Tidemann Lemberg

Tidemann Lemberg (* around 1310 in Dortmund ; † 1386 in Cologne ) was a merchant and patrician who came from the Free Imperial City and Hanseatic City of Dortmund. He was born in Lücklemberg , a southern part of Dortmund in the Hombruch district. The place name is derived from the two farmers Lück and Lemberg.

Lviv's father Dietrich was involved in the wool trade with England. Tidemann Lemberg traded wool and tin in London as part of the Hanseatic League's branch in London . He became administrator of the royal customs seal and from 1347 onwards, in return for a loan of 3000 pounds, temporarily controlled all the income of the tin mines in Cornwall and thus the entire English tin trade and exports, which were very important at the time. His sister was married to Dietrich Overberg, mayor of Dortmund.

As a financier of the English King Edward III. From 1340 he was at the head of a creditors' consortium of 13 Westphalian merchants who controlled the entire English wool export as security against a loan of 18,000 pounds. Later he was Edward's chief negotiator in order to redeem the great royal crown , which was in pledge with the Archbishop of Trier . In 1344 the consortium of creditors dissolved. In 1354 Tidemann Lemberg moved from London to Cologne , where he spent the rest of his life.

Tidemann Lemberg operated Europe-wide: he granted loans to the Pope in Avignon , he supplied the English fortress of Bordeaux with food. Lemberg was on the one hand unscrupulous and addicted to profit, but on the other hand, like the Cologne patrician families Scherffgin, Lyskirchen and Overstolz, made large donations to the Carthusian order . Their church in Cologne was consecrated to Saint Barbara , the patron saint of miners. Tidemann Lemberg died childless in Cologne in 1387. He was buried in a tin sarcophagus.

literature

• Gerstein, Barbara, “Lemberg, Tidemann” in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 14 (1985), p. 183 f. [Online version]; URL: http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd122034333.html
• Philippe Dollinger : Die Hanse , p. 225 ff ISBN 3-520-37102-2
• Barbara Gerstein:  Lemberg, Tidemann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 183 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Luise von Winterfeld : History of the free imperial and Hanseatic city of Dortmund
• Luise von Winterfeld: Tidemann Lemberg , Friesen-Verlag, Bremen, 1927
• Dieter Zimmerling: The Hanse - trading power under the sign of the cog , p. 103 ff ISBN 3-453-00770-0