Gottlieb of Biel

Gottlieb von Biel (born August 15, 1792 in Braunschweig , † May 11, 1831 in Zierow ) was a Mecklenburg landlord and horse breeder.

Life

Gottlieb von Biel was the younger of two sons of the ducal Braunschweig's privy councilor and dean of St. Blasius Christian Andreas von Biel (1740-1805) on Zierow in Mecklenburg, who was raised to the imperial nobility in 1791 . In 1785, the father had acquired the former Negendankschen estates in Zierow, Eggerstorf, Neu-Jassewitz and Weitendorf near Wismar from Adrian Wilhelm Pauli and Magdalena Pauli . When he died, they fell to his underage sons Gottlieb and the older Wilhelm . By way of the inheritance dispute, Weitendorf and Neu-Jassenitz came to Gottlieb von Biel. As a child, Gottlieb von Biel had already received a vicarie at St. Blasius in Braunschweig in 1801.

He took part in the Wars of Liberation as an adjutant to General Wilhelm von Dörnberg and later moved from Hanover as a captain to the Brunswick service. After saying goodbye to the military, he managed his inherited goods and repaired them structurally, and also built new buildings and parks.

Together with his brother Wilhelm, Count Plessen on Ivenack and Friedrich Graf von Hahn on Basedow , he began breeding English thoroughbreds in Mecklenburg . The successes in breeding brought the Biel brothers international attention and recognition. He is the founder of the horse races for thoroughbred horses on the Ostseerennbahn in Bad Doberan (1822) and of races in Güstrow , Basedow as well as in Neubrandenburg .

As an author, he wrote books and articles about horse breeding and equestrian sports under his own name and anonymously. In them he vehemently represented the advantages of the English thoroughbreds against the prevailing opinion of Wilhelm Carl Friedrich von Burgsdorff and Georg Gottlieb Ammon . To be sure, there was some speculation and the prospect of profit involved from one side, but on the whole the dispute over the improvement of horse breeding contributed a great deal not only in northern Germany, but also in other countries. The English rider and equestrian author Charles James Apperley (1777–1843) reports under his pseudonym Nimrod about a visit to the brothers from Biel on their estates and about a visit to the Doberan horse races in 1829.

Gottlieb von Biel was a member of the Mecklenburg Patriotic Association and one of the district directors of this association.

Fonts (selection)

• Something about noble horses. Hilscher, Dresden 1830. ( Digitalisat , Veterinary Medicine Hannover )
• involved anonymously: laws for Mecklenburg's horse races. 1823.
• involved anonymously: Mecklenburg's horse race. (Yearbook), documented for 1827 to 1831. ( Digitized version of the 1829 edition, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek )
• Anonymous involved: Directory of thoroughbred horses in Mecklenburg. 3 volumes, 1827–1830.

literature

• Charles James Apperly: Nimrods German Tour. 1828. (First edition of Nimrods German Tour. In: Sporting Magazine. 1829–1830. Most recently: Godewind Verlag , Wismar 2006.) ISBN 978-3-939198-70-3 .
• Friedrich Brüssow: Gottlieb Wilhelm Ludwig, Baron of Biel. in: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. 9 / I (1831), Voigt, Ilmenau 1833, p. 409 f. (No. 137) ( digitized version )
• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 988 .
• Horst Gründel: Baron Gottlieb von Biel has done a great job creating racecourses; however, many died again after a short period of bloom. in: Mecklenburg horses. 2009, 2, p. 27.

Web links

• The Biel brothers make the race. in. Nordkurier. dated April 29, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Döll: The collegiate monasteries St. Blasius and St. Cyriacus in Braunschweig. in: Braunschweiger Werkstücke, Vol. 36. Waisenhaus-Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Braunschweig 1967, p. 335.
2. ^ Obituary: German magazine for the entire animal medicine. 2 (1831), p. 116.
3. ↑ The Biel brothers win the race. ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in. Nordkurier. dated April 29, 2013.