Mattheus Kossen

Mattheus Kossen († January 7, 1621 in Lübeck ) was a German merchant and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

During the Reiser riots in Lübeck, the merchant Mattheus Kossen belonged to the citizens' committee of 50 citizens formed in 1599 under the leadership of the lawyer Heinrich Reiser . In 1601 he was elected to the Lübeck Council . As envoy of the city, he was with the mayor Jakob Bording and the councilor Hermann von Dorne in 1604 with King Christian IV of Denmark in Copenhagen . In 1616 he was appointed one of the city's mayors in the Lübeck council. In the council he held the office of treasurer from 1618 to 1620. He was buried in the Marienkirche in Lübeck . His portrait in the mayor's gallery in Lübeck's town hall reminds of him.

literature

• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925 No. 723 (from Fehling's death year 1621 and not identified as mayor)
• Friedrich Bruns , Hugo Rahtgens, Lutz Wilde : The architectural and art monuments of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Volume I, Part 2: City Hall and public buildings of the city. Max Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1974, p. 258, ISBN 3-7950-0034-3 (on his portrait wrong year of death 1620)