Elbe blockade

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The Elbe blockade was a sea ​​blockade of the Elbe and Weser estuaries by the British government before the start of the Third Coalition War .

Period

Some sources report a continuous blockade between 1803 and 1806, in fact there was an interruption of five months. The first blockade lasted from July 1803 to October 1805, the second from April to October 1806.

history

On May 18, 1803, the British government ignored the Peace of Amiens , which had concluded the Second Coalition War with France in March 1802 , and declared war on the French. In order to weaken the French economy, the Elbe blockade began two months later.

Following the confiscation of 3,000 tons of coal, imports of British grain and coal were exempt from the blockade.

Effects

The blockade of the Elbe against the port of Hamburg , which is also important for Denmark, affected trade and thus agriculture and seafarers exporting to Great Britain in Schleswig-Holstein, which was then Danish . The port in Lübeck and the city of Tönning , whose port became Hamburg's gateway to maritime trade and was even called by ships from South America, benefited from the closure of the port of Hamburg. In Tönning the population tripled in a very short time.

After the Elbe blockade, Napoleon ordered the economic blockade over the British Isles in Berlin on November 21, 1806 , which remained in force until 1814. The continental blockade was supposed to bring Great Britain to its knees by means of economic warfare.

See also

literature

  • Explanations of the fleet law
  • Hamburg as it was and is. Or the origin, development, existence, description of place, government, customs, customs and peculiarities of Hamburg and its area . PFL Hoffmannsche Buchhandlung, Hamburg 1827, p. 45 ( google.de - author possibly Carl Nicolaus Röding (1780–1839)).
  • Astrid Petersson: Sugar boilers and sugar trade in Hamburg from 1814 to 1834. Development and structure of two important Hamburg economic branches of the pre-industrial age . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-07265-9 , pp. 57 ( google.de - Diss. Univ. Hamb. 1996).
  • Robert Hoeniger : The continental barrier and its effects on Germany . L. Simion, Berlin 1905.
  • Georg Reimer : The story of the Aukrugs - parish Innien . 1st edition. Printed by Friedrich Petersen, Husum 1913
  • The development of traffic in Schleswig-Holstein 1750–1918 . Volume 26: Studies on Economic and Social History SH. 1996, Wachholtz-Verlag.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lübeck . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 10, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 947.
  2. ^ Astrid Petersson: Sugar boilers and sugar trade in Hamburg from 1814 to 1834 . P. 57
  3. ^ Karl Heinrich Altstaedt: Schauerlüd, Schutenschupser and Kaitorten: Arbeiter im Hamburger Hafen , 2011, p. 24 books.google
  4. ↑ Hamburg . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894–1896, 8th volume, p. 707.
  5. ^ Hermann Kellenbenz : Phases of the Hanseatic-North European South American trade . In: Hansische Geschichtsblätter Vol. 78 (1960), pp. 87-120. Annette Christine Vogt: A Hamburg contribution to the development of world trade in the 19th century , 2003, p. 46 books.google
  6. ↑ kohlus.de history of the German-Danish War 1848-1850