List of the Hanseatic ambassadors in Russia

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This is a list of the Hanseatic envoys in Russia . It lists envoys and authorized ministers or ministerial resident of the three free Hanseatic cities of Bremen , Hamburg and Lübeck in Russia (from 1761). Hansische and later Hanseatic special envoy in the Russian Empire there were already in the 14th century, the Kreuzküssung Nieburs (1392). Well-known and well documented is, for example, the legation trip of Lübeck's mayor Conrad Garmers with councilor Heinrich Kerkring and council secretary Johan Brambach to visit Tsar Boris Godunow in 1603. The tsarist empire was represented in the Hanseatic cities with a permanent embassy in Hamburg since 1709 .

Years Surname Life dates Remarks portrait
1761-1786 Johann Nicolaus Willebrandt * 1730; † 1803 from 1786 Bergedorf official administrator ( bailiff )
1787-1816 Johann Georg Wiggers * 1749; † 1820 until 1787 professor at the University of Kiel ; formally in office until 1816 (practically only until 1810)
1816-1818 Winkler
1819-1822 Karl Sieveking * 1787; † 1847 from 1831 Hamburg envoy to the German Confederation in Frankfurt am Main
Karl Sieveking
1822-1832 Carl Godeffroy * 1787; † 1848 from 1840 Hamburg envoy to the Prussian court in Berlin
1828-1835 Hermann Schröder * 1783; † 1865 consul
1835-1843 Constantin Thal † 1843 consul
Peter Christoph Friedrich Grevsmühl / Grevesmühl (1806–1888), Hanseatic consul in Moscow from 1853–1868

In addition to the Hanseatic embassy or residency in St. Petersburg, there were also temporarily Hanseatic consulates in Arkhangelsk , Kronstadt , Moscow , Odessa , Reval ( Tallinn ), Riga and Vyborg .

literature

  • Stephan Macropus: Stephani Macropi [i] Andreaemontani Panegyricus In Reditum Magnificorum ... Virorum, Dn. Conradi Germeri, Coss. Dn. Henrici Kerckringi Senatoris Et Patricii. Dn. M. Joannis Brambachi [i] Secretarii Lubecensis: Nomine Totius Famosissimae Et celeberrimae Societatis Hanseaticae, una cum Stralesundis, ad magnum Muscoviae Ducem, Legatorum. Lubecae: Albrecht 1603
Digitized , Hamburg University Library
  • Otto Blümcke: Reports and files of the Hanseatic legation to Moscow 1603 , in: Hansische Geschistorquellen , Volume 7, Verlag des Waisenhauses, Halle a. S. 1894 digitized version (PDF; 30.0 MB)
  • Iwan A. Iwanov: A forgotten source on the history of the Hanseatic embassy to Moscow from 1603. The travel description of Zacharias Meyer in the Lübeck Rehbein Chronicle. In: Zeitschrift für Lübeckische Geschichte , Volume 93 (2013), pp. 67–120

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Johann Martin Lappenberg : Journal of the Association for Hamburg History , Volume 3, Association for Hamburg History , Hamburg 1851, p. 522 ff.
  2. ↑ a b Ulrich Simon: Altes Senatsarchiv (ASA) Externa, Ruthenica (Russia) , Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Lübeck 2007
  3. ^ Entry in the Erik Amburger database