August Hinrich von Detmers

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August Hinrich von Detmers (born April 30, 1730 in Rastede , † May 22, 1781 in Rendsburg ) was a German officer.

Live and act

August Hinrich von Detmers was a son of the Rasteder magistrate Hinrich Detmers (1695–1748) and his wife Sophia Elisabeth Henrichs. With a royal resolution of July 12, 1745, he entered the service of the fortification budget of Holstein as Werkbaas rèformé (cadet) . After an engineering training and subsequent work for the fortification budget, he was appointed real engineer captain on April 2, 1766.

In 1774 the government planned to build the Schleswig-Holstein Canal . On orders from Detmers, he worked on a government commission that examined several possible canal constructions. He and his colleague Chr. Friedrich Hermann Peymann (1732–1817) were considered to be “two well-known capable men”. In May 1774 he became a member of the sub-commission for further regional planning and later construction management. In the same year he led several surveying and leveling work.

On July 28, 1767, von Detmers married Christina Margrethe Franck (1735-1818), who was born there in Meldorf and whose father Christian Stephan Franck worked as a parish bailiff.

After determining the course of the canal, von Detmers participated in the execution of the construction work. On January 1, 1777, he was awarded the title of major in the engineering corps. In 1779 he examined the possibility of building a harbor there on Heligoland and came to the conclusion that this was not possible. Due to an illness in autumn 1779, he stopped building the canal.

literature

  • Aage Rasch: Detmers, August Hinrich von . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 2. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1971, pp. 122–123

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogical entry on rootsweb : Johann Fridrich Detmers (born November 3, 1695 in Oldenburg; † February 23, 1748), Lieutenant and royal Danish judicial councilor and bailiff in Rastede. He studied in Leyden in 1717.
  2. ^ Manfred Jessen-Klingenberg : The Schleswig-Holstein Canal - Eider Canal. Prehistory, origin, meaning . P. 9, PDF
personal data
SURNAME Detmers, August Hinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1730
PLACE OF BIRTH Rastede
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1781
Place of death Rendsburg