Johann Hovemann

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Johann Hovemann († 1447 in Lübeck ) was a Lübeck councilor.

Life

Memorial plaque to the Oldesloer Saline in Lübeck

Johann Hovemann was elected to the council of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck in 1428. In 1431 he represented Lübeck in Wismar in negotiations about equipping the warships of the Hanseatic League, whose Wendish cities were at war with Denmark because of the sound tariff . In 1430 he tried to put the saltworks in Oldesloe back into operation together with other Lübeck citizens and was then Sülzherr of this saltworks with judicial powers. At the salt storage facility in Lübeck, a plaque commemorates this saltworks, which sold its last storage facility in Lübeck in 1839. In 1446 he became Lübeck bailiff on the Riepenburg , that of Hamburgand Lübeck were managed jointly in alternation. In Lübeck citizens' wills he is listed several times as a documentary witness and guardian . Hovemann lived in the house King's Road 97 in Luebeck.

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