Gustav Brüning

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Friedrich Carl Gustav Brüning (born October 20, 1835 in Schwerin , † March 23, 1882 in Beirut ) was a German lawyer and consul of the German Empire .

Life

Gustav Brüning, son of a councilor, attended the Fridericianum Schwerin high school and graduated from high school in 1855. He then studied law in Berlin , Göttingen , Heidelberg and Rostock . In Göttingen he joined the Hanover fraternity in the summer semester of 1857 . In December 1860 he was the Auskultatorexamen in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . Then he joined the Prussian judicial service. In 1863 he was appointed trainee lawyer. He interrupted his legal traineeship for a longer educational trip to France, Italy and Egypt. After passing the 2nd state examination in 1870, he worked as a court assessor in the district of the higher court.

Successful application for a consular career led to being drafted into the Foreign Service in October 1871 . On November 24, 1871, he was commissioned to take on the provisional administration of the post of Vice Consul at the Consulate General of the German Empire in Alexandria . In March 1872 he was appointed vice consul.

Gustav Brüning was promoted to consul and headed the German consulate in Tbilisi from 1873 to 1876 and was then consul in Beirut until his death. Shortly after his transfer, he received general authorization to marry German Reich citizens and to certify the births, marriages and deaths of German Reich citizens in his district.

Map of Bulgaria after the Peace of San Stefano

His activity in Beirut was interrupted by a special commission: After the end of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877/78, the Principality of Bulgaria was created on March 3, 1878 in the Peace of San Stefano , which was tributary to Turkey. The regulations regarding Bulgaria underwent a number of changes at the Berlin Congress in June / July 1878. The territory was reduced in size; Russia was obliged to end the occupation of Bulgaria within nine months. Until the Principality of Bulgaria was able to regulate its state affairs itself, the major European powers set up a European Commission for the administration of Bulgaria in Sofia. Gustav Brüning belonged to this body from January 31 to July 16, 1879 as a delegate of the German Empire.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 163-164.
  • Autograph by Gustav Brüning in the album of the fraternity Hannovera Göttingen with handwritten entries about its members from 1848 to 1861/62
  • Justiz-Ministerial-Blatt for the Prussian legislation and administration of justice 1863, p. 93; 1870, p. 202 and 1872, p. 110
  • Central-Blatt für das Deutsche Reich, published by the Reich Chancellor, Carl Heymann's Verlag, Berlin 1876, p. 322 and 360
  • Henning Tegtmeyer : Directory of members of the fraternity of Hannovera Göttingen, 1848–1998 , Düsseldorf 1998, p. 29
  • Johannes Hürter, Martin Kröger, Rolf Messerschmidt, Christiane Scheidemann: Biographical Handbook of the Foreign Service 1871–1945, Volume 1: A – F, Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn a. a. 2000, p. 305

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of high school graduates, in: Münnich, Franz, Das Gymnasium Fridericianum zu Schwerin 1853–1903, Bärensprung, Schwerin 1904
  2. ↑ Autograph in the album of the fraternity Hannovera Göttingen
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Gustav Brüning, Consul of the German Empire in Beirut  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / portal.hsb.hs-wismar.de
personal data
SURNAME Brüning, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brüning, Friedrich Carl Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and consul of the German Empire
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1882
Place of death Beirut