Johann Bere (Mayor)

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Johann Bere († 1451 in Lübeck ) was a merchant and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

As a merchant, Johann Bere belonged to the Skåne drivers . He became a member of the citizens' committee of the sixties in 1405 and was elected to the city council in 1416 after the return of the old council . In 1436 Johann Bere was appointed one of the Lübeck mayors . He stayed in the city during the reign of the New Council (1408-1416) and was one of the citizens who gave the New Council in 1415 the negotiating mandate for the settlement negotiations set by King Sigismund with the members of the Old Council, which was expelled in 1408. In 1426, as Lübeck councilor, he mediated between Wilhelm I of Braunschweig and the Archbishop of Bremen, Nikolaus von Oldenburg-Delmenhorst . During the war of the Kalmar Union against the Hanseatic League and Holstein he was in 1427 and 1428 commander of the Lübeck fleet and responsible for its use in the siege of Flensburg on the Flensburg Fjord in spring 1427. In August 1428 he took part in negotiations between the Hanseatic city of Lüneburg and Herzog Wilhelm I of Braunschweig took part. As early as September 1428 he represented the city in the peace negotiations with King Eric of Denmark in Nyköping , which were continued there in July 1430 and December 1430 in Helsingborg with his participation. Only in August 1432 was a five-year armistice reached as a negotiation result. In 1437 he represented the Hanseatic cities in the peace negotiations with the Netherlands in Deventer . In June 1439, Bere belonged to a delegation of representatives of the Hanseatic cities that concluded a peace treaty with the Danish knighthood in Lübeck. In 1442, as envoy from Lübeck in Segeberg, he conducted negotiations with Duke Adolf VIII of Holstein. In wills of Lübeck citizens he is mentioned more often, mainly as a documentary witness , but also as a guardian .

Johann Bere was a member of the influential circle society . In 1429 he and Hinrich Rapesulver loaned the city of Lübeck the amount of 4,000 marks Lübisch for the purpose of waging war . In 1439 he was awarded a medal donated by King Albrecht II .

family

Seal of Johann Bere (III) around 1498

Johann Bere was married to Greteke Boitin. They had the following children:

  • Johann Bere († 1457) , 1455 Lübeck councilor, member of the circle society.
  • Ludeke Bere († 1488), 1460 councilor, member of the circle society.
  • Herman, member of the Circle Society (189).
  • Geseke, married to Hans Borsteld.
  • Tybbeke, married to the Italian Gherardo Bueri (Gerardus de Boeris), agent of the Medici in Lübeck

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ^ Family details according to Sonja Dünnebeil: The Lübeck Circle Society. Forms of self-portrayal of an urban upper class (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, published by the Archive of the Hanseatic City, Series B, Volume 27) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1996 ISBN 3-7950-0465-9 , p. 238.
  3. ↑ Fehling, Council Line No. 537
  4. ^ Raymond de Roover : The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank, 1397-1494. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1963, p. 157
personal data
SURNAME Bere, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Merchant and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 1451
Place of death Lübeck