Heinrich Sudermann

Heinrich Sudermann was an official of the Hanseatic League from Cologne.

Heinrich was a member of distinguished old patrician family of Cologne. When the post of Syndic was created in 1556, Sudermann was elected as a permanent official and “legal counselor of the Hanseatic League”, and worked to protect and extend the diplomatic agreements of the Hansa member towns.

For 35 years Sudermann took part in all Hanseatic Dietes and negotiations, and led numerous diplomatic missions in the Netherlands and in England, as well as at the Imperial Diet and the Emperor’s Court.