Hennig Wichmann was one of the leaders of the Likedeeler, an association of former Victual Brothers

Victual Brothers

The Victual Brothers were a companionship of privateers who later turned to piracy. They were hired in 1392 by the Dukes of Mecklenburg to fight against Denmark, because the Danish Queen Margaret I had imprisoned Albrecht of Mecklenburg and his son in order to subdue the kingdom of Sweden...

 who had turned pirate.

Together with Klaus Störtebeker

Klaus Störtebeker

Nikolaus Storzenbecher, or Klaus Störtebeker , was a leader and the best known representative of a companionship of privateers known as the Victual Brothers...

 and Magister Wigbold

Magister Wigbold

Magister Wigbold , also called “Master of the Seven Arts”, was a German pirate who belonged to the famous Likedeeler pirates of Klaus Störtebeker. Wighold was one of the most noted Likedeeler, along with Gödeke Michels and Störtebeker. The nickname Wigbold comes from wig and bold...

, he wreaked havoc in the North and Baltic Sea at the end of the 14th century. They owned fast ships which were able to capture Hanseatic

Hanseatic League

The Hanseatic League was an economic alliance of trading cities and their merchant guilds that dominated trade along the coast of Northern Europe...

 ships with ease. Their aim was plunder and surviving prisoners were usually thrown overboard.

In 1402 Wichmann was captured and executed by beheading on the Grasbrook in Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

together with 73 of his men, less than a year after the capture and execution of Klaus Störtebeker.