Rostock Inheritance Agreement

The Rostock Erbvertrag referred several agreements of the Hanseatic city of Rostock with the dukes of Mecklenburg as sovereign.

  • The first agreement was concluded to Rostock Mecklenburg in 1573 between the city of Rostock and Johann Albrecht I.. With him the city recognized the sovereign sovereignty.
  • The Second Rostock contract of inheritance from 1788, complete with Duke Friedrich Franz I eliminated renewed disagreement between the parties that had emerged under his predecessor, Duke Frederick, and wrote down specific rights of the city until 1918.

Be distinguished from contracts of inheritance is the country's Constitutional hereditary settlement ( LGGEV ) of 1755, the Duke Christian Ludwig concluded by dominated by the knighthood Estates, including the city of Rostock. This led to a permanent participation of the estates in the government of the country and from then blocked a constitutional development in the modern sense.

  • Rostock's history
  • Contract
  • 1573
  • 1788
Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Christian Ludwig II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
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