Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf (businessman, 1648)

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Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf, portrayed by Balthasar Denner
Epitaph in St. Marien

Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf (born November 21, 1648 in Schwartau , † December 27, 1723 in Lübeck ) was a long-distance trade merchant and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Peter Hinrich was the son of a clerk of the Lübeck prince-bishop Johann , who maintained a farmyard on the Kaltenhof near today's Bad Schwartau five kilometers north of Lübeck on the Trave . After a commercial apprenticeship and subsequent activity in the shop of Matthäus Rodde , after his death in 1678 he went into business for himself as a merchant in Lübeck with good success in the wine trade . Business with Portugal via Lisbon was a focus of his trade. In 1703 he was elected to the city council. From 1704 to 1706 he was the builder and in 1715 was appointed mayor of the city by the council.

Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf was married twice. He was buried in the side chapel of the Marienkirche in Lübeck, which he acquired in 1714 for 1,300 marks . Its Rococo- style epitaph with Latin inscription was preserved on the south wall of the south porch despite the destruction of the church during the air raid on Palm Sunday 1942 . The Carl Tesdorpf company is now Germany's oldest wine trading company.

literature

  • Paul Christian Nicolaus Lembcke : Biography of the former mayor of Lübeck Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf, born 1648 died 1723 , Lübeck 1847
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925, no.831
  • Ortwin Pelc : Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf. In: Lübeck résumés. Neumünster 1993, pp. 395-396.
  • Schaumann, Gustav; Bruns, Friedrich (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck , ed. from the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906, p. 164 ff .; P. 377 ff.

Web links

Commons : Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Text with explanation and translation by: Adolf Clasen : Unknown treasures - Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck 2002, p. 51. ISBN 3795004756
  2. ↑ Jürgen Röder: This is the next technology push in: Handelsblatt, accessed on August 16, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Tesdorpf, Peter Hinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German long-distance trader and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1648
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwartau
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1723
Place of death Lübeck