Heinrich Bening

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Daniel Heinrich Ludwig Bening (born February 5, 1801 in Neuenhaus ; † March 7, 1895 in Hanover ) was a German economist and lawyer . As a member of the Prussian House of Representatives and Hanoverian administrative officer in the State Council, he played a formative role in Hanover's economic, social and administrative history of the 19th century.

Life

Bening was the son of the country doctor Bernhard Friedrich Bening (1752-1806) and his wife, Maria Elisabeth Feltrup, a subsidiary of New Hauser judge and Gaugrafen Johann Gerhard Cramerus .

After studying law from 1819 to 1822 in Göttingen and working as a lawyer in Bentheim, Bening switched to the administrative service of the civil office of Bentheim in 1824. His brother Wilhelm Bening (1797–1881) was bailiff there from 1838 to 1857, his two other brothers also worked as reformed pastors and doctors in the Bentheimer Land. In 1833 Heinrich Bening switched to the Hanoverian Interior Office in the state capital as an assistant civil servant. There he became a chancellery and lecturer in 1840 and a councilor in 1843. Bening represented the town of the County of Bentheim from 1832 to 1837 in the Second Hanover Chamber. The Neuenhauser was a member of the Hanover State Council from 1839 to 1848. From 1849 to 1854 Bening was a member of the First Hanover Chamber. Since 1851, a secret government councilor in the Ministry of the Interior, among other things, the Hanoverian Police and Forest Criminal Law was created there under his leadership. He was also involved in the trade regulations of 1847. From 1841 to 1848 was an extraordinary member until he was appointed member and in 1852 successor as Secretary General of the State Council of Johann Friedrich Wedemeyer. Benning held the office until 1855, when he resigned from the State Council and worked as head of the Hanover office first in Ilten , then in 1859 in Wennigsen. There he was appointed governor in 1868.

He was followed by Finance Director Carl Ludwig Bar in the State Council . From 1856 to 1866 at the latest, the liberal Bening represented the towns of Münder, Pattensen and the surrounding area in the Second Hanover Chamber. From 1867 to 1876, Bening represented the Wennigsen constituency as a national liberal in the Prussian House of Representatives, where he made a name for himself as an opponent of the Emsland MP Ludwig Windthorst, against whose defense of the Duchy of Arenberg-Meppen before its dissolution he fought. His election application in Bentheimer Land failed in 1867.

Bening retired in 1883 and died in Hanover in 1895.

The promotion of the Hanoverian agricultural reform is considered to be his main merit. Most of his writings concern this area.

Fonts (selection)

  • Comments on the draft of the Basic State Law for the Kingdom of Hanover , Hanover 1832.
  • The savings and death banks in the Kingdom of Hanover , Hanover 1840.
  • The Hanoverian legislation on the division of mean things and the amalgamation of land , 1848
  • The hannoversche Landeskreditanstalt , 1851
  • The beginnings of the common divisions and couplings in the Kingdom of Hanover , 1858.
  • The farms and the right to dispose of them , Hanover 1862.
  • Hanover at its union with Prussia. For the gentle transition to its conditions , Hanover 1866.
  • Which people conquered Britain with the Saxons and gave it the name England? , in: Journal of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover 1888, pp. 1–19.
  • The German Reich election law and its reform , Hanover 1892.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Mann (arrangement) with the collaboration of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh , Thomas Kühne: Biographisches Handbuch für das Prussische Abrafenhaus 1867–1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 61.
  2. ^ Helmut Lensing: Art. Bening, Daniel Heinrich Lodewijk, Dr. , in: Emsländische Geschichte Vol. 7. Ed. by the Study Society for Emsländische Regionalgeschichte, Dohren 1998, pp. 121–125
personal data
SURNAME Bening, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bening, Daniel Heinrich Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuenhaus
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1895
Place of death Hanover