Peter Kock (businessman)

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Peter Kock (* in Lübeck ; † summer 1526 at sea) was a German secretary of the Hansekontor in Bergen (Norway) .

Life

Peter Kock was a nephew of Lübeck's mountain driver and mayor Joachim Gercken . From Easter 1509 he studied at the University of Rostock , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1511 and his master's degree in the winter semester of 1513/14 .

Peter Kock succeeded the secretary Magister Nicolaus Repenhagen , who worked in Bergen until 1520 . As secretary of the Hansekontor on Bryggen , he was first recorded in a Norwegian document in 1521 as "Mester Per". 1523 on the occasion of an authentication together with the elders of the office at King Christian II of Denmark and Norway. Shortly before traveling home to Lübeck, on June 9, 1526, he appeared as a witness when a trading company was sold in Bergen. On the journey home, his ship was taken in 1526 by skipper Clement , a privateer in the service of the now deposed and exiled King Christian II. No crew member of the angry ship was spared. According to his uncle, the mayor of Lübeck, Joachim Gercken, at the Hanseatic Day in Bremen in 1530 , all the people on the ship were tied back to back in twos and "so dogs were thrown overboard", that is, drowned . Kock's direct successor as secretary in Bergen is not known by name; the next secretary known by name was Peter Gercken , a younger brother of Lübeck's mayor Joachim Gercken in 1534 .

literature

  • Friedrich Bruns : The Secretaries of the German Office in Bergen , in: Det Hanseatiske Museums Skriften , Volume 13, Bergen 1939, p. 44

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry 1509 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Entry 1511 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Entry 1513/14 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ↑ Another dispute between mountain drivers and privateers is recorded for the year 1526: On November 3, 1526, Marten Pechlin , another privateer in the service of King Christian II, fell under circumstances that could not be exactly reconstructed off the Norwegian south coast in a skirmish with three Lubricians Mountain drivers.
  5. ^ Friedrich Bruns: The Lübeck mountain drivers and their chronology , Berlin 1900, p. 301
personal data
SURNAME Kock, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German secretary of the Hansekontor in Bergen (Norway)
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH 1526
Place of death at sea