Johann Sine

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Johann Sine , also Sina or Tzine († 1467 in Lübeck ) was a German merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

As a businessman, Johann Sine was a member of the corporation of mountain drivers in Lübeck. He was elected to the Lübeck Council in 1447. During his term of office, the unauthorized collection of an English merchant ship by the mountain drivers in the Skagerrak , on which three English diplomats (the doctorate lawyer Thomas Kent and two merchants) were. The cargo of the ship, worth 100,000 Rhenish guilders , was sold by the Danish King Christian I in Copenhagen . The English ambassadors initially remained in Lübeck's hands. This case triggered a crisis both in the Hanseatic League itself and internationally. The Hanseatic merchants of the London Stalhof were by the English King Henry VI. arrested. In Lübeck citizens' wills he is listed several times as a documentary witness and guardian .

In 1452 Sine became a member of the patrician circle society . In 1454, Sine, together with two other councilors from Lübeck, lent Duke Adolf VIII of Schleswig-Holstein the amount of 3,000 marks Lübisch so that he could redeem Trittau Castle as a pledge .

Sine lived in the property at Breite Straße 48 in Lübeck until 1454 and then at Mengstraße 40. His daughter Margarethe married the future mayor of Lübeck, David Divessen .

literature

  • Sonja Dünnebeil: The Lübeck Circle Society. Forms of self-portrayal of an urban upper class (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, published by the archive of the Hanseatic city, series B, volume 27) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1996. ISBN 3-7950-0465-9
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, No. 527

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Daenell: The heyday of the German Hanseatic League: Hanseatic history from the second half of the XIV to the last quarter of the XV. Century , Walter de Gruyter, 2001, p. 24 ff.
  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
personal data
SURNAME Sine, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sina, Johann; Tzine, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 1467
Place of death Lübeck