Heinrich Sudermann served as the first Syndic of this organization.
Heinrich Sudermann served as the first Syndic of this organization. This organization built a trading center on the Thames called the Steelyard, employees of which included George Giese. This group's trading post at Toruń was founded by the Teutonic Knights, and members of the three Drittels in this polity elected aldermen to lead its independent trading outposts, called kontors. Waldemar VI of Denmark signed the Treaty of Stralsund with this polity to give it a monopoly over Scandinavian trade, and the capital of this polity was located in Wendish, the first of its five quarters; that capital was Lübeck. For 10 points, name this Northern German medieval trade union.
Heinrich Sudermann served as the first Syndic of this organization.
Hanseatic League [accept Hansa; or Dudesche Hanse; or Hansa Teutonica; or Liga Hanseatica]