Lambert Becker

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Lambert Becker (* around 1491 in Lübeck ; † August 10, 1562 ibid) was a German legal scholar , council secretary and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Lambert Becker studied law at the University of Rostock from 1510 . As a master's degree he was initially a clerk in Lübeck. In this capacity, he and Harmen Israhel traveled to Stockholm as early as 1527 on behalf of the city to demand the repayment of the enormous sum of money owed by Gustav Vasa Lübeck and the redemption of the privileges promised in return for support in the conquest of Sweden. From 1529 to 1552 he was council secretary in Lübeck and as such rose to protonotary in 1544. In 1532 he belonged to an embassy with the mayors Joachim Gercken and Gottschalck Lunte , which inCopenhagen negotiated about the exclusion of the Dutch from the Baltic Sea trade ( local drivers ). In the unrest during the Reformation and the count's feud , Becker was one of Jürgen Wullenwever's sharpest opponents . The report that he wrote about this period is reproduced in Waitz. In 1552 he was elected councilor of Lübeck. He fell ill in 1558 so that he could no longer leave his house and died in 1562. He remained on the council until his death, but was no longer included in the council since 1560. He was buried in the Petrikirche .

He was married to a daughter of the Lübeck citizen Georg von Lenten, a niece of the Lübeck councilor Gerhard von Lenten .

literature

  • Johann Rudolph Becker : Complicated history of the free city of Lübeck, Volume 2, Georg Christian Green, Lübeck 1782–1805, pp. 15, 17
  • Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries until the constitutional amendment of 1851, in: ZVLGA Volume 29 (1938), p. 137.
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925, No. 662
  • Georg Waitz : Lübeck under Jürgen Wullenwever and European politics. 3 volumes, Berlin 1855–56.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Waitz: Lübeck under Jürgen Wullenwever 1st volume, pp. 330-340
  3. ^ Friedrich Bruns †: The Lübeck Council. Composition, addition and management, from the beginning to the 19th century. In: ZVLGA , Volume 32 (1951), pp. 1–69, p. 60 (Chapter 9: Conclusion of Council Membership )
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Lambert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becker, Lambertus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar, council secretary and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH around 1491
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1562
Place of death Lübeck