Johann Ritter (Mayor)
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Johann Ritter (born September 27, 1622 in Lübeck ; † September 1, 1700 ibid) was a lawyer, Comes Palatinus (Count Palatine) and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.
Life
Ritter was the son and elder of 9 siblings of the Lübeck businessman Andreas Ritter (around 1590–1653) and grandson of the mayor of Neustadt in Holstein Hans Ritter (around 1570–1638). From 1641 he studied law at the universities of Königsberg , Strasbourg and the University of Helmstedt , where he was handed down as a respondent in 1651 . After graduating as Lic. Iur. he went on the Grand Tour and toured France and Italy. In Lübeck he was elected to the city council in 1659. As a delegated councilor, he represented the city of Lübeck together with the councilor Diedrich von Brömbsen in Graz to pay homage to Emperor Leopold I. On this occasion he was personally appointed Count Palatinate (Comitis Palatini Caesarei in amplissima forma) by the emperor.
He was involved in the development of the cash process and signed the Lübeck Citizens' Recess as a council member in 1669 . In the same year he became the Council for mayor determined and had in 1669 presided over the last Hanseatic day in Luebeck. He was also involved as an envoy in the negotiations in connection with the Scandinavian War between Denmark and Sweden and in the return of the town of Mölln , which was held as pledge in Lübeck, to the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg . During his tenure, Lübeck was not directly affected by armed conflict, but as a free imperial city had to pay considerable surcharges to the Holy Roman Empire to finance the Reunion Wars against France and for the Turkish Wars ( Reichstürkenhilfe ), which undermined the financial power of the city and led to a sharp increase the national debt of Lübeck. Ritter was appointed Count of the Court Palatinate by the Emperor .
Johann Ritter was married twice. His first marriage was in 1656 with Anna Margarethe Hunnius († 1660), daughter of superintendent Nicolai Hunnius and widow of the mountain driver Heinrich Schlueter . After her death, he married Anna Schirmeister († 1693), the businessman Franz Schirmeister's daughter and widow of the businessman Joachim Brandtes, three years later. The first marriage had three sons: Nicolaus Hinrich (* 1657), Nicolaus Andreas (* 1658) and Johann (* 1659), all three of whom died as small children; and a daughter, Anna Margaretha (1660-1733) who married the lawyer Achilles Daniel Leopold († 1722) in 1675. From the 2nd marriage a son named Andreas was born, who also died as an infant, and a daughter who was baptized with the name Engel. In 1682 she married the lawyer and later mayor Adolf Mattheus Rodde (1655–1729), youngest son of the mayor Matthäus Rodde the Elder. Ä.
The councilor Gerhard Ritter (1629–1717) and the pastor and senior Georg Ritter (1639–1706) were his younger brothers.
The funeral sermon was written by the Lübeck polyhistor and senior to St. Marien Jacob von Melle .
His epitaph , a wooden monument in huge proportions, hung on the north side of the second (seen from the east) southern long nave pillar of the Marienkirche , diagonally opposite the pulpit. A bulbous sarcophagus stood on a simple base, which carried a simple oval inscription plaque . Above him, two putti held the bust of the deceased painted on copper; next to it sat a grieving female figure with death emblems. The back wall was formed by a mighty obelisk with a cross at the top , in front of which floated a putti with the mayor's little white coat of arms enclosed in a cartouche. The shape of a coffin, which, as some claim , does not enclose his body , made it one of the church's notable monuments. It burned during the air raid on Palm Sunday night 1942.
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literature
- Jürgen Asch: Council and citizenship in Lübeck 1598-1669 . Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, 1961
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925 No. 785
- Anne-Dore Ketelsen-Volkhardt: Schleswig-Holstein Epitaphs of the 16th and 17th Centuries , Neumünster: Karl Wachholtz, 1989 (Studies on Schleswig-Holstein Art History, Vol. 15) ISBN 3-529-02515-1
- Gustav Schaumann ; Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906, pp. 127, 372.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Funeral sermon for the mayor of Lübeck Johann Ritter
- ↑ Gustav Schaumann, Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck . Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906 ( digitized version ) p. 372
- ↑ Johann Aegidius Funk : The oddities of the Marien Church in Lübeck. Lübeck 18, p. 11
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ritter, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mayor of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1622 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1, 1700 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |