Johann Stolterfoht (Councilor)

Johann Stolterfoht , also Hans Stolterfoht (* around 1495 in Reval ; † September 29, 1548 in Lübeck ) was councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Johann Stolterfoht belonged to a citizens' committee in 1529 , of which Harmen Israhel was one of the speakers . This committee required the Council to disclose income and expenditure in advance of the collection of new taxes. Stolterfoth expressly did not support the additional demand, particularly raised by Israhel, for evangelical preachers.

He was elected to the Lübeck Council in 1530 . He was a strict Catholic at the time of his council election. During the Wullenwever period , as an opponent of Wullenwever, he and other like-minded councilors had to resign from the Lübeck council on April 11, 1534 and received house arrest. On November 12, 1534 he rejoined the Lübeck council . Stolterfoht was from 1540–1541, 1543–1544 and 1546–1547 the town’s treasurer.

In 1526 he married Elisabeth Lüneburg, a daughter of the Lübeck citizen Thomas Lüneburg and granddaughter of Heinrich Brömse . His son, the cloth merchant Arnold Stolterfoht, died in 1561. He was the father of pastor Johann Stolterfoht .

literature

• Hermann Gustaf Stolterfoht: News about the Stolterfoht family . Max Schmidt Verlag, Lübeck 1920, p. 51
• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, No. 623