Klaus Störtebeker

Klaus Störtebeker

male, deceased (1401)
from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, execution, executed by decapitation, hanseaticleague, privateer, baltic…Hanseatic
Klaus Störtebeker was a leader and the best known representative of a companionship of privateers known as the Victual Brothers ("Vitalienbrüder" in...
Tiedemann Giese

Tiedemann Giese

male, deceased (1550)
St. Paul, Ordenstaat, Chelmno, heliocentrism, Duchy of Prussia, From Gdansk…Hanseatic, hanseaticleague
Tiedemann Giese was a member of the patrician Giese family of Danzig (Gdańsk). The brother of the Hanseatic League merchant Georg Giese and r...
Samuel Hartlib

Samuel Hartlib

male, deceased (1662)
Polish Briton, inventor, Letter writer, Alumni of the University of Cambridge, British, agriculturalist…hanseaticleague, Hanseatic
Samuel Hartlieb (ca. 1600 - 1662), was a polymath - meaning an expert in many subjects. He was interested in science, medicine, agriculture,...
Simon Of Utrecht

Simon Of Utrecht

male, deceased (1437)
hanseaticleague, flanders, frisian, emden, lubeck, flagship
Simon of Utrecht was a warship captain of the Hanseatic League during the Middle Ages. He was probably born in Flanders, but immigrated to Hamburg,...

Henning Podebusk

male
hanseaticleague, de facto, Danish, politician, statesman, Drost
Henning Podebusk ("Putbus"; in today's genealogies, regularly prepared in a way that he is shown in German, known also as Herr "Henning II zu...
Andreas Gryphius

Andreas Gryphius

male, deceased (1664)
Herodes, hanseaticleague, German native of Silesia, Dei Vindicis Impetus et Herodis Interitus, Buch von der deutschen Poeterey, Tetrastichen des Pibrac
Andreas Gryphius was a German lyric poet and dramatist. Gryphius was born as Andreas Greif in Głogów (Großglogau) in Silesia, where his father was...
Wolter von Plettenberg

Wolter von Plettenberg

male, deceased (1535)
Welver, archbishopric of Riga, protestant reformation, Livonian Order, Livonia, Grand Duchy of Moscow…Hanseatic, hanseaticleague
Wolter von Plettenberg (or Walter von Plettenberg, was the Master of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword from 1494–1535 and one of the greatest le...

Albrecht Giese IV

male, deceased (1580)
danzig, Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, wittenberg, patrician…hanseaticleague
Albrecht Giese IV was a councilman and diplomat of the city of Danzig (Gdańsk), Poland. Giese was born in Danzig, a member of the Hanseatic L...
Johann Smidt

Johann Smidt

male, deceased (1857)
From Bremen, University of Jena, jena, Theologian, hanseaticleague, theology
Johann Smidt was an important Bremen politician, theologian, and founder of Bremerhaven. Smidt studied theology in Jena, and was one of the...
Konrad von Erlichshausen

Konrad von Erlichshausen

male, deceased (1449)
teutonic knight, Orzysz, Szestno, mausoleum, swabia, Mrągowo…Hanseatic, hanseaticleague
Konrad von Erlichshausen was the 30th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, serving from 1441-49. Konrad came from Ellrichshausen in Swabia, now...