Jasper Lange

Jasper Lange († 1510 in Lübeck ) was a merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

The merchant Jasper Lange was elected to the Lübeck council in 1488. From 1498 to 1500, 1502 and from 1505 to 1507 he was the town’s treasurer in the council. As a representative and envoy of the city, he negotiated the salary claims of 45 brushstocks against the Hanseatic city of Rostock in Lübeck in 1488 and in 1503 he was a member of the Lübeck legation, which negotiated with King John I of Denmark in Segeberg about claims for damages from Lübeck merchants. In 1501 Lange became a member of the patrician circle society . He was one of the city's representatives at the Hanseatic Day 1507 in Lübeck.

Lange was married to Geseke, a daughter of the Lübeck businessman Hermann Evinghusen. From 1471 he lived in the house at Königstrasse 19 in Lübeck; At the gates of the city he owned a share of Schlutup . His coat of arms, a golden bar covered with three white ducks on a blue background, was in the south porch of the Jakobikirche . His daughter Anna married the Lübeck councilor Hartwig Stange .

literature

• Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns : The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, p. 338 (Unchanged reprint: 2001, ISBN 3-89557-167-9 )
• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line . Lübeck 1925, no.570