Peter Jochims

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Peter Jochims (born February 18, 1762 in Fahrstedt in Dithmarschen , † March 18, 1844 in Schleswig ) was a German civil servant .

Life

family

Peter Jochims came from a respected peasant family in Dithmarschen to which the theologian Claus Harms also belonged; his father was the farmer Claus Jochims (* May 1722, † February 25, 1788) and his wife Magdalena (née Wilkens); his uncle was Jakob Jochims (1719–1790), provost of Süderdithmarschen.

education

He attended the Meldorfer School of Academics and then studied law and philosophy . In 1797 he received his doctorate. phil .; he was a follower of Jean-Jacques Rousseau .

Career

After a brief activity at the Rentkammer , in 1801 he switched to the Schleswig-Holstein Land Commission, which had its official seat in Schleswig. As Land Commissioner it was his job to deal with economic and commercial matters for the western part of the Duchy of Holstein ; he held this office until his death.

1819 took place by the Danish King Friedrich VI. additionally his appointment as trade and factory manager for Schleswig-Holstein .

Nursery

He set up a nursery and tree nursery on the Erdbeerenberg in Schleswig- Friedrichsberg . From seedlings he grew poplar , willow , elm , linden and maple as well as ornamental plants such as rowan trees and the laburnum ; the nursery was founded in 1823 by the Danish King Friedrich VI. visited.

He gave thousands of young trees to municipalities , institutions and individuals free of charge in order to promote the tree population; In 1825 he donated the trees for Michaelisallee, which was planted with chestnuts and elms , among other things .

After a granite stone with an inscription was discovered in Lollfuß , he had it transported to the nursery. It was probably a boundary stone modeled on the rune stone , also called a "fortune teller stone "; today it belongs to the collection of the Schleswig-Friedrichsberg City Museum . Other monuments that were located in the tree nursery were erected for the discoverers of marl farming Parren Drews (1735–1800) from Süderdithmarschen and Adam Schneekloth from the provost ; A memorial stone was also erected for the first Christian Danish king, Harald Klack , and a 12-foot-high pointed column commemorated the thousand-year jubilee celebrations for the introduction of Christianity in Schleswig-Holstein in 1826.

estate

His collection of paintings, consisting of 68 pictures, including 26 historical motifs, 15 landscapes, 9 portraits, 6 animal pieces, 4 genre pictures and 8 flower and still lifes, he bequeathed to the University of Kiel , his books and picture collection with maps and several globes received the school of scholars in Meldorf, today the book collection is in the Dithmarscher Landesmuseum in Meldorf .

Peter Jochims remained unmarried and childless throughout his life. He was buried in the Michaeliskirchhof, his simple tombstone and an inscription plaque have been preserved to this day.

Writing

His concern was with local agriculture and the rational soil culture . In a number of treatises and essays, including in the Schleswig-Holstein Provincial Reports , he gave instructive instructions and useful advice. In the last years of his life he published forestry aphorisms and aphorisms in the form of brochures , as materials for the construction of a system of absolute natural law or for a speculative legal philosophy . He also published articles in the New Citizenship Magazine with special regard to the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg .

Memberships

honors and awards

  • In 1825 Peter Jochims was appointed to the judiciary and in 1830 to the budget.

Fonts (selection)

  • DG Begtrup's remarks on English agriculture, collected on a trip to England in 1797. Translated from the Danish by DP Jochims .
    • 1st volume . Copenhagen Leipzig Schubothe 1804. 2nd edition.
    • 2nd volume . Copenhagen Leipzig Schubothe 1801.
  • Aphorisms as materials for building a system of absolute natural law or for a speculative legal philosophy . Itzehoe Schönfeldt 1835.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Family tree. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
  2. ^ Library of the Meldorfer School of Academics. University of Göttingen, accessed on June 26, 2020 .
  3. ↑ De Schuuleck. In: www.alte-schleihalle.de. Retrieved June 26, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Jochims, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Fahrstedt
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1844
Place of death Schleswig