Rostock inheritance contract

The Rostock Inheritance Treaty describes several agreements between the Hanseatic city of Rostock and the dukes of Mecklenburg as sovereigns.

• The first Rostock inheritance contract was signed in 1573 between the city of Rostock and Johann Albrecht I of Mecklenburg . With him the city recognized the sovereign sovereignty.

• The Second Rostock Inheritance Treaty of 1788, concluded with Duke Friedrich Franz I, resolved further disagreements between the parties that had arisen under his predecessor Duke Friedrich and established special rights for the city until 1918.

A distinction must be made between the contracts of inheritance and the Land constitutional hereditary comparison (LGGEV) of 1755, which Duke Christian Ludwig concluded with the estates dominated by the knighthood , including the city of Rostock. This led to a permanent participation of the united estates in the government of the country and from then on blocked a constitutional development in the modern sense.