Ditmar Koel (Mayor)

Statue of Koel at the Kersten Miles Bridge over Helgoländer Allee in Hamburg

Ditmar Koel , also Ditmar Kohl (* around 1500; † September 22, 1563 in Hamburg ), also written as Dithmar Koel in some old documents , was a captain, successful pirate hunter and mayor of Hamburg.

Life

In 1525 he commanded one of four two-masters in the Admiral Simon Parseval's fleet . On October 7th of the year there was a sea battle with the pirate Claus Kniphoff's fleet on the Osterems off Greetsiel , and Koel succeeded in boarding the pirate's ship - the Gallion - after 8 hours of fighting. He brought the pirates and a lot of booty to Hamburg and was elected councilor in 1527.

Koel was a supporter of the Reformation and played a major role in its implementation in the Hanseatic city.

In 1536 he was admiral of a fleet and was able to prevent Count Palatine Friedrich von Hadeln from crossing the Lower Elbe to a raid on Holstein . From 1542 to 1548 Koel was bailiff of the two-city office of Bergedorf ., Where he initiated the drafting of a new church ordinance. In 1548 he was elected mayor of Hamburg and in 1559 he headed the defense of the Elbe island Moorburg against the attacks of Duke Otto von Lüneburg-Harburg .

In 1562 he traveled with two of his fellow councilors on a diplomatic mission to Copenhagen to end a dispute with the Danish king. He was successful and returned to Hamburg, where he died on September 22, 1563.

Former window picture in the Ratsweinkeller of the Hamburg City Hall

Bear Koel's name

Streets

Ditmar-Koel-Strasse in the Portuguese quarter of the southern part of Hamburg's Neustadt district near the harbor is named after Ditmar Koel .
Another Ditmar-Koel-Strasse exists in Cuxhaven .

Ships

In 1935 a pilot station ship built at the Stülcken shipyard in Hamburg, sank off Swinoujscie on February 12, 1945 after being hit by a mine.

In 1955 a freight steamer from the Hanseatic shipping company Emil Offen , built as CAPE WRATH in Canada in 1946 and demolished in Hong Kong in 1963 .

1958 a pilot station ship built at the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg , which was renamed Commodore Rolin in 1963 and demolished in Elsfleth in 2006 .

literature

Bardo Metzger: Ditmar Koel and the introduction of the Reformation in Bergedorf. In: Olaf Matthes (ed.): Church between village and city. History of St. Petri and Pauli zu Hamburg-Bergedorf. Convent Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-934613-46-2 .
Werner von Melle: Kohl, Ditmar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 422 f.
Friedrich Georg Buek : The Hamburg upper elders, their civil activity and their families , page 70, Perthes & Besser 1857 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (editor): Hamburgisches Biografie-Personenlexikon, Volume 2, Page 225, Wallstein Verlag, 2003, ISBN 9783767213661
^ Harald Richert: Castle captains and officials in Bergedorf ; in Lichtwark booklet No. 59. Verlag HB-Werbung, Hamburg-Bergedorf, 1994, ISSN 1862-3549

Web links

Commons : Ditmar Koel - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: How the pirate Claus Kniphoff was overwhelmed and judged by the Hamburgers - sources and full texts

Wikisource: Ditmar Kohl - sources and full texts

personal data
SURNAME	Koel, Ditmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kohl, Ditmar; Koel, Dithmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mayor of Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1500
DATE OF DEATH	September 22, 1563
Place of death	Hamburg

[HBL-1] Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (editor): Hamburgisches Biografie-Personenlexikon, Volume 2, Page 225, Wallstein Verlag, 2003, ISBN 9783767213661

[2] Harald Richert: Castle captains and officials in Bergedorf ; in Lichtwark booklet No. 59. Verlag HB-Werbung, Hamburg-Bergedorf, 1994, ISSN 1862-3549