Bruno von Warendorp

Bruno of Warendorp, also Brun Warendorp (* in Lübeck, † August 21 1369 in Skåne ) was alderman and mayor of Lübeck.

He was the son of Gottschalk Warendorps. Warendorp was since 1366 Alderman, 1367 Mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck and in 1368 commander of the troops Cologne confederation against King Valdemar IV of Denmark. He died after the successful siege of Luebeck for Helsingborg before the surrender of the fortress. The taking of Helsingborg laid the foundation for the Peace of Stralsund in the following year.

Warendorp and his father were owners and residents of the famous much later by the novel by Thomas Mann " Buddenbrooks house ". In the portal of the house is a plaque for Mayor Warendorp.

In the so-called letter chapel at St. Mary's Church is located since the rebuilding after the damage caused by the air raid on Lübeck on 29 March 1942, the grave slab of Lübeck Mayor with a Latin inscription. Prior to his grave was located next to the mayor chair the choir. Opposite hung until the 18th century his iron helmet. King Ludwig I of Bavaria had its name to attach to a memory table of Valhalla.