Nikolaus von der Lippe

Nikolaus (Klaus) von der Lippe († May 18, 1433 in Stralsund ) was Mayor of Stralsund from 1414 until his death in 1433 .

Act

He became councilor in 1399 and provisional officer of the St. Jürgen am Strande monastery in 1411 . In 1414 he was elected mayor of the Hanseatic city. As such, in January 1428 he had the brewers ' uprising , whose economic situation was difficult due to the disturbed export of beer and malt to the north due to the Sundzoll War of the Wendish Hanseatic cities against the Danish King Erik VII (Erich von Pomerania) , and six of their leaders heads.

When a Danish fleet appeared off Stralsund the following year, on May 5, 1429, plundered and devastated the port and destroyed the Sundian ships lying there, he took advantage of the arrival of six armed merchant ships from Lübeck and Wismar on the following two days to move the Stralsund councilors and residents to a counterattack. When the Danes sailed back north from the Greifswalder Bodden through the Strelasund on May 8, 1429 , they surprised from the Lippe near the island of Strale (also Strela) and inflicted a devastating defeat on them in the sea battle at Dänholm . The small island was then supposedly named Dänholm as a reminder . In December 1430, Nikolaus von der Lippe concluded a separate peace with King Erich for Stralsund , five years before he concluded the peace of Vordingborg (1435) with the other Hanseatic cities of the Wendish quarter .

Honors

In 1942, the German Navy named the clearance boat companion Von der Lippe after him; it sank after a bomb hit on June 15, 1944 near Boulogne in the English Channel .

literature

Friedrich Wilhelm Barthold : History of Rügen and Pomerania, fourth part, first volume. Friedrich Perthes, Hamburg 1843, pp. 86–89 ( digitized version )
Friedrich Wilhelm Barthold : History of the German Sea Power, pp. 281-470 (pp. 438-439), In: Friedrich von Raumer (ed.): Historisches Taschenbuch, third part, first year. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1850 ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Barthold: History of Rügen and Pomerania , Vol. IV, Th. 1, p. 83.
^ Only Rostock had already made peace with Erich in August 1430.

personal data
SURNAME	Lippe, Nikolaus von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lippe, Klaus von der; Lippe, Nicolaus von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mayor of Stralsund (1414–1433)
DATE OF BIRTH	14th Century
DATE OF DEATH	May 18, 1433
Place of death	Stralsund

[1] Barthold: History of Rügen and Pomerania , Vol. IV, Th. 1, p. 83.

[2] Only Rostock had already made peace with Erich in August 1430.