Alexander von Soltwedel

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Alexander von Soltwedel (* probably before 1240; † approx. 1291) was councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .

Soltwedel's life data are unclear and not proven. He probably belonged to a family from Salzwedel and became a councilor in Lübeck. It is clear, however, that he must have been elected shortly before 1256 and that he died around 1291. Fehling states that the term of office was 1250–1291. According to documentary records, he did not appear in the council despite his long term of office. In 1257 he represented the city against claims of the Margraves Johannes and Otto von Brandenburg , to whom Lübeck had been given as a fief by King Wilhelm .

It gained its importance today through the Lübeck chroniclers. Hermann Korner , but also Heinrich Rehbein , made him the author of a ruse by which Lübeck liberated itself from the rule of the Danes on May 1, 1226, and the leader of the Lübeckers in the battle of Bornhöved (1227) . The Lübeck state archivist Carl Friedrich Wehrmann referred this in the ADB with reference to Wilhelm Brehmer in the area of ​​the legend:

“The Danish occupation withdrew from Lübeck after King Waldemar's troops, led by Count Albert von Orlamünde, were defeated by the allied princes near Mölln in 1225, and there was no talk of Alexander S. at all at that time. The news of Detmar’s that he led a fleet from Lübeck against Stralsund in 1249 is also untrustworthy. "

Its importance for the city is based on one of the Lübschen legends compiled by Ernst Deecke in the mid-19th century.

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SURNAME Soltwedel, Alexander von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH before 1240
DATE OF DEATH around 1291