Hans Perckmeister (c. 1436 - end of May 1512), who had himself portrayed in 1496 at the age of sixty, was the son of the apothecary Conrad Perckmeister. His sister Barbara was married to Hans Schmidmayer, whose coat of arms is located in the Schmidmayer window in St. Lorenz Church. From his father, who died in 1468, Hans Perckmeister inherited the Prediger-Apotheke (Prediger Pharmacy) in the so-called Platenhaus (formerly Rathausplatz 11, pre-war numbering). In 1474, he had to answer to the city council because he had not yet sworn the apothecary's oath. He was married to Ursula, daughter of the patrician Sebald Groland, and lived in the property at Theresienstraße 6 (pre-war numbering), which had formerly been owned by his father and before that by his grandfather Burkard Friederecker. From 1470 until his death in 1512, Hans Perckmeister was a member of the Greater Council. According to the fountain register of 1479, the printer Conrad Zeninger was renting from him at the time. On April 1, 1479, the council decided to ask Perckmeister and Dr. Hermann Schedel to visit the lepers during Holy Week. They were allowed to stay in the Weinstadel building for three days during Holy Week, where they were also provided with food. Later, Hans Perckmeister worked as a pharmacist in the hospital pharmacy, established in 1498. The following council decree is dated October 16, 1501: "The bureaucrat, as apothecary at the hospital, has been granted a plot in the Zwinger near the stables for one small herb, for planting herbs for the apothecary at the hospital, which was revoked by a council resolution. Mr. Anthony Tucher." Thus, Perckmeister was permitted to plant a garden for herbs needed for the hospital pharmacy in the Zwinger near the city moat, near St. Catherine's Monastery.