Carl von Heppe

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Carl von Heppe (born June 23, 1686 in Kassel ; born as Carl Heppe ; † January 6, 1759 ) was a German hunting writer and Bavarian forest inspector .

Life

Heppe came from a family that had been in the Hessen-Kassel service for a long time . He seems to have enjoyed his training in local “forest and hunting services” with “a famous old noble Weydmann and good teaching principals from the [..] hunter race of the waxes”. Later he entered the royal Saxon-Gotha service and from 1714 held the position of bailiff to Volkenroda . On December 29, 1718 he was 32 years old by Emperor Charles VI. raised to the nobility without any apparent merit of his own.

In 1734 he acquired the Thalborn property in the Duchy of Saxony-Eisenach for 7,000 guilders, which was inherited from the princely Schwarzenberg family. The lending by the latter took place only three years later. However, with regard to raising the purchase price, he got into trouble early on, which led to disputes with the seller. His wife Maria Catharina, née von Thun, later, in 1759, was forced to sell this property again.

Presumably due to deepening financial difficulties, he looked around for a new position in the Bavarian civil service. On August 18, 1747 he was appointed to the electoral Bavarian truchess, with a pension or salary of 300 guilders per year, for which he had previously converted to the Catholic faith. Probably due to the fact that it was not assigned any special use for a long time, he devoted himself to hunting writing. With this he drew primarily from his own wealth of experience. In 1751 his descriptive book Aufrichtiger Lehrprinz or Praktische Abhandlung von dem Leithund was published as the foundation of the noble deer-fair hunt . After various petitions and petitions, and probably not least because of his literary work, he was appointed forest inspector and in June 1753 assigned to a large inspection district in the Bavarian Forest . In the resulting position of forest forester at the Straubing Rent Office, he now received a total salary of 500 gulden, a vacant service apartment, 20 fathoms each of hardwood and softwood, 50 gulden plus 24 bushels of oats as a grant for the maintenance of two horses. Which should have improved his financial situation noticeably.

In 1754 he published the book The Self-Rathende Jäger , in which he vividly and accurately presented legal problems relating to hunting from the layperson's perspective. There were no further announced publications.

He died on January 6, 1759 and was buried on January 8, 1759 in Freihöls in the Upper Palatinate , the official residence of his son Christian Wilhelm von Heppe .

Works

  • Mr. Carl von Heppe, heir, feudal and court lord on Thalborn, also heir to Reyhershausen etc. Sr. Churfürstl. Pass in Bavaria really. Truchses, sincere teaching prince or practical treatise on the leader dog, as the foundation of the noble deer-friendly hunt . In addition to a thorough explanation of the weydman idioms, and many other general remarks useful for hunting science. Bey Johann Jacob Lotter sel. Erben, Augspurg 1751.
  • Carl von Heppe: The self-guessing hunter, or: One hundred and seventeen exquisite and in part very delicate cases and controversial cases / which occur daily in the forest, hunting and fishing creatures, and from the rights as well as particularly good. Observance are decided . Bey Johann Jacob Lotter sel. Erben, Augsburg 1754.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Kurt Lindner : German hunting writer. Volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, 1964, p. 188. (limited preview on Google Books)
  2. ^ Kurt Lindner: German hunting writer. Volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, 1964, p. 197. (limited preview on Google Books)
personal data
SURNAME Heppe, Carl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heppe, Carl (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hunting writer and Bavarian forester
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1686
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1759