Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson (* probably 1390er in Englikobenning, Västmanland, † May 4, 1436 killed on an island in Hjalmaren ) was a Swedish freedom fighter and leader of the eponymous Engelbrektsaufstandes 1434 against Eric of Pomerania.
Origin
Engelbrektsson had German roots, his family, like many miners migrated to the mining regions of Dalarna from Germany to Sweden and since about 1360 settled there. The family belonged to the upper class of the Swedish miners. His great-grandfather Engelbrekt had settled in Västerås. His grandfather founded probably Engliko the current Ängelsberg in the community Fagersta, then Englikobenning, near Norberg. His father Engelbrekt was finally living with security from 1367 in Norberg. He was probably the first of his race, who has risen to nobility.
Life
In the spring of 1434 Engelbrektsson sat down at the head of a revolt ( Engelbrekt uprising ) in the province of Dalarna against King Erik VII had the mining region under massive war Eriks against Holstein and Hamburg to suffer because he interrupted the export of natural resources and to rising taxes caused. Quick attacked the riot over the whole of Sweden and Engelbrechtsson received support from clergy and nobility. 1435, he controlled almost the whole of Sweden and was elected to the Empire Captain. In the fall of Erik endorsed the Imperial Council in comparison to Halmstad rights of control over the king.
On May 4, 1436 was assassinated at Castle Göksholm by a group of Swedish knights Magnus Bengtsson. Soon after, fading away the insurgency. His grave in Örebro was a place of pilgrimage for the Central Swedish rural population.
Literary appreciation
Engelbrekts fate has inspired a number of writers to literary representation. So wrote August Strindberg 1901, a historical drama about him. And in the second volume of his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance parallel describes Peter Weiss 1978 the course of Engelbrekts uprising, the work of Bertolt Brecht and his group at a Engelbrekt drama and the political development of the Hitler -Stalin Pact, the German invasion of the Soviet Union.