Convoy captain

Convoykapitän was the name given to the captains of the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg , Bremen and Lübeck who, in the early modern period, provided escort for the shipowner's merchant fleet with their own warships . Convoy protection was given on all routes on which enough ships came together to form a convoy. These were preferably the sea routes to Spain, Portugal, England, Russia and the Iceland and Greenland drivers, especially those from Hamburg, in the northern Arctic Ocean . The convoy captain had the position and importance of an admiral in the convoy . The ship's crews including all officers, sailors and other crew members as well as the marines were subordinate to him.

Hamburg convoy captains

• Martin Holste, 1663
• Mathias Dreyer, 1664
• Berend Jacobsen Karpfanger , 1674
• Caspar Tamm , 1685 and Martin Tamm, 1705 (father and son)
• Michel Schröder, 1688 and Georg Schröder, 1711 (father and son)
• Claus Marinsen, 1690
• Alert Hildebrandtsen Groth, 1692
• Willem Antonissen, 1700
• Peter Schröder, 1702
• Joachim Wilhelm Brockes, 1746 to 1747

See also

• Convoy shipping
• Wapen of Hamburg , Leopoldus Primus and Admiralty of Hamburg
• Hamburg Admiralty

literature

• Ernst Baasch : Hamburg's convoy shipping and convoy being. A contribution to the history of shipping and shipping facilities in the 17th and 18th centuries. Friederichsen, Hamburg 1896, ( digitized ).
• Hildegard von Marchtaler : The families of the Hamburg convoy captains. A sociological study. In: Journal for Family Studies in Lower Saxony. Vol. 27, No. 1, 1952, ISSN  0172-1852 , pp. 13-26 and No. 2, pp. 36-42, (also special edition).