Johann Segeberg

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Johann Segeberg (* around 1384 in Lübeck ; † 1464 there ) was a merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Johann Segeberg was the youngest of 15 children of Lübeck citizen Berthold Segeberg († 1408). He was elected to the city council in 1426 and represented the city in Greifswald in 1441 in negotiations over a dispute between the Lübeck council and Johann Slef , the mayor of Goldberg (Mecklenburg) . In 1444, the council sent him to Wolgast as a mediator to settle a dispute between the Hanseatic city of Rostock and the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order . In 1460 he was the mediator in negotiations between the council of the city of Lüneburg and its Lübeck creditors. In 1434 and 1441 he represented Lübeck at the Hanseatic Days held there . In Lübeck citizens' wills he is listed several times as a documentary witness and guardian . Segeberg had been a member of the circle society since 1429 .

He was married to a daughter of the Lübeck citizen Fritz Grawert († 1449) and lived in the house of Dr.-Julius-Leber-Straße 25 . At the gates of the city he owned an agricultural farm in Sierksrade .

In 1450/51 he donated a new building to the Michaelis Convent founded by his father on the property donated by his father in 1397. The family's grave chapel in Lübeck's Marienkirche , acquired by Timm von Segeberg († 1364) , the Segeberg Chapel was administered by the Segeberg Foundation together with the poor house also donated by Berthold Segeberg in today's Dr.-Julius-Leber-Straße 67 . The Segeberg Foundation existed until the middle of the 19th century and was then merged with the General Hospital in Lübeck.

  • Dr.-Julius-Leber-Strasse 25

  • Segeberg's poor house , Dr.-Julius-Leber-Strasse 67

  • Michaelskonvent , St.-Annen-Straße 5

literature

  • Rudolf Struck : The Segeberg family from Lübeck and their relationships with the universities of Rostock and Greifswald. In: Journal of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology. ISSN  0083-5609 , Vol. 20 (1919), pp. 85-116.
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, No. 505.
  • Rafael Ehrhardt: Family and Memoria in the City. A case study on Lübeck in the late Middle Ages. Dissertation . Göttingen 2001. with a prosopography of the council families von Alen, Darsow, Geverdes, Segeberg and Warendorf.

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 Segeberg, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH around 1384
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH 1464
Place of death Lübeck