Rolf A. Heyno (Heijno)
CIVILITY FROM SEA TO SEA CIVITATUM MARITIMARUM
Excerpts
Considering the historical facts, claims and arguments which are introduced in this book and which have been totally ignored, distorted and/or omitted by many Hansa era historians, the readers will have a completely new outlook of the Germanic merchants’ efforts to create a civilized trade in Europe.
Regardless of all the contradictions and misinformation and many derogatory statements to besmirch the Germanic merchants as was done, for example, by a fiction writer by the name of Thomas Mann in his book “The Buddenbrooks”.
We have to admit that the Germanic merchants were able to create lasting civil organization whose many laws, rules and regulations are still used widely in the whole world.
According to my understanding the best example of their activities is the trade of the Baltic Sea, including the area we know today as the Ex-Soviet Union with which the Germanic merchants traded long before Rurik and his men invaded the said area.
To achieve their goals the Germanic merchants had worked for several millenniums, had gone through many difficult times and sever hardships. Had survived innumerable, greedy and ruthless rulers’ efforts to rob them from their rightful rewards and were finally disrupted brutally on November 6, 1806 in the massacre of Luebeck by Jean Batiste Bernadotte, Napoleon’s Marshal and later the King of Sweden, one of the biggest war criminals of all times, for according to historical books even Hitler gave Jews a chance to leave Germany before the holocaust (See also the movie The Voyage of the Damned).
The best description of this massacre you will find in the book “Chronicles of Three Free Cities” by Wilson King, one time Consul of the United States at Bremen. Published by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. London and E. P. Dutton & Co. New York 1914.
Peoples’ greatness can be measured only by how powerful are their opponents because powerful people don’t have time for “insignificants”.
Rolf Alfons Woldemar Heyno (Heijno)
The Massacre of Lubeck on November 6, 1806, according to the eyewitnesses’ accounts, lasted three days and three nights. The brutality of Marshal Jean Batiste Bernadotte in the destruction of Heijno (Hainault-Haino) merchant Patricians, also known as Merchant Princes, was an indescribable horror which didn’t make any sense. In my opinion, it was a mind boggling hate of revolutionaries against all civilized people, as was proven in French Revolution, and later, in the 20th-century Russia by Lenin and his thugs.
The only strikingly similar massacre of whole ruling family may be read in history of the Hasmonean dynasty when Herod the Great murdered all members of the Hasmonean dynasty to become King of the Jews.
I have often wondered whether there was any kind of connection between these two crimes against humanity because according to the researchers, Bernadotte’s genealogy is very nebulous. For example, his original name was Deu Pouey which his ancestors changed to Bernadotte.
Speaking about Thomas Mann’s book “The Buddenbrooks”, we have to remember that he, himself, always insisted that all his books are fictional. As his wife Katia Mann states in her book, “Unwritten Memories”, where she also says that “she didn’t see anything Hanseatic in her husband and that he always got in trouble with his friends, of whom he wrote derogatory stories by using fictional names.”
Here I want to mention that in the Finnish History, the Supreme Commander of Swedish forces in Finland was Baron H. M. Buddenbrock, who was executed for treason in 1742, together with Marshal Lewenhaupt.
Is that the case of which Thomas Mann got the name Buddenbrooks?
I found the most informative book about Thomas Mann in his wife’s book “Unwritten Memories” by Katia Mann, who was a very sophisticated, and honest lady, the daughter of Alfred Israel Pringsheim, a highly respected Jewish mathematician, and University Professor, who was very much against his daughter’s choice for a husband.
In her book she also mentions that Thomas Mann wrote his book “Buddenbrooks” in 1901, and received his Nobel Prize in 1929 for his book “Magic Mountain”, and not for the “Buddenbrooks”. Yet for some reason there are people who promote the “Buddenbrooks” and don’t say a word about the “Magic Mountain”.
Considering these facts, I find that to make a “Shrine” out of a fiction (“Buddenbrooks house in Luebeck”) is a travesty of history, and an insult to all Germanic merchants, who lost many lives to create peaceful trade, and to bring civilization to many nations. So isn’t this a smear propaganda against honest merchants?
Just a hypothetical question:
If after The Second World War a country would have elected one of the Hitler’s scum such as Eichman, Borman, Himler etc., as a king; how would the world receive their descendants?
The Germanic Merchants And Die Hanse
Click on link above to download manuscript!
EXCERPTS FROM MY MANUSCRIPT
One of the most frequently used emblem of the merchant Princes was the six-petal flower which later became known as the Hanse rose. You may even see in historical books many Prelates having six-petal flower embroidered on their on their chasubles.
FORWARD
For over 12 years my wife and I have made an extensive research of the Germanic merchants trading activities which culminated into the well known commercial enterprise called “Die Hanse”.
To condense the enormous amount of information of several millenniums into a “nutshell” has also taken its own efforts and time. Therefore a great deal of important information, which could have shed more light, due to the fabricated statements of the so called “historians”, had to be omitted.
For example; in the introduction of my manuscript I state that “According to my understanding the best example of their activities is the trade of the Baltic Sea including the area we know today as the Ex-Soviet Union, with which the Germanic merchants traded long before Rurik and his men invaded the area”.
We have been made to believe, by many “historians”, that Rurik and his men opened up the trade with the “heathens” of the above stated area and that the trade began to flourish after Christianity introduced the middle-eastern ways and attitudes to the northern “heathens”; completely ignoring the fact that around 500 B.C.E. (Before Christian Era) Heroditus the Greek visited the people of the north-eastern Europe from whom the Greeks imported wheat and whom Heroditus called “Scythians”.
Many “historians” have also omitted the fact that the whole area which we know as the Ex-Soviet Union was originally populated by Indo-Germanic and Finno-Ugrian people.
An example of this fact is the Bastarni people, who lived between the rivers Dniepr and Bug around the time as Herodotus visited the area.
The Slavic people started to move into said area from Balkan at the end of the 5th century A.D. after the Huns’ invasion. First they moved into Ukraine and from there into the heartland of Russia. The name Ukraine comes most likely from Slavic name “u krajina” meaning “at frontier, which in my opinion, proves that at the time “Russia” was still unknown to the Slavs.
The Huns created great devastation wherever they went and therefore many Germanic tribes fled from their place of habitation. This in turn created great hardships in many parts of central and northern Europe as the lands couldn’t sustain large amounts of migrants. This, in my opinion, was also the time when Gotland experienced its over-population.
While most of the northern Europe and Fenno-Scandia experienced many wars and armed conflicts, Gotland, which is an island located about 50 nautical miles east of Swedish coast in the Baltic Sea, was saved from most of the hardships. Therefore its history as a “sea-merchant economy” which extended to Mediterranean and the Middle East and dates back to the Bronze Age (circa 1500-500 B.C.) is, in my opinion, a very good indicator of the trading activities of the Germanic merchants which must have encompassed also the entire Baltic Sea area, the Gulf of Finland and “Russia”. I also believe that they must have traded at the time with the well known merchants of the Komi-Finns, who were a part of the state of Perma, as mentioned in my manuscript.
All this clearly proves that the Indo-European merchants traded throughout the then known world long before our Christian Era (C.E.) as stated in the cuneiform tablets.
We have to remember that originally in Europe there were only three kinds of people namely the Indo-Germanics, the Finno-Ugrians and the Aryans or Carpato-Danubians, or by what so-ever name you prefer to call them.
Though all the wars and turbulences in Europe have destroyed a great deal of trading evidences, and also for some unexplainable reasons, some of the historically important buildings have been destroyed. But in Gotland some of the evidences have been preserved. Such are for example the so called skeppsattningar or ship-graves. It has been said that 350 such ship like burial sites have survived.
Regardless of all the mistreatments, if not outright vandalism, there is still enough evidence of the Germanic merchants’ efforts to bring civility and good relations among the people.
Such evidences are the six-petal flower designs, which you can see on the stone-foundations of many medieval buildings, which also my wife witnessed in Tallinn (Raeval) when she visited Estonia.
Another good example of the co-operation between the Germanic and Finnic merchants is the Amber trade.
At that time Amber was obtainable only from the south-eastern shores of the Baltic Sea which were populated by tribes of the Finno-Ugrians, the Liivs (Lithuanians), the Laetts (Latvians) and Viro (Estonians).
It has also been said that the Romans imported Amber around 14 A.D. as I have mentioned in my manuscript.
Rolf A. Heyno (Heijno)
Considering the historical facts, claims and arguments which are introduced in this book and which have been totally ignored, distorted and/or omitted by many Hansa era historians, the readers will have a completely new outlook of the Germanic merchants’ efforts to create a civilized trade in Europe.
Regardless of all the contradictions and misinformation and many derogatory statements to besmirch the Germanic merchants as was done, for example, by a fiction writer by the name of Thomas Mann in his book “The Buddenbrooks”.
We have to admit that the Germanic merchants were able to create lasting civil organization whose many laws, rules and regulations are still used widely in the whole world.
According to my understanding the best example of their activities is the trade of the Baltic Sea, including the area we know today as the Ex-Soviet Union with which the Germanic merchants traded long before Rurik and his men invaded the said area.
To achieve their goals the Germanic merchants had worked for several millenniums, had gone through many difficult times and sever hardships. Had survived innumerable, greedy and ruthless rulers’ efforts to rob them from their rightful rewards and were finally disrupted brutally on November 6, 1806 in the massacre of Luebeck by Jean Batiste Bernadotte, Napoleon’s Marshal and later the King of Sweden, one of the biggest war criminals of all times, for according to historical books even Hitler gave Jews a chance to leave Germany before the holocaust (See also the movie The Voyage of the Damned).
The best description of this massacre you will find in the book “Chronicles of Three Free Cities” by Wilson King, one time Consul of the United States at Bremen. Published by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. London and E. P. Dutton & Co. New York 1914.
Peoples’ greatness can be measured only by how powerful are their opponents because powerful people don’t have time for “insignificants”.
Rolf Alfons Woldemar Heyno (Heijno)
The Massacre of Lubeck on November 6, 1806, according to the eyewitnesses’ accounts, lasted three days and three nights. The brutality of Marshal Jean Batiste Bernadotte in the destruction of Heijno (Hainault-Haino) merchant Patricians, also known as Merchant Princes, was an indescribable horror which didn’t make any sense. In my opinion, it was a mind boggling hate of revolutionaries against all civilized people, as was proven in French Revolution, and later, in the 20th-century Russia by Lenin and his thugs.
The only strikingly similar massacre of whole ruling family may be read in history of the Hasmonean dynasty when Herod the Great murdered all members of the Hasmonean dynasty to become King of the Jews.
I have often wondered whether there was any kind of connection between these two crimes against humanity because according to the researchers, Bernadotte’s genealogy is very nebulous. For example, his original name was Deu Pouey which his ancestors changed to Bernadotte.
Speaking about Thomas Mann’s book “The Buddenbrooks”, we have to remember that he, himself, always insisted that all his books are fictional. As his wife Katia Mann states in her book, “Unwritten Memories”, where she also says that “she didn’t see anything Hanseatic in her husband and that he always got in trouble with his friends, of whom he wrote derogatory stories by using fictional names.”
Here I want to mention that in the Finnish History, the Supreme Commander of Swedish forces in Finland was Baron H. M. Buddenbrock, who was executed for treason in 1742, together with Marshal Lewenhaupt.
Is that the case of which Thomas Mann got the name Buddenbrooks?
I found the most informative book about Thomas Mann in his wife’s book “Unwritten Memories” by Katia Mann, who was a very sophisticated, and honest lady, the daughter of Alfred Israel Pringsheim, a highly respected Jewish mathematician, and University Professor, who was very much against his daughter’s choice for a husband.
In her book she also mentions that Thomas Mann wrote his book “Buddenbrooks” in 1901, and received his Nobel Prize in 1929 for his book “Magic Mountain”, and not for the “Buddenbrooks”. Yet for some reason there are people who promote the “Buddenbrooks” and don’t say a word about the “Magic Mountain”.
Considering these facts, I find that to make a “Shrine” out of a fiction (“Buddenbrooks house in Luebeck”) is a travesty of history, and an insult to all Germanic merchants, who lost many lives to create peaceful trade, and to bring civilization to many nations. So isn’t this a smear propaganda against honest merchants?
Just a hypothetical question:
If after The Second World War a country would have elected one of the Hitler’s scum such as Eichman, Borman, Himler etc., as a king; how would the world receive their descendants?
Click on link above to download manuscript!
EXCERPTS FROM MY MANUSCRIPT
One of the most frequently used emblem of the merchant Princes was the six-petal flower which later became known as the Hanse rose. You may even see in historical books many Prelates having six-petal flower embroidered on their on their chasubles.
 This iron door was found in a tunnel in Viborg, leading to the castle of Viborg, which was built in 1293 A.D. At that time the Germanic Hanse merchants were guaranteed a safe passage to Novgorod. Note: The six petal rose.
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 Enlargement of the scarf on Gustav Johann Heyno’s on Gustav Johann Heyno’s Note: The six-petal flower design.
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FORWARD
For over 12 years my wife and I have made an extensive research of the Germanic merchants trading activities which culminated into the well known commercial enterprise called “Die Hanse”.
To condense the enormous amount of information of several millenniums into a “nutshell” has also taken its own efforts and time. Therefore a great deal of important information, which could have shed more light, due to the fabricated statements of the so called “historians”, had to be omitted.
For example; in the introduction of my manuscript I state that “According to my understanding the best example of their activities is the trade of the Baltic Sea including the area we know today as the Ex-Soviet Union, with which the Germanic merchants traded long before Rurik and his men invaded the area”.
We have been made to believe, by many “historians”, that Rurik and his men opened up the trade with the “heathens” of the above stated area and that the trade began to flourish after Christianity introduced the middle-eastern ways and attitudes to the northern “heathens”; completely ignoring the fact that around 500 B.C.E. (Before Christian Era) Heroditus the Greek visited the people of the north-eastern Europe from whom the Greeks imported wheat and whom Heroditus called “Scythians”.
Many “historians” have also omitted the fact that the whole area which we know as the Ex-Soviet Union was originally populated by Indo-Germanic and Finno-Ugrian people.
An example of this fact is the Bastarni people, who lived between the rivers Dniepr and Bug around the time as Herodotus visited the area.
The Slavic people started to move into said area from Balkan at the end of the 5th century A.D. after the Huns’ invasion. First they moved into Ukraine and from there into the heartland of Russia. The name Ukraine comes most likely from Slavic name “u krajina” meaning “at frontier, which in my opinion, proves that at the time “Russia” was still unknown to the Slavs.
The Huns created great devastation wherever they went and therefore many Germanic tribes fled from their place of habitation. This in turn created great hardships in many parts of central and northern Europe as the lands couldn’t sustain large amounts of migrants. This, in my opinion, was also the time when Gotland experienced its over-population.
While most of the northern Europe and Fenno-Scandia experienced many wars and armed conflicts, Gotland, which is an island located about 50 nautical miles east of Swedish coast in the Baltic Sea, was saved from most of the hardships. Therefore its history as a “sea-merchant economy” which extended to Mediterranean and the Middle East and dates back to the Bronze Age (circa 1500-500 B.C.) is, in my opinion, a very good indicator of the trading activities of the Germanic merchants which must have encompassed also the entire Baltic Sea area, the Gulf of Finland and “Russia”. I also believe that they must have traded at the time with the well known merchants of the Komi-Finns, who were a part of the state of Perma, as mentioned in my manuscript.
All this clearly proves that the Indo-European merchants traded throughout the then known world long before our Christian Era (C.E.) as stated in the cuneiform tablets.
We have to remember that originally in Europe there were only three kinds of people namely the Indo-Germanics, the Finno-Ugrians and the Aryans or Carpato-Danubians, or by what so-ever name you prefer to call them.
Though all the wars and turbulences in Europe have destroyed a great deal of trading evidences, and also for some unexplainable reasons, some of the historically important buildings have been destroyed. But in Gotland some of the evidences have been preserved. Such are for example the so called skeppsattningar or ship-graves. It has been said that 350 such ship like burial sites have survived.
Regardless of all the mistreatments, if not outright vandalism, there is still enough evidence of the Germanic merchants’ efforts to bring civility and good relations among the people.
Such evidences are the six-petal flower designs, which you can see on the stone-foundations of many medieval buildings, which also my wife witnessed in Tallinn (Raeval) when she visited Estonia.
Another good example of the co-operation between the Germanic and Finnic merchants is the Amber trade.
At that time Amber was obtainable only from the south-eastern shores of the Baltic Sea which were populated by tribes of the Finno-Ugrians, the Liivs (Lithuanians), the Laetts (Latvians) and Viro (Estonians).
It has also been said that the Romans imported Amber around 14 A.D. as I have mentioned in my manuscript.
Rolf A. Heyno (Heijno)
