Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson

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Model for an Engelbrektsson statue in Örebro (by Carl Gustaf Qvarnström )
Engelbrekt Engelbrektssons coat of arms

Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson (* probably 1390s in Englikobenning, Västmanland ; † May 4, 1436 murdered on an island in Hjälmaren ) was a Swedish freedom fighter and leader of the Engelbrekt uprising against Erich von Pommern, named after him, of 1434 .

origin

Engelbrekt had German roots, his family, like many miners in the mining regions of Dalarna, immigrated from Germany to Sweden and had lived there since around 1360. The family belonged to the upper class of Swedish miners. His great-grandfather Engelbrekt had settled in Västerås . His grandfather Engliko probably founded what is now Ängelsberg in the municipality of Fagersta , then Englikobenning , near Norberg . His father Engelbrekt was definitely living in Norberg from 1367. He was probably also the first of his line to rise to the nobility.

Life

In the spring of 1434 Engelbrekt took the lead in an uprising ( Engelbrekt uprising ) in the province of Dalarna against King Erik VII. The mining region suffered heavily from Erik's war against Holstein and the Hanseatic League , as he interrupted and closed the export of mineral resources rising taxes. The uprising quickly spread to all of Sweden and Engelbrekt received support from the clergy and the nobility. In 1435 he controlled almost all of Sweden and was elected imperial governor. In the fall of Erik approved the Imperial Council in comparison to Halmstad control rights to the king.

On May 4, 1436 he was murdered at Göksholm Castle by a group of Swedish knights around Magnus Bengtsson . Soon afterwards the uprising also dried up. His grave in Örebro became a place of pilgrimage for the rural population of central Sweden .

Literary appreciation

Engelbrekt's fate has inspired a number of writers to be literary. August Theodor Blanche wrote the play Engelbrekt och hans Dalkarlar in 1846 and August Strindberg wrote a historical drama in 1901, Carl Georg Starbäck wrote a historical novel in 1868/1869 and Natanael Berg wrote the opera Engelbrekt , which premiered in Stockholm in 1929. In the second volume of his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance , Peter Weiss describes the course of Engelbrekt's uprising in 1978, the work of Bertolt Brecht and his working group on an Engelbrekt drama and the political development from the Hitler-Stalin Pact to the German attack on the Soviet Union .

Name sponsorships

The ship Engelbrekt , originally christened Mora , got its new name in 1903 after the historical figure.

literature

Web links

Commons : Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Gustav Landgren: digging out, scraping out of a mass of rubble. On the relationship between city and memory in the work of Peter Weiss. Transcript, Bielefeld 2016, p. 338.