Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm

Reichsadmiral Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm (painting by Jacob Heinrich Elbfas)

Baron Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm (March 4, 1574 , † March 17, 1650 ) was a Swedish field marshal , politician and imperial admiral .

Life

He was an illegitimate son of Charles IX. and his mistress Karin Nilsdotter and thus the half-brother of King Gustav II Adolf .

Gyllenhielm gained his first military experience from 1601 in the war against Poland , although he fell into Polish captivity for some time . He expanded the Swedish fleet for Gustav II Adolf and organized the king's landings in Riga (1621) and Pomerania (1630) as well as the blockade of Danzig (from 1626). Gyllenhielm created an Admiralty College (Amiralitetskollegium) in 1634 , but the actual command of the fleet was held by the Admirals Clas Larsson Fleming (until 1644) and Erik Eriksson Ryning (nephew of the former Imperial Admiral Axel Ryning ). With Dutch help, the Swedish fleet defeated Denmark in the Torstensson War in 1644/45 .

During Gyllenhielm's tenure as Reichsadmiral there was also a sea ​​defeat against Poland in 1627 and in 1628 the loss of the flagship Vasa without a fight and glory .

literature

• Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-K . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 426-427 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
• Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 10 : Gossler-Harris . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1909, Sp. 759-760 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
• Christian Blangstrup: Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm . In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 10 : Gradischa – Hasselgren . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1920, p. 471-472 (Danish, runeberg.org ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Field Marshal Carl Carlsson Gyllenhjelm, royal bastard, 1st friar af Bergqvara.