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Klaus (* around 1370; "† 20 October 1401 in Hamburg) was leader of the Likedeeler ("equal divisors ") and the probably most well-known pirate, who came out from the numbers of the They successfully fought long time against "the hanseatischen pepper bags ". Confederates and likewise notorious Likedeeler were the captains Michels, Hennig yielding man and Magister Wigbold.
Some accept, it are from the area of Verden, others mean, it originates from Wismar. In the Liber proscriptorum, the "fortress book" of the city Wismar, an incident is held in the year 1380, according to which two Wismarer citizens were pointed from the city, because they had added another breaks different in a fight. The concerning of the argument is called "nicolao more stortebeker". It speaks much for the fact that this Nikolaus entered later than Klaus history.
Into public consciousness stepped only after driving the out of the island Gotland as a captain of the Likedeeler, after these had made themselves in the middle of the 1390er independent as Freibeuter years. The originally supported king Albrecht of Sweden in the fight against the Danish queen Margarethe I. and operated in addition also piracy in north and Baltic Sea. Soon assaults followed the encroachment on the ships of the Danes and who stood on Danish side, after other ships of the Hanse. For this had the would cape-hereditarycall received. So that equipped they could sell the captured goods in Wismar freely on the market.
Starting from 1396 had also support in Marienhafe, East Frisia, where he a daughter of the friesischen chieftain Keno ten Broke to have married was. Diplomatic pressure on the part of the Hanseatic cities led to the loss of this operational base. On 15 August 1400 recorded duke Albrecht of Holland a contract closed with the According to this it took up 114 and placed it under its protection. Eight main people are in particular called, among them a Johan Stortebeker. It is extremely improbable that a further leader with the name pushed himself into the foreground. Therefore must be accepted, Klaus the not like Michels to Norway fled, but further close of the North Sea was.
Allegedly the earned itself the name (from Niederdeut of "fall the cup ") because of its drinking firmness as pointed name. So it is to set the legend after a 4-Liter-Humpen off (a inch-high cup) beer without in a course to have empty-drunk.
is the superior Hamburg Kriegskoggen with its ships always the high sea escapes to be. Only with the help of a traitor, the unnoticed liquid lead into the control system and thus ship poured made or (alternatively) after destruction of the main mast by projectiles of the multicolored cow was it finally possible not maneuverable to place and imprisoned take the Freibeuter to the fight.
On 22 April 1401 it was placed by a hamburgischen fleet under Simon of Utrecht before Helgoland, taken in the sea-battle after embittered fight imprisoned and brought on the multicolored cow to Hamburg.
Klaus was beheaded on 20 October 1401 with approximately 30 companions, among them its attendant Humbert rough heart, on the Grasbrook with Hamburg by an executioner named master rose field.
After the legend is to have been permitted by the mayor of the Hanseatic city Kersten Miles that all those men were allowed to survive, those it after its beheading to still pass was able. At eleven men the cutting back walked past, before the Henker threw the arranging block to it before the feet (as per some sources a leg to it placed). After the fall of the Piraten the mayor broke however his given promise, and all 73 pirates were beheaded.
The heads were aufgespiesst for deterrence along the Elbe. Inheritances as its famous drinking cup - from which it had its name - with the large one Hamburg fire 1842 were destroyed.
The legend wants to know that, after the death sentence was announced it offered a golden chain to the senate for lives and liberty, so long that it was enough around the whole city - which the senate rejected however with But since one could not find the sayful gold treasure of the Likedeeler, the ship was sold to a ship carpenter. When this set the saw, in order to divide the ship, he met something hard: In the masts hidden the treasure, one was also gold, the other one filled with silver, and third with copper; and it let Hamburg pc. Katharinenkirche make from the gold a crown for the tower that.
Alleged used often by Daniel Hopfer created and haven-guesses/advises places in reality Kunz of the roses, which Schalknarren and advisor emperors Maximilians, who lived 100 years after
The 1878 heads issued of workers on the Grasbrook found and long time as so-called heads "in the museum for Hamburgi history could not be attributed so far free of doubts to Klaus An DNA analysis at Institut for human biology of the University of Hamburg is to give on it more near information shortly.
In Ralswiek on on a nature stage the festivals are organized annually. The Stralsunder brewery is thereby a sponsor and drives out also different beers with the name Also in the ostfriesischen Marienhafe every three years (last 2005) on the market place a flat-German Freilichtspiel is specified.
is in cellar-reads out the lock God gift established to have, at that time in the possession of the family of its Vitalienbruders Marquard of Preen.
In the Stubbenkammer on Klaus is to have hidden after the legend an immeasurable treasure.
Before the city hall of the city Verden annually the citizens a symbolic "fight for herrings and bread" supply themselves. Cause is the traditional donation".
The topic around Klaus was filmed already several times:
At the edge serves linking, which positively appoints itself to its division principle as identification figure v.a. in that. KaffeeEine criticism to it practices the Blog "Nichtidenti"
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