Ludeke von Thünen
Ludeke von Thünen (* before 1432 in Lübeck ; † 1501 ibid) was mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .
Life
Ludeke von Thünen was the son of Lübeck councilor and mountain driver Ditmar von Thünen . He was elected to the city council in 1472 and represented it from 1475 as Lübeck mayor in many commercial missions; In 1476 he negotiated because of the abolition of the Lüneburg customs and in a dispute between the Hanseatic cities on the Zuiderzee and the Hansekontor in Bergen (Norway) . In the same year he was Lübeck's representative at the Hanseatic Congress in Bremen. In 1477 he negotiated with King Christian I of Denmark in Copenhagen about the tariff on beer, which had been increased by the Danes. In 1478 von Thünen was the representative of the city of Lübeck at the wedding of Prince Johann of Denmark in Copenhagen and on this occasion again negotiated questions from the Bergen office. In 1482 he tried to settle disputes between the Mecklenburg ducal house and the city of Danzig in Wismar . The Hanseatic Congress in Lübeck in 1487 commissioned him again to settle the disputes between the Dutch cities and the German merchants in Bergen, but also to settle the dispute between Rostock and Danzig. At the City Council of the Wendish Quarter of the Hanseatic League in Lübeck in 1490, he was commissioned to settle the dispute between the Old Council and the New Council in Rostock .
Ludeke von Thünen had been a member of the patrician circle society since 1460 and married to Catharina Bere, a daughter of the Lübeck councilor Ludeke Bere , son of the mayor Johann Bere . His church chair in Lübeck's Marienkirche has not been preserved, but a carved back part of such a chair with his coat of arms was brought from the Marienkirche to the collection of the (today's) St. Anne's Museum in 1892 . Both son Ludolf von Thünen († 1509) studied at the University of Rostock . He became canon in Lübeck and canon of the monastery in Bardowiek ; he was buried in Lübeck Cathedral under a preserved figure grave plate.
literature
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. No. 553. Lübeck 1925, ISBN 3-7950-0500-0
- Uwe Albrecht , Jörg Rosenfeld, Christiane Saumweber: Corpus of medieval wood sculpture and panel painting in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume I: Hanseatic City of Lübeck, St. Annen Museum . Ludwig, Kiel 2005, p. 384 ISBN 3933598753
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fehling: Lübeck Council Line. No. 542.
- ↑ Entry 1483 in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ↑ Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100–1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 676/677 ISBN 3-7995-5940-X
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thünen, Ludeke from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tuna from, tuna van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Merchant and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1501 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |