Eduard Schöningh (officer)

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Eduard Schöningh

Eduard Schöningh (born December 4, 1823 in Meppen ; † April 21, 1900 there ) was a pioneer of raised bog cultivation in the Emsland, an officer in the maritime corps of the German Imperial Fleet and in the Austrian naval artillery and mayor of Meppen / Ems.

Life

He was the youngest son of Heinrich Jakob Schöningh (1782–1833), bailiff of the Meppen office in the Duchy of Arenberg-Meppen , and his wife Josephine nee. Coppenrath (1789–1851), daughter of the bookseller and publisher Joseph Heinrich Coppenrath (1764–1853) from Münster . His eldest brother Josef Schöningh became a judge at the Meppen High Court . Ferdinand Schöningh (publisher, 1815) , another brother, was active as a publicist and publisher. He founded the Ferdinand Schöningh publishing house, which still exists today . Eduard Schöningh was born with Elisabeth. Married lamp from Lingen (Ems) ; her son Eduard Schöningh (1874–1956) lived as a landowner in Meppen.

After Schöningh had initially trained as a bookseller and had worked for five years as a bookseller's assistant in the Coppenrath bookstore in Munster, he took part in the Schleswig-Holstein survey as a volunteer in Bracklow's sniper corps . After the armistice in Malmö (August 26, 1848), Eduard Schöningh joined the maritime corps of the Reichsflotte established by the Frankfurt National Assembly under Admiral Karl Rudolf Brommy , where he achieved the rank of second lieutenant . After the Reichsflotte was dissolved, Schöningh entered Austrian service. From December 16, 1852 he was an officer of the naval artillery in the Imperial and Royal Navy, stationed in Venice , Trieste and Pula , where he also served temporarily on the frigate SMS Novara . There he was u. a. Commended by the Austrian Emperor for fighting a fire that broke out on board in 1866 . As an Austrian officer he took part in the German-Danish War and the German War and achieved the rank of captain in the Marine-Zeug-Corps.

In 1867 Schöningh said goodbye to active duty and returned to Meppen. There he worked in his native Emsland as a pioneer of raised bog cultivation. Eduard Schöningh and his brother Ferdinand founded the Schöninghsdorf moor colony . The Friedrich Krupp AG opened in 1877, its proposal to a firing range in Meppen, from which today's Bundeswehr Technical Center 91 was formed. In the last years of his life he was mayor of his hometown. He had previously been elected mayor, but could not take office because the Prussian authorities refused to confirm the election on the grounds that he was a citizen of an enemy state. As an Austrian officer, Schöningh had both Prussian and Austrian citizenship. For his services in the German-Danish War in 1864, Eduard Schöningh was made an honorary citizen of Wyk auf Föhr . On the same occasion he was awarded the Austrian Military Cross of Merit for his “special achievements during the expedition against the islands on the west coast of Schleswig from July 11th to 20th, 1864” .

Awards and honors

Awards from the Schleswig-Holstein Army

Awards in the service of the Austro-Hungarian Navy

Awards in the Kingdom of Prussia Province of Hanover

  • Red Eagle Order IV class (permission to accept and wear according to the entry in the Kk Marine land register on December 3, 1890 in the Army History Museum Vienna)

Other honors

  • " Honorary citizenship of the spot Wyk auf Föhr " (permission to accept the honor on May 18, 1865 (Kk Marine land register and Husum district archive))
  • The "Hauptmann-Schöningh-Straße" in the city of Meppen was named after him.
  • The district "Schöninghsdorf" of the municipality Twist (Emsland) was named after him.

literature

  • Horst Heinrich Bechtluft: Eduard Schöningh, seaman, mayor and bog colonist , in: Emsländische Geschichte , year 10, 2003, Study Society for Emsländische Regionalgeschichte eV, ISBN 3-9808021-1-6 ; ( Find hint )
  • Horst Heinrich Bechtluft, Art. Schöningh, Eduard, in: Study Society for Emsländische Regionalgeschichte (Ed.), Emsländische Geschichte, Vol. 10, Haselünne 2003, pp. 336–344.
  • Schöningh sin Dbod, 1876 1976, 100 years Schöninghsdorf , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 1976.
  • Festival committee 125 years Schöninghsdorf (Ed.): 125 years Schöninghsdorf 1876–2001 , Fege, Meppen 2001.
  • Hans Altmeppen-Többen: The history of the Krupp shooting range and the military technical department in Meppen. Goldschmidt-Druck, Werlte 1988, ISBN 3-927099-06-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Bär: The German Fleet from 1848-1852. Hirzel, Leipzig 1898. (Eduard Schöningh in the list of officers).
  2. ^ Imperial and Royal Army Ordinance Gazette (1866). Personnel matters. June 24, 1866, Retrieved June 9, 2019 .
  3. ^ Personnel changes in the Austro-Hungarian Army. (From June 15 to July 15, 1866.) . In: Austrian military magazine . tape 7 , no. 2 . Vienna 1866, p. 126 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed March 5, 2017]).
  4. ^ Friedrich Ritter von Wiser: The occupation of the North Frisian Islands in July 1864 . In: Danzers Army Newspaper . Special print. LW Seidel & Sohn, Vienna 1914, p. 12 u. 16 .
  5. ↑ a b Personnel changes in the kk Austrian army. (From Army Ordinance Sheet No. 41, dated 1864.) . In: Austrian military magazine . tape  5 , no. 3 . Vienna 1864, p. 138 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed March 5, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Gerd Stolz: The "conquest" of the North Frisian Islands in 1864: an affair from the German-Danish war , Volume 10 of: Heimatkundliche Schriften des Nordfriesischer Verein für Heimatkunde und Heimatliebe , Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, 1988, page 62
  7. ↑ Announcement in the Army Ordinance Gazette. Retrieved August 15, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Announcement in the Army Ordinance Gazette. Retrieved June 9, 2019 .
  9. ↑ memorial sheet of the k. and k. KriegsMarine 1st volume, Pola 1898 (p. 98). Retrieved August 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schöningh, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian naval officer, mayor of Meppen
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Meppen
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1900
Place of death Meppen