Johann Kollmann (Mayor)

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Seal of Johann Kollmann (around 1436–1443)

Johann Kollmann (* in Lübeck ; † 1454 ibid) was a German merchant and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Johann Kollmann was the son of Lübeck councilor Johann Kollmann , who had been a member of the New Council between 1414 and 1416. He was elected to the Lübeck Council in 1428. Kollmann represented the city as an envoy in numerous diplomatic missions. Together with the councilor Johann Klingenberg he was with King Erik VII of Denmark in 1430 . In 1432 he mediated between the Hamburg council and Lübeck merchants in a shipping matter. In 1432 he was in the settlement negotiations with the Danish king in Horsens , in 1434 in negotiations with the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish councilors in Vordingborg . Kollmann tried the city council in 1440To convince Lüneburg of the necessity of a joint action against the Dutch and was in Kolding in the same year for negotiations with King Christoph III. from Denmark. Missions took him to Copenhagen in 1441, Rostock in 1443 and Hamburg in 1445. In 1443 he was appointed mayor of Lübeck in the council . In wills of Lübeck citizens he is mentioned more often as a documentary witness and as a guardian .

Kollmann lives on the property at Breite Straße 49 .

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
personal data
SURNAME Kollmann, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH 1454
Place of death Lübeck