Johann Witik

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Johann Witik (* before 1408; † 1447 in Lübeck ) was councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

During the civil unrest in Lübeck at the beginning of the 15th century, after the Old Council was expelled in 1408, the businessman Johann Witik was elected to the New Council in a by-election in 1413 and was a member of it until the Old Council returned in 1416. In Lübeck citizens' wills he is listed several times as a documentary witness and guardian .

In 1407 Witik had acquired a vacant building site in the Große Petersgrube and built it on. He lived in this house until his death. Johann Witik was married to Gertrud Witik in his first marriage and to Wobbeke Witik († 1490) in his second marriage. He was buried with both wives under a common grave slab in the Petrikirche . The grave slab with inscription is described in the literature, but not preserved. He was the father of the mayor of Lübeck, Bertold Witig .

literature

  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 486
  • Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 983/984 (LÜPE * 19)

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 Witik, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1447
Place of death Lübeck