Johann Brokes

Seal of Johann Brokes around 1576

Johann Brokes , also Brockes (* 1513 in Plön ; † March 29, 1585 in Lübeck ), was admiral and later mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

biography

Brokes was the son of the mayor of Plön of the same name. He was elected to the city council in 1564. After the loss of the Danish-Luebian fleet off Gotland in 1566, he succeeded the drowned Admiral Bartholomeus Tinnappel as commander in chief of the decimated fleet. The then largest warship, the Adler von Lübeck , was put into service under him in 1567, but in the Three Crowns War until the Peace of Stettin it was no longer used as originally intended, as there were no other ships and crews due to the losses suffered.

Brokes was combing lord from 1573 to 1578 and in 1575/76 on a diplomatic mission at the Danish court with King Frederick II in Copenhagen to clarify questions about the return of the Baltic island of Bornholm, which had been pledged to Lübeck since 1525 .

Grave slab (2018)

Brokes was married to Katharina, geb. Köhnen and lived in the house at Mengstrasse 6 . His mark adorns the Lübeck Reichstaler worth 32 Schillings . He had an epitaph in the Marienkirche in Lübeck . His preserved grave slab in St. Marien, now erected in the south aisle, shows the married couple kneeling in shell niches and the family coat of arms. His sons Heinrich and Otto Brokes also became mayors of the city.

Web links

Commons : Johann Brokes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lückeck families from earlier times , Dittmer, 1859, p. 19 ( digitized version )
• Gustav Schaumann , Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906 ( digitized version ).
• Hartwig Beseler (ed.): Art topography Schleswig-Holstein . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1974, p. 63
• Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line from the beginnings of the city to the present. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1925, (Reprint also unchanged: ibid. 1978, ISBN 3-7950-0500-0 ), ( Publications on the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck , 7, 1), No. 680.
• Carl Julius Milde , CF Wehrmann: Seal of the Middle Ages from the archives of the city of Lübeck . Lübeck 1862, p. 47 ff.