Petrus Hagen

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Petrus Hagen (* 1554 in Lippstadt ; † October 30, 1614 in Lübeck ) was a German lawyer, lawyer and syndic of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .

Life

Peter Hagen was born the son of Hinrich Hagen and his wife Margareta Brinckhoffs. He attended Latin schools in Braunschweig and Hanover , studied since 1575 and received his master's degree from the University of Rostock in 1576, and was then an informator for the children of Heinrich X. von Saldern (1532–1588) in Henneckenrode . In 1590 he received his doctorate in law from the University of Marburg .

In the well-known dispute between the von Saldern family and the Prince-Bishop of Halberstadt and Duke Heinrich Julius of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , Hagen represented the interests of the von Saldern family as a lawyer . Obviously a bit too aggressive for the sovereign's taste. He was charged by the state tax office of Duke Heinrich Julius von Wolfenbüttel for his "abuse" and sentenced on May 17, 1598 to life imprisonment, which he had to serve in Wolfenbüttel prison. In June 1604, however, Hagen was able to flee. In 1605 he took over as a lawyer representing the city of Braunschweig before the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer . At Easter 1609 he was appointed from his office in Hildesheim (the Hildesheim monastery was outside the jurisdiction of Heinrich Julius) to the syndic of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck . Shortly before his death in autumn 1614, he had already asked the Lübeck council to be released from office as Syndicus at Easter 1615, because his health no longer allowed effective work and he had time for the proceedings on his own behalf because of his imprisonment in Wolfenbüttel before the Reich Chamber Court need.

He received from his wife Elisabeth Schmidt, daughter of Asmus (Erasmus) Smet († 1581) and granddaughter of Hildesheim mayor Joachim Brandis the Elder. Ä. (1516–1597), with whom he had been married since 1588, set a wooden epitaph in the Marienkirche in Lübeck in 1618 , which made reference to his tragic life story in the picture program and burned in the air raid on Lübeck in 1942. On this he was figuratively shown kneeling.

swell

  • Folder Hagen ; Hildesheim City Archives (inventory 856, No. 50/268/8, box 18)

literature

  • Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from earlier times , Lübeck 1859, p. 39 ff.
  • Anton Fahne : Die Westphalen in Lübeck , Heberle, 1855, p. 66 ff. Digitized
  • Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck syndicists and council secretaries until the constitutional amendment of 1851 , in: ZVLGA Volume 29 (1938), p. 104/105

Web links

  • Christine Wulf: Painting [lost]. Portrait of Peter Hagen , formerly at the Andreanum grammar school ( online ). In: Deutsche Insschriften Online 58, Stadt Hildesheim, No. 623 †, at www.inschriften.net

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Doctorate in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ See A. Fahne: Die Westphalen in Lübeck , Heberle, 1855.
  4. ↑ Gustav Schaumann, Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck . Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906, p. 348.
  5. ↑ Figure in BuK
personal data
SURNAME Hagen, Petrus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, lawyer and syndic of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 1554
PLACE OF BIRTH Lippstadt
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1614
Place of death Lübeck