Konrad Brekewoldt (Mayor)

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Konrad Brekewoldt (* in Lübeck ; † 1436 there ) was mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Konrad ( Cord ) Brekewoldt was the son of the Lübschen citizen Hartwig Brekewoldt and a clothing tailor . He belonged to the Lübeck council from 1406 to 1408 and after the return of the old council in 1416 until his death. He stayed in the city during the civil unrest in 1408 and was one of the councilors who negotiated in Mölln in 1408 . He did not join the lawsuit of the Old Council against the New Council of 1408 before the Imperial Court of Justice . In 1416, when the Old Council returned, he and Councilor Ditmar von Thünen had to estimate the possible added value of the properties of the members of the Old Council expropriated by the New Council, which had been structurally changed in the meantime. In 1417 he was elected mayor of Lübeck and subsequently represented the city on many diplomatic missions: in 1417 with King Erich VII of Denmark, in the same year he was in Gottorf with Tidemann Steen and once more with Hinrich Rapesulver and Tidemann Steen in Flensburg and Gottorf, where it was possible to agree an armistice with King Erich and the dukes of Schleswig-Holstein. Also in 1417, at the end of 1417 in Hamburg , he agreed on a settlement in the dispute between the council and the community. In February 1418 he represented the city in Hamburg in negotiations on issues relating to the Hanseatic League and in Stade with representatives from Bremen , but also in Stade there was a dispute to be settled between the city council and the municipality. In 1418 he was again in Hamburg. In 1426 he mediated between Duke Wilhelm von Calenberg and Archbishop Nikolaus von Bremen. In 1427 he was on behalf of the city and the Hanseatic League for negotiations with the Prussian cities of the Hanseatic League and the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order. In 1430 he tried to reinstate the old council in Wismar . He represented the city since 1417 at numerous Hanseatic days . In 1436 he died in Lübeck and was buried in the Petrikirche .

Konrad Brekewoldt was the father of the second rector of the Rostock University Werner Brekewoldt and the grandfather of the Lübeck councilor Konrad Brekewoldt . His business as a dressmaker passed to his sons when he was elected councilor. He was a member of the patrician Lübeck Circle Society and is said to have reached a great age. According to Fehling, the old Lübeck Council Line speaks of "almost 100 years"; However, the date of death given by Fehling December 19, 1447 and the activities and honors given in the council line for activities and honors after 1436 cannot be kept due to the not preserved but documented tombstone in the Petrikirche with the year of death 1436 handed down there. He lived in the house at Breite Strasse 95 . In 1399 he acquired lands in the villages of Lüchow and Labenz in Lauenburg. In Lübeck citizens' wills he is listed several times as a documentary witness and guardian .

literature

  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925, No. 441
  • Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600 , Stuttgart 1999, pp. 975-976 (LÜPE * 8)

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 Brekewoldt, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brekewold, cord
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH 1436
Place of death Lübeck