Johann Poepping

Johann Poepping

Johann Pöpping (* 1608 ; † October 12, 1657 in Lübeck ) was a lawyer and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Pöpping was the son of Lübeck Council Secretary Friedrich Popping and grandson of Council Secretary Nikolaus Popping . He studied law in Königsberg (Prussia) and Groningen . Then Pöpping toured the Netherlands and France. He was then elected council secretary in Lübeck in 1640 and in the city council in 1646. In 1646 he represented the city as envoy in negotiations with the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands in The Hague in negotiations about the existing alliance with them. In 1654 he was a member of the legation under Mayor David Gloxin , which tried during the First Bremen-Swedish War to negotiate an armistice and a settlement between Bremen and Sweden . He also represented the council before the Reichshofrat in Vienna in a trial of the Lübeck brewers 'guild against Lübeck patricians with agricultural property in the area around the city, because the council, in its capacity as a court, had fined the brewers' elders .

Johann Pöpping was the son-in-law of the council secretary and later councilor Johann Feldhusen . The rector of the Katharineum in Lübeck Sebastian Meier gave him the funeral speech. After his death, Pöpping received an epitaph in the Marienkirche in Lübeck .

literature

• Sebastian Meier : Programma in exequiis ... dn. Johannis Poppingii JCti, ... senatoris ... scriptum a M. Sebastiano Mejero Lubecensis scholae rectore, Lubecae 1657
• Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries until the constitutional amendment of 1851 in ZVLGA Volume 29 (1938), p. 150/151.
• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925, No. 772

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fehling with reference to Wilhelm von Bippen : History of Bremen , Volume III, p. 96
2. ↑ BuK II, 357