grave slab for him and his two wives Adelheid, née. Viockinghusen († before 1472) and Adelheid, b. Kerkring, in the central nave near the first northern pillar, has been preserved in a badly worn condition.
His son Heinrich Castorp also became councilor and mayor of Lübeck.
literature
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 533
- Philippe Dollinger : Die Hanse , p. 232 ff ISBN 3-520-37102-2
- Wilhelm Mantels : Castorp . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 69 f.
- Gerhard Neumann: Hinrich Castorp. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 174 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ So to Melle and following ADB etc .; according to the tombstone in BuK IV, p. 137: 1487
- ^ Klaus Krüger: Corpus of the medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg (1100–1600). (= Kiel historical studies. Vol. 40). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7995-5940-X . (Zugl .: Univ., Diss., Kiel 1993), p. 835 LÜKA40
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Castorp, Hinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Merchant and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1419 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dortmund |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 1488 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |