Nikolaus Kröpelin

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Nikolaus Kröpelin , also Kropelin (* in Lübeck ; † 1413 ibid) was councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

The merchant Nikolaus Kröpelin was the son of the Lübeck citizen of the same name and elderly man of the Schonen driver Nikolaus Kröpelin († 1380). He was elected to the Lübeck Council in 1406. During the expulsion of the old council in the course of the civil unrest in 1408, he stayed in the city and did not join the old council's action against the new council . On the other hand, he also refused to take part in the necessary supplementary elections to the council. His brother Hinrich Kröpelin was elected to the New Council in 1410.

He was married to a daughter of the Lübeck councilor Heyno von Hachede and lived in the house at Königstrasse 37 . He is listed several times as a documentary witness in Lübeck citizens' wills .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Fehling, Council Line No. 421
  2. Gunnar Meyer: “possessing citizens” and “miserable sicknesses”: Lübeck's society in the mirror of their wills 1400–1449 (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, published by the archive of the Hanseatic city, series B, volume 48) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2010 ISBN 978-3-7950-0490-3