Johann Lange (Mayor)

Seal of Johann Lange

Johann Lange († 1415 in Lübeck) was mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Johann Lange was the son of the Lübeck councilor Hermann Lange . Johann Lange had already appeared as a critic of the Old Council since 1405 . He was on the Finance Committee and Citizens Committee of the 1960s. Long negotiated with the expelled Old Council in Mölln . Shortly afterwards he received the supreme command of the Lübeck troops, consisting of armed citizens of the city, from the citizens' committee of the 1960s. In 1408 Johann Lange was elected to the New Council . He was mayor of Lübeck in 1408 and 1409 . His resignation from the New Council took place between his time as mayor and his death in 1415. In Lübeck citizens' wills he is listed several times as a documentary witness and guardian .

Long was born with Adelheid. Morkerke, a daughter of councilor Thomas Morkerke . He lived in the house at Königstraße 15 in Lübeck from 1394 to 1404 , after which he moved to Breite Straße 48 . In 1404 Lange sold the Rondeshagen estate for 300 marks in Lübisch. In 1401 he bought Sierksrade . He had the patronage of a vicarie in the Jakobikirche , which he renounced in 1413 in favor of the Lübeck council. In Lübeck Cathedral , the coat of arms grave slab of Laurentius Lange, who died around 1420, has been handed down, but there is no evidence in the inventory, which showed the same family coat of arms.

literature

Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 447

Individual evidence

↑ Fehling, Lübeckische Ratslinie , No. 408
↑ 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
↑ Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 593 (LÜDO112)

personal data
SURNAME	Lange, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH	14th Century
DATE OF DEATH	1415
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] Fehling, Lübeckische Ratslinie , No. 408

[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

[3] Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 593 (LÜDO112)