Where does the name Victual Brothers come from? The German name is Vitalienbrüder which, according to some sources, relates to the word Viktualien, i.e. victuals, hence the English translation.…
The north German city of Lübeck was particularly important, because it was here that the greatest efforts were made to organize the Hanseatic League. What’s more, many of the so-called Hanseatic…
“God’s friend and all the world’s foe”, was the supposed motto of the so-called Victual Brothers. One of these brothers, Klaus Störtebeker, is now best known as a pirate, but who were Störtebeker…
Between 1389 and 1466 the term “Victual Brothers” arises in Low German sources for maritime combatants. Research carried out to date has generally been focused on the more or less stable formation of a group that was supposed to have stemmed from the troops recruited by the Dukes of Mecklenburg for their war against Denmark between 1389 and 1395. However, available sources do not fully support this interpretation. Hence, this project represents a fundamental reexamination of the “Victual…
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Comment by Kati
Es geht immer nur ums Geld bei den Linksliberalen. Ob beim Klima, bei der Versöhnung der Völker, bei den Flüchtlingen, bei Europa. Geld, Geld, Geld. Das ist aus meiner Sicht das Problem....