Albrecht Friedrich Georg Baring

Albrecht Friedrich Georg Baring , from 1821 von Baring (* December 21, 1767 in Hanover ; † November 27, 1835 ibid) was a German lawyer and administrative clerk , most recently with the rank and title of a royal Hanoverian secret chancellery in the State Ministry.

family

Albrecht Baring came from the Baring family , he was the fourth child of the Hanoverian civil servant Christian Ludwig Baring (1721–1792) and Clara Margarete Eleonore nee. von Wüllen (1747–1817), daughter of the electoral court judge and Calenberg state counsel Albrecht Christoph von Wüllen (1713–1789). Baring's father was an electoral court clerk and a Calenberg land rent master . Baring had four siblings.

Baring married Amalie nee on June 23, 1796 in the castle church in Hanover. Scheele (1773-1824), daughter of the wealthy royal chamberlain and mining commissioner Scheele. The couple had eight children. Barings had eight children:

Live and act

Baring studied law at the University of Göttingen . In 1792 he was electoral Hanover chamber secretary, in 1802 he was given the rank and title of a councilor of commerce . In the Napoleonic Wars and during the time of the Kingdom of Westphalia , part of his salary was initially withdrawn, so that he largely consumed his own fortune and that of his wife. During the war, he earned his living by being a good horse connoisseur, buying riding horses cheaply and selling them to French officers at high prices.

In 1803 Baring published a book about the civil administration of Hanover. Already at that time, during the French occupation, he was responsible for catering to the French army . In 1806, again under French occupation, he was appointed to the "Executive Commission" which, as the provisional government, ran the country's affairs. In July 1810 he was involved with General von Hans Georg von Hammerstein-Equord in the training of an honor guard , which was formed to receive King Jérôme . In the same year the king even wanted to sponsor his youngest son Julius.

Until 1817 Baring was director for direct taxes in Hanover. He then worked as a royal bailiff in Peine. In fact, he remained but mainly live in his city apartment in Hanover in former Wildingschen house where he stores the property tax - Exemtions - Commission pursued. Only during the summer months did he and his family move into a comfortable official apartment in Peine, where the gardens, fish ponds and hunting offer many amenities. In 1821 Baring was made a knight of the royal Guelph order by King George IV , which gave him personal nobility . In 1823 Baring asked to be released from the office in Peine. He was then appointed to the senior tax council with the rank of royal councilor. After the death of his wife, Baring lived in the former Striehl house on Georgstrasse in Hanover from 1824.

Since 1825, Baring was also a member of the State Economics College in Celle as a state economics councilor. After the dissolution of this college, he was transferred to the Hanoverian Ministry in 1833 as a royal Hanoverian secret chancellery to deal with the appointments in matters of replacement and common division . At the same time he was appointed assessor in the State Council. Until 1834 Baring was a deputy in the General Assembly of the Kingdom of Hanover. There he represented the monasteries of St. Alexandri and Beatae Mariae Virginis zu Einbeck as a member of parliament , where he also served as a canon for several years .

Baring was buried next to his wife in the garden church yard St. Marien in Hanover, next to his daughter Auguste, the grandmother of Wüllen and her sister-in-law Henriette Baring.

Awards

• 1821: Knight's Cross of the Guelph Order

literature

• Adolf Baring : The Baring family, in particular the Hanoverian line, with 22 illustrations and a coat of arms in: German Roland Book for Gender Studies , published by the "Roland" Association for the Promotion of Stamm-, Wappen- und Siegelkunde EV, 1st volume, Dresden 1918, P. 7ff.
• German gender book. Volume 192, Görlitz 1938.