Johann Christian von Düring the Younger

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Johann Christian von Düring (born April 16, 1792 in Dannenberg , † January 29, 1862 in Hanover ) was a German camerawoman , forest clerk and free corps officer in the service of the Electorate and Kingdom of Hanover during the Wars of Liberation .

origin

Von Düring was the third son of the royal Hanoverian chief forest master , later general forest director and chief hunter, Johann Christian von Düring (1751-1823) and his wife Marie Ulrike Friederike von Lindau (born August 26, 1762; † June 16, 1832). He was a member of the old Lower Saxon noble family Düring . The family seat is in Düring , today in the municipality of Loxstedt in the district of Cuxhaven .

Career

Beginnings in the forest service

Like his father, Düring wanted a career in forest service. From 1808 and 1809 he received his first practical training from forest inspector Philipp Christian Friedrich Bodecker in Lauenstein and from 1810 to 1811 he attended the forest institute in Stuttgart under the direction of Georg Ludwig Hartig . After the annexation of Hanover by the French Empire , he escaped French military service thanks to a patent he had since obtained as a Mecklenburg-Strelitz forest and hunting squire . After his return from Stuttgart, Düring worked for his father, who had meanwhile become head forester in Lauenburg on the Elbe . In his difficult position as head of the forest administration in the now French department of the Elbe estuary , he was able to render him helpful.

In the wars of liberation

After Düring had previously refused to enter the Swedish military for professional and patriotic reasons , he joined the Hanoverian troops during the uprising against Napoleon in 1813 and also participated in recruiting himself . From 18 March 1813, he campaigned within days 50 Lauenburgische hunters , which he said in Hamburg with the establishment of a voluntary military police corps Kielmannseggeschen hunters employed Colonel Friedrich von Kielmansegg over turned. As part of this troop, Düring took part in the French campaigns of 1813/14. In January 1814 he was promoted to captain and company commander and returned to his real profession after the Peace of Paris in 1814.

On October 27, 1814, Düring was appointed chief forest auditor of the Lauenburg forest department. He used the winter semester 1814/15 for further training in camera science at the University of Berlin , whereupon he was appointed forester's junker in the spring of 1815. As a result of the events of 1815 , he entered the military again and was appointed as captain in the 2nd  hunter company of the royal field hunter corps , which was made up only of trained foresters . In this position he took part again in the fighting against France and was then commander of the royal police corps in Göttingen . He held this position until 1820, but continued to pursue forestry studies, travel and temporary stays at the forestry authorities.

Further career

In March 1820, Düring finally retired from military service and a few months later became forester in Rotenburg , where he undertook extensive reforestation ( Luhner wood ). From 1838 to 1842 he was appointed by King Ernst August of Hanover as governor of the education of the then blind, then 18-year-old Crown Prince Georg of Hanover . Düring left this position on March 1, 1842 at his own request to return to practical forestry service. He was appointed head forester in Northeim and a few years later, because of his well-founded theoretical and practical experience in forestry, he was appointed head of forestry in the Hanover Chamber of Domains . The main focus of his work there was not only the care of the forests, he also took care of the staff, for example by founding a death benefit association in 1851 . In addition, he also promoted forestry at the community level. He was a member of the Hanover State Council from 1852.

In 1853 he resigned from his positions in forestry for health reasons, but remained on the Council of State until his death. He died in 1862 and was buried in the Rotenburg oak grove he had created . Forest officials from Hanover have erected a granite monument at the grave site. The grave is now on the site of the von Düring barracks named after him . His comrade in the Wars of Liberation Christian Schultz found his final resting place in the grave , while Frau von Düring was buried together with the heart of her husband in the cemetery in Rotenburg.

family

He married Georgine Luise Frederike Meyer on June 2, 1826 in Ipswich (* July 8, 1804, † December 16, 1836). The couple had several children:

  • Otto Emil (* January 23, 1829 - † October 18, 1912) ⚭ 1859 Ida Henriette Wilhelmine Auguste Helmine von Engel (* November 10, 1827)
  • Georgine Marie Karoline (* December 4, 1836 - December 5, 1878) ⚭ 1859 Otto von Lützow (* May 20, 1832 - May 28, 1900) Lord of Tessin, Groß-Salitz with Radegast and Schönwalde

Awards

Fonts

  • Diary of the King Hanoverian Chief Forester, Secret Councilor, General Lieutenants Excellenz Johann Christian von Düring, born: Dannenberg, April 16, 1792, died: Hanover, January 29, 1862 , 1903

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Awards and their order according to the Court and State Manual for the Kingdom of Hanover 1853, p. 323
personal data
SURNAME Düring, Johann Christian von the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Düring, Johann Christian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest official and Freikorps officer
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Dannenberg (Elbe)
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1862
Place of death Hanover