Johan Bear (Admiral)

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Johan Bär (born June 29, 1620 in Narva , † May 24, 1688 in Malmö ) was a Swedish admiral during the Scandinavian War .

family

Johan Bär was born in 1620 as the son of Johan Bär Sr. He comes from the old aristocratic family Bär, who have lived in Courland since 1122 . The family coat of arms of the Bär family shows a bear on a blue shield. He holds a plumb line in his raised right front paw.

In 1649 Johan Bär was raised to the nobility.

He was married to Anna Kristina Slatte (* 1646, † March 8, 1701 in Malmö). His son Johan Bär was a lieutenant colonel and commander of Älvsborg fortress . With his death in 1742, the noble family of Bär died out.

Military career

Johan Bär began his military career as a midshipman in 1642 and was made a lieutenant in the Admiralty in 1645 . In 1648/49 he led military operations in the province of Södermanland .

As captain , he commanded a ship in Carl Gustaf Wrangel's fleet during the war against Denmark in 1653 . In 1659 he was appointed lieutenant admiral. Five years later he was given the task of inspecting and monitoring the fleet in the Swedish province of Finland and Åland .

Johan Bär was appointed to the Admiralty Council in 1674, and the following year he was appointed Vice Admiral . In the Northern War he was given command of two sea squadrons of the Swedish fleet. In 1676 he was appointed admiral and commander of three squadrons in the fleet of Admirals Lorentz Creutz .

He took part in the naval battles of Bornholm and Öland as commander of the orlog ship Nyckeln (86 cannons).

Due to alleged inactivity during the Battle of Öland, Bär was defeated by King Charles XI of Sweden on June 13, 1677 . discharged from the Navy. However, he was acquitted of the allegations against him by the Navy Commission Council. However, Bär was no longer accepted into the Navy and spent the remaining years of his life on a farm near Malmö.

literature

  • Jan Glete: Swedish Naval Administration, 1521-1721. Brill, Leiden 2010, ISBN 978-90-04-17916-5 .
  • Carl Ballhausen: The First Anglo-Dutch Sea War 1652–1654 and the Swedish-Dutch Sea War 1658–1659. The Hague 1923.
  • Axel Zettersten: Svenska flottans historia åren 1635–1680. Norrtelje tidning 1903.
  • Friedrich Ferdinand Carlson: History of Sweden: Up to the Reichstag 1680. Volume 4, Gotha 1855.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Carl Ballhausen p. 721.
  2. ↑ Axel Zettersten p. 597.
  3. ↑ Jan Glete p. 302
  4. ↑ Friedrich Ferdinand Carlson p. 636ff
personal data
SURNAME Bear, Johan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bähr, Johan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish admiral
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1620
PLACE OF BIRTH Narva
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1688
Place of death Malmo