Johann Growe

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Johann Growe († before 1423) was a Lübeck merchant and briefly mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Johann Growe was a Lübeck merchant and senior man of the Lübeck mountain drivers . He was one of the citizens of Lübeck who exposed themselves to the civil unrest at the beginning of the 15th century against the "old" Lübeck council, which was then expelled from the city in 1408 . He was a member of the Sixties Committee , the Finance Committee of the Citizenship and the Council Election Commission in May 1408. Elected to the New Council in 1408, he was mayor of the city in 1411 and 1412. In 1411 Growe was together with the councilor Hermann Vincke as envoy of the New Lübeck Council in Bruges to get the merchants in the Hanseatic Office in Bruges to recognize the New Council. In 1415 he was together with the Lübeck mayor Hinrich Schönenberg and Elert Stange at the Council of Constance with King Sigismund and in 1416 in Copenhagen to negotiate the re-establishment of the old council from 1408. In July 1416 he tried to justify himself together with Schönenberg and Stange in Copenhagen because of the accusations made against King Erik VII of Denmark. After his return he was arrested (like Schönenberg and other members of the New Council) at the instigation of the royal ambassador who had meanwhile arrived in Lübeck and only released again after he had promised to make a declaration of honor for Erik VII in front of Sigismund, which he ( together with Schönenberg and Marquard Schutte ) also did in 1417. He lived in the house at Alfstrasse 20 in Lübeck. He is listed several times as a documentary witness and guardian in wills from Lübeck citizens .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RI XI, 1 n.2470 Regesta Imperii Online
  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
personal data
SURNAME Growe, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lübeck businessman and briefly mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH before 1423