Otto Voge was a 15th-century
Pomerania
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n politician and patrician. He was mayor of the
Hanseatic City
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of
Stralsund
Stralsund (; Swedish: ''Strålsund''), officially the Hanseatic City of Stralsund (German: ''Hansestadt Stralsund''), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin, Neub ...
for 27 years. Voge was born as the son of mayor Nikolaus Voge and belongs to an old Stralsundian family, that has been in city council since 1313.
Otto Voge was member of the City council since 1432. In 1443 he was elected mayor.
In 1475 he died in old age in his house in Stralsund.
References
External links
Biographie von Johann Albert Dinnies in der Digitalen Bibliothek Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Original im Stadtarchiv Stralsund, Hs 35
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1419 births
1475 deaths
People from Stralsund
Hanseatic League