Klaus Scheld

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Klaus Scheld († 1402 in Hamburg ) was one of the leaders of the Likedeeler , an association of former vitality brothers.

Together with Klaus Störtebeker , Gödeke Michels and Magister Wigbold , also leaders of the Likedeelers, he made the North and Baltic Seas unsafe at the end of the 14th century. They owned fast ships, which in a flash attacked and boarded the ships of the Hanseatic League . Scheld was mentioned for the first time in an English lawsuit from 1405, which refers to a total of 36 "cases of damage" by pirates between the years 1393 and 1405.

Most of these attacks occurred before the Vitalien Brothers were driven from Gotland in 1398 and dealt with the losses suffered in raids by pirates on English ships or ships with English goods in the Baltic Sea and off the coasts of Denmark and Norway. Overall, Klaus Störtebeker is mentioned in the lawsuit five times together with Gödeke Michels and Klaus Scheld and nine times only with Michels alone as the leader of the pirate trips.

A list of damages by the English names the following pirates:

1394: Heinrich von Pommern, Gödeke Michels, Hans Haufoote, Peter Haufoote, Claus Boniface, Rainbek a. a. from Wismar and Rostock ;
1394: Gödeke Michels, Klaus Scheld, Störtebeker a. a .;
1395: Hans von Wethemonkule, Klaus Scheld, Gödeke Michels and one named Störtebeker .

Scheld was probably executed together with his comrades on Grasbrook in Hamburg in 1402 at the same time or shortly after Störtebeker. However, there is no historically clear evidence of this.

literature

  • Matthias Blazek: Piracy, Murder and Atonement - A 700-year history of the death penalty in Hamburg 1292-1949. ibidem, Stuttgart 2012 ISBN 978-3-8382-0457-4
  • Hanseatic history sheets . Edited by Hansischen Geschichtsverein, 3rd volume, Böhlau Verlag, Lübeck 1888, p. 39, 48 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "The events of 1400/1401/1402 in the sources", in: Ehbrecht, Wilfried: Störtebeker - 600 years after his death, Porta-Alba-Verlag, Trier 2005, ISBN 3-933701-14-7 , p. 37 -38.
  2. ^ Archives for regional and folklore of Lower Saxony, publications, series B, 3, vol. 1, ed. by Kurt Brüning, Verlag Gerhard Stalling AG., Oldenburg (Oldb) 1942, p. 135.
personal data
SURNAME Scheld, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheld, Clays
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Leader of the Likedeelers
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1402
Place of death Hamburg