Friedrich Knebel

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Friedrich Knebel (* in Wesel ; † November 27, 1574 in Lübeck ) was councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck and admiral of the Lübeck fleet in the three-crown war .

biography

Cannon of the sunken flagship Engel in the Royal Danish Armory Museum

Friedrich Knebel was elected to the City Council of Lübeck in 1559. In 1563 he took part in the meeting in Segeberg , at which the alliance with the Danish King Frederick II against Sweden was decided. In the war years 1564 and 1565 he was the commanding admiral of the Lübeck fleet, which at the beginning of the war consisted of six orlog ships and was supplemented by a number of auxiliary ships, which, united with the Danish fleet under Admiral Herluf Trolle , in numerous naval battles and battles in the Baltic Sea the Swedes fought. His sub-admiral was the councilor Johann Kampferbeck . With his flagship Der Engel , launched in 1563 , Knebel took the Swedish flagship Makeloes in the First Naval Battle off Gotland on May 31, 1564 . Swedish admiral Jakob Bagge and his deputy Arved Trolle were captured. This sea battle made Knebel a naval hero in Lübeck and supported the approval of further funds for the construction of new warships such as the new admiral ship Morian and the Adler von Lübeck by the council and the citizens. In Lübeck's town hall , a historic battle painting by the painter Hans Bohrdt from 1911 commemorates the naval battle in 1564 off Gotland. The angel was lost in an explosion in 1565 in preparation for a renewed battle with the Swedes due to inattention of his own team in handling powder.

In 1568 Knebel was one of Lübeck's ambassadors at the unsuccessful peace negotiations in Roskilde . He also took part in the negotiations on the Peace of Stettin in 1570 led by the mayors of Lübeck, Hieronymus Lüneburg and Christoph Tode .

He was married to a daughter of the Lübeck councilor and dressmaker Joachim Grammendorp .

literature

  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line . Lübeck 1925, No. 672
  • Antjekathrin Graßmann (Ed.): Lübeckische Geschichte , 1989, ISBN 3-7950-3203-2
  • Hermann Kirchhoff: Sea power in the Baltic Sea II. Volume: Your influence on the history of the Baltic countries in the 19th century. In addition to an appendix on the prehistory of the Baltic Sea. Kiel 1908, pp. 286–289 digitized

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Lübeck Council Line No. 676: "1565 and 1566 Unteradmiral in the fleet."
  2. ↑ Also called Mars ; Knebels report in the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck hl-live
  3. ↑ Lübeck Council Line No. 630
personal data
SURNAME Knebel, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knevel, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lübeck businessman, councilor and admiral
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesel
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1574
Place of death Lübeck