Johann Georg Wachenhusen

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Johann Georg Heinrich Wachenhusen , also Hans (von) Wachenhusen (born April 1, 1781 in Schwerin , † December 21, 1833 in Wilhelmsburg ) was a German officer and publicist .

Life

Johann Georg Wachenhusen was a son of the governor in Doberan Wilhelm Andreas Friedrich Wachenhusen (1748–1821) and his wife Caroline Luise Sophie, née. Schmidt (1756-1794). He attended the Fridericianum Schwerin and then embarked on a career as an officer. In 1796 he was a volunteer in the Hanoverian military service and in 1798 joined the Swedish military service as an ensign . In 1802 he was first lieutenant, then captain of the squadron hunters on horseback in the Jemtlands Dragoon Regiment; In 1805 he took his leave as a major . He lived in Bützow as a privateer for a few years . In 1810 he acquired the Klein Nienhagen estate , which he kept until 1815, but then had to sell it. In 1816 he moved to Doberan.

After the death of his father, who did not bring the desired and urgently needed inheritance, [he] collected the ruins of his property , bought a small farm in Lurup in 1823 and began trading horses. From 1825 he lived in Altona . In the fall of the year he began to publish the newspaper for horse lovers . It also found many buyers abroad. Through these contacts, Wachenhusen also established itself as a broker for racehorses that were imported from England. At the end of the 1820s, Duke Christian August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg appointed him secretary of the Oldesloer races , which took place annually from 1830 to 1836.

After 1833 Magnus Friedrich von Holmer published the magazine Hippologische Blätter. Having founded a magazine for refined horse breeding , there soon came friction between the two papers , and a debate in the Altonaer Mercur , where an article against Wachenhusen and his magazine with 67 signatures from Mecklenburg appeared. A reply soon followed, and the result was a duel on December 21, 1833 between the Mecklenburg horse breeder Baron Wilhelm von Biel and Wachenhusen on the Hanover coast near the Schluisgrove in the Wilhelmsburg district (today part of the Hamburg harbor), where Wachenhusen was killed .

Since 1805 he was with Elisabeth Dorothea (Doris) Regina, geb. Hartwig (1782– after 1839) was married. Wachenhusen's debts exceeded his legacy, which is why the Duke of Augustenburg supported the widow. His son Detlof Wilhelm Friedrich (born October 9, 1806 in Bützow), Danish lieutenant in the cavalry in Altona since 1832, published the newspaper for horse lovers for a year after his father's death. In the summer of 1835 he went to Greece ; he died in Austrian military service on January 14, 1837 in Vienna .

Works

  • Newspaper for horse lovers , Langhans, Hamburg 1.1825 / 26 - 9.1833, ZDB -ID 969032-3 .
    • Newspaper for horse lovers: Issue 1–52. Reprint of the Hamburg edition 1825–26. Dortmund: Harenberg 1977 (The bibliophile paperbacks 11)

literature

  • Georg Wilhelm Schrader, Eduard Hering: Biographical-literary lexicon of veterinarians of all times and countries, as well as natural scientists, physicians, farmers, stable managers and the like. SW, who have made a name for themselves in animal medicine . Ebner and Seubert, Stuttgart 1863 ( online [accessed July 6, 2017]). , Pp. 456f, No. 1894
  • Eduard Alberti : Lexicon of the Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburgischen and Eutinian writers. Volume 2, Kiel 1864, p. 523
  • 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. 10448 f .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He called himself von Wachenhusen without being ennobled, see Hermann Grotefend : Über Stammtafeln (with an example: the Wachenhusen family). In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology 70 (1905), pp. 1–48 ( full text )
  2. ↑ In other sources different: July 1, 1781 .
  3. ↑ Older regional literature on Mecklenburg names - possibly as a derivation from the place of activity - Altona as his place of death
  4. ↑ Schrader (lit.)
  5. ↑ ZDB -ID 969032-3
  6. ↑ ZDB -ID 18699-5
  7. ↑ The name of the newspaper was "Altonaischer Mercurius" until 1838, ( ZDB -ID 291255-7 ).
  8. ^ Alberti (lit.)
personal data
SURNAME Wachenhusen, Johann Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wachenhusen, Johann Georg Heinrich (full name); Wachenhusen, Hans (von)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1833
Place of death Wilhelmsburg