Johann Georg Beringer

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johann Georg Beringer

Johann Georg Beringer (* 1829 in Königstein , † 1919 in Tutzing ) was a German telecommunications inspector and bee specialist .

Life

Johann Georg Beringer was born in Königstein in today's Amberg-Sulzbach district as the son of the organ builder Tobias Beringer . He chose another profession and became an engineer and inventor. Here he devoted himself particularly to wired telegraphy . He is considered a pioneer in telephony and wired signal transmission. With the rank of "Royal Bavarian Telegraph Engineer" he was instrumental in setting up the first telephone on the Zugspitze and developing the first electrical safety devices on the railroad. In his job, he also installed various lock lighting and trained apprentices in telecommunications and electrical installation .

Beringer had extensive botanical knowledge and was a well-known beekeeper . His work Basics of Beekeeping is still relevant over 100 years after it was published. Even before there was an all-German association, he was chairman of the Bavarian beekeeping association and was active in the association as a “Tutzing bee father” and also as a hiking teacher. He also worked as an art collector. He was friends with Carl Spitzweg , Franz von Lenbach and Friedrich Kaulbach .

He was married to Therese Fischbach († 1900), daughter and last living descendant of the Austrian painter Johann Fischbach . Their children died at a young age.

The "Beringerheim" in Tutzing

In 1902 he bequeathed his own property, consisting of agricultural land, some stables and his house, to the “Bavarian Transport Officials Association” with the stipulation that a rest home for club members be created. He himself reserved the right to live in it for life. The "Beringerheim" was operated until 1990, with an interruption from 1936 due to expropriation.

Johann Georg Beringer died in 1919 at the age of 90 and was buried in the Old Tutzing Cemetery with great sympathy from local and foreign mourners. Today the Beringerweg in Tutzing reminds of him.

Works

  • Principles of Beekeeping , Datterer & Cie, 1899
  • Greetings from friends in 1909 , Tutzing, 1908

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OKB / Heike Nasritdinova:  Beringer, Johann Georg . Entry in the database of the Oberpfälzer Kulturbund (currently not available)
  2. ↑ a b c d e Tutzinger Nachrichten: Street names and who is behind them: Beringerweg , Heft 10, 2010, p. 22 ( online as PDF file )
  3. ↑ Bulletin de la Societe D'Apiculture D'Alsace-Lorraine: Johann Klör , Edition 4, 1898, p. 40
  4. ↑ Chronicle of the Erlangen Beekeeping Association
  5. ^ Note from Beringer on a postcard
personal data
SURNAME Beringer, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German telecommunications inspector and bee specialist
DATE OF BIRTH 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigstein
DATE OF DEATH 1919
Place of death Tutzing