Johann of Hameln

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Johann von Hameln (* before 1386; † September 29, 1425 in Lübeck ) was a German merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

As a merchant, Johann von Hameln was a member of the Lübeck Mountain Driver and from 1386/87 to 1421 as a merchant in Boston , Lübeck and Sluis . In 1401 he became the senior man of the mountain drivers. During the Wullenweber era, he was a member of the citizens' committee of the 1960s. Nevertheless, after the return of the Old Council, expelled in 1408, in 1416 he was the first councilor to be elected to the council according to old law. He represented the city at the Hanseatic Days in autumn 1416 as well as in May 1422 and July 1423. In wills of Lübeck citizens he is listed more often as a witness and as a guardian . Johann von Hameln lived in a house on Alfstrasse in Lübeck .

literature

  • Mike Burkhardt: The Hanseatic mountains trade in the late Middle Ages. Trade - Merchants - Networks , Böhlau Verlag, 2009, pp. 123–125 ( digitized version )
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 497

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 Hameln, Johann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH before 1386
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1425
Place of death Lübeck