Hanseaten (class)
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The Hanseaten is a collective term for the hierarchy group consisting of elite individuals and families of prestigious rank who constituted the ruling class of the free imperial city of Hamburg, conjo
Reliefs of coats of arms of the three Hanseatic (sister) cities
Johann Hinrich Gossler of the Hanseatic Berenberg-Gossler-Seyler banking dynasty, who married Elisabeth Berenberg and became owner of Berenberg Bank
First Mayor Johann Heinrich Burchard
Christian Adolph Overbeck, mayor of the Free Imperial and Hanseatic City of Lübeck, son of Eleonora Maria Jauch (drawing by Johann Friedrich Overbeck)
Elisabeth Berenberg
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Elisabeth Berenberg was a German heiress from Hamburg, merchant banker and a member of the Berenberg family. She was the last male line member of the Flemish-origined Hanseatic Berenberg banking famil
Her father, Johann Berenberg (1718–1772)
Her great-grandfather, Hamburg merchant Johann Friedrich Tönnies (1662–1736)
Her great-great-great-grandfather, Hamburg Senator Rudolf Amsinck (1577–1636)