Christian Neubauer

Christian Neubauer (* around 1645; † October 14, 1712 in Bremen ) was a German lieutenant colonel and Bremen fortress inspector and city ​​commander .

biography

Neubauer's family came from the Harz region . The father Moritz Neubauer († 1666) was a secret valet. He moved to Berlin-Cölln in 1646, lived there in the Breiten Strasse, became a princely chamber councilor and was the director of the construction of the palace in Berlin-Cölln.
Christian Neubauer served the Electorate of Brandenburg from 1667 to 1671 . He was trained as a fortress engineer and was an engineer-captain . Around 1679 he received the rank of lieutenant colonel . He managed the inherited Borin estate in Pomerania for himself and his five siblings . He was writing pamphlets on military architecture around this time. In 1681 he is said to have been employed in Danzig .

In 1689 Neubauer was appointed inspector of fortress construction and artillery and engineering in Bremen . As city commander, the military in Bremen was subordinate to him. He wrote numerous (up to 23) reports to improve the fortifications around Bremen ; but partly without success. Since 1694 he was in controversial competition with the Bremen council architect Hermann Brüggemann, who had that confidence in the Senate. Eleven publications from 1692 to 1706 on theological issues led him to oppose the Lutheran clergy at Bremen Cathedral in Reformed Bremen . In 1695 the Bremen council forbade him to publish further theological writings.

Fonts

• Discoursus et Vera architecturae militaris practice
• Unnecessary war affairs

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Volume: supplementary volume . A – Z. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-986-5 .
• Karin Bubke: The artillery. Engineering and architectural art are devoted. An appraisal from Bremen city commander Christian Neubauer from 1706 . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch , No. 82, pp. 68 to 80, Bremen 2003.