Mattheus Rodde (politician, 1681)
Mattheus Rodde (* 1681 in Lübeck ; † September 11, 1761 ibid) was a German politician and mayor of Lübeck .
Life
Rodde, who came from the old Lübeck merchant family Rodde , undertook extensive trade trips as a young merchant from 1697, which took him to Stockholm and Holland , among other places . On his return to Lübeck he joined Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf's business , for which he traveled to Lisbon and London in 1722 .
In 1735 he was elected to the council , in 1757 he became one of the mayors of Lübeck. During his term of office as councilor, the self-completion of the Lübeck council, forced by the citizens, fell in 1739 . In 1745 he, together with Heinrich Balemann , Heinrich Rust and Hermann Woldt, had the big bell of the Holy Spirit Hospital cast over by the council founder Lorenz Strahlborn and his son Dietrich.
Rodde was married to a daughter of Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf. His son Mattheus Rodde (1724–1783) also became councilor in Lübeck; his daughter Magdalena Margaretha married the Lübeck councilor Nikolaus Barward Mentze . One of his grandchildren, Mattheus Rodde (1754–1825), was Dorothea Schlözer's husband and also mayor. Johann Daniel Overbeck wrote his funeral speech in 1761.
literature
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, no.869
- Lieselotte J. Eberhard: Dorothea Schlözer . Lübeck 1995, ISBN 3-7950-3111-7
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Inscription by Adolf Clasen : Misunderstood treasures: Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German , Lübeck 2003, pp. 184/185 ISBN 3-7950-0475-6
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rodde, Mattheus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician and mayor of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1681 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 1761 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |