Carl Georg Behrens

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Carl Georg Behrens (1858)

Carl Georg Behrens (born November 18, 1792 in Hagenow , † September 25, 1879 in Hamburg ) was a German officer and topographer.

Life

Carl Georg Behrens was the younger son of the builder Ernst Christian August Behrens († 1817) and his wife Dorothea Elisabeth, b. Ahlendorf. Heinrich Ludwig Behrens (1787–1839) was his older brother. In 1802 Ernst Christian August Behrens was appointed city architect in Lübeck. From 1807 to 1811 both brothers assisted their father with the triangulation of the Lübeck national territory, from which a topographic map was created.

In 1813 he joined the Hanseatic Legion as a volunteer . After a short time he was appointed second lieutenant . He fought with the Russian-German Legion in the Battle of the Göhrde .

After the Legion was dissolved, he was accepted into the Lübeck military in 1814 . It was set up at the end of November 1814, and only members of the Hanseatic Legion who had passed away with good credentials were accepted. On the news of Napoleon's return from Elba , Lübeck set up a Hanseatic Brigade together with Hamburg and Bremen on March 29, 1815 ; A large part of the city's military was integrated into the Lübeck contingent of the association and moved out on June 12 for the campaign, but was no longer used in combat because the war ended earlier. The troops returned to the city on January 29, 1816.

Officers of the Oldenburg-Hanseatic Brigade, ca.1840
Große Petersgrube 12, home of Carl Georg Behrens

With the entry into force of the Federal War Constitution in 1821, Lübeck provided a contingent of the Federal Army of the German Confederation . Since 1832, the Lübeck military was officially designated as a federal contingent and, together with the contingents of Hamburg, Bremen and the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, formed the Oldenburg-Hanseatic Brigade , which was assigned to the X. Federal Army Corps . Behrens was initially a captain. After the departure of Major Christian Ludwig Niemeitz in 1843, accompanied by tumults that lasted for days, Behrens was appointed commander of the Lübeck companies of the Lübeck-Bremen Light Infantry Battalion and promoted to Major . In 1857 he became a lieutenant colonel and battalion chief as well as city commander of Lübeck.

In 1827 he measured the Trave for a projected puncture and carried out the first measurement of the castle wall of Alt Lübeck . On the basis of the previous survey work, he and his brother published a topographic map of the Lübeck area in the same year on a scale of 1: 91,700. In 1829, the first volume of the topography and statistics of Lübeck and the office of Bergedorf, which was shared with Hamburg, followed . After his brother had died in 1837, he published the second part alone in 1839. A second edition started in 1856 remained unfinished.

In 1838 he was a founding member of the Lübeck Statistics Association . He also belonged to the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology and was a corresponding member of the Association for Hamburg History.

On his 70th birthday he had been a soldier for almost 50 years and was indisputably the oldest Bat [aillons] commander in all armies and contingents.

On the 50th anniversary of his entry into the Hanseatic Legion, the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck honored him with the Bene Merenti commemorative coin , his highest honor.

With effect from 1 January 1865, he was with the character as a colonel retires. His successor was Ferdinand von Bültzingslöwen , who was promoted to major .

He was married to his niece Christiane Caroline Louise, b. Pitschner (1811-1897). The couple had seven sons and two daughters. The family lived in the house at Große Petersgrube 12 (at that time house number 412 Marien Quartier ).

Awards

Works

  • Topographic map of the area of ​​the free Hanseatic city of Lübeck by HL u. G. Behrens. 1827. 1: 91700
2nd edition, corrected by G. Behrens, 1843.
  • (with Heinrich Ludwig Behrens): Topography and statistics of Lübeck and the Bergedorf office shared with Hamburg: A contribution to the topographical-statistical-historical-political description of the free Hanseatic city of Lübeck and its rural areas.
Volume 1: Topography and parts of the statistics of Lübeck and the Bergedorf office. Lübeck: Rohden 1829
Digital copy , Bavarian State Library
Volume 2: Contains the constitution and the public administration of Lübeck and the Amte Bergedorf. Lübeck: von Rohden; [Lübeck]: Borchers 1839
  • 2nd edition of Volume 1, Lübeck: Rohden 1856
Digital copy , Bavarian State Library

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Topographic map of the area of ​​the free Hanseatic city of Lübeck, measured and drawn by ECA Behrens u. Sons. 1809-1813. l: 22000.
  2. ↑ See also Martin Funk : Die Straßen-Tumulte in Lübeck, 1843 and 1848. In: ZVLGA 8 (1899), pp. 270-313
  3. ↑ Military papers 8 (1862), p. 73
  4. ^ Lübeck population censuses, accessed via ancestry.com
  5. ↑ Royal Prussian Order List 1877, p. 599
  6. ↑ Royal Prussian Order List 1877, p. 142
  7. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzothum Oldenburg 1863, p. 54
  8. ↑ Austrian-Imperial Court Calendar 1874, p. 119
  9. ↑ Royal Danish Court and State Calendar 1862, p. 68
personal data
SURNAME Behrens, Carl Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Behrens, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and topographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagenow
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1879
Place of death Hamburg