Johann Gottlieb Möhring

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Johann Gottlieb Möhring (born December 1, 1735 in Leipzig , † February 17, 1820 in Lübeck ) was a German officer, cartographer and Freemason.

Life

Möhring was a lieutenant in the Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 33 BC. Thadden in Glatz . In 1773 he took his leave from Prussian service and went to Lübeck. On February 9, 1774, he was taken over as Artillery Prime Lieutenant in the service of the Free Imperial City under Egmont von Chasôt . On August 15, 1776 he married Helena, b. von Brömbsen from the old Lübeck council family. The cathedral pastor Johann Heinrich Carstens performed the wedding in the house of the captain and later city commandant Arnold Christian Sander in the Hartengrube . Sander was with Dorothea Elisabeth, geb. von Brömbsen married and became Möhring's brother-in-law. Möhrings lived on Aegidienstraße . He soon made a name for himself as a skilled cartographer .

Möhring's floor plan of Lübeck from 1787

"Möhring was without a doubt the most capable and busiest surveying officer in Lübeck at the end of the 18th century, as shown by the relatively large number of surveying maps of Luebeck villages and lands that were still preserved and which he drew with great care for the time." 1787 commissioned him by Johann Hermann Schnobel for the third edition of Jacob von Melle's Thorough Message from the Kayserlichen, Freyen and the H. Römis, which he published. Reichs city of Lübeck to prepare a new city map. The city map was engraved by the Hamburg copper engraver Franz Nikolaus Rolffsen and also sold separately. It was copied later and found wide distribution. The original copper plate of the engraving was still in the Lübeck city ​​library in 1936 . Möhring's plan was not replaced until 1824 by a new city map by Heinrich Ludwig Behrens .

In 1800 the Senate appointed him commandant of the Travemünde Citadel and promoted him to captain . Here he experienced, major since 1804 , the Battle of Lübeck in November 1806 and the subsequent French occupation . He was released by the French occupation forces and died in 1820 as an inmate of the Lübeck Holy Spirit Hospital .

Möhring had been a Freemason since November 1771 , initially in the Lodge at the Three Roses in Hamburg . In 1772 he was one of the founders of the first permanent Lübeck lodge Zum Fruchthorn , later Zum Füllhorn . He took on various offices; In 1777 he was the first overseer of the lodge. In 1779 he and others founded the second lodge in Lübeck, Zur Weltkugel, and became their first master of the chair . From 1775 to 1789 he was an honorary member of the Golden Ring Lodge in Glogau .

Works

Digital copy , Bavarian State Library
also separately as:
  • Floor plan by Lübeck / JG Möhring delineavit Lubecæ. FN Rolffsen et fil: Sculps: Hambg. Hamburg 1787 ( copper engraving , 32 × 48 cm)
  • Situation chart of the area of ​​the Gesthachter Schwartzen Ufer located on the Elb-Strohm and the incursion of the Elb-Strohm that happened there, including the silted up meadows, mountains of sand, pastures and the village of Besenhorst. 1789
Digital copy , Hamburg State and University Library
  • In the vicinity of Lübeck. With: View of the Burgthores. Berlin: Royal. Lith. Institute [around 1810] (lithograph 47 × 42.5 cm (high), sheet size 52 × 47.5 cm)

literature

  • Johannes Hennings: History of the Johannis Lodge "Zum Füllhorn" in Lübeck 1772-1922. Lübeck: Quitzow 1922
  • Karlheinz Gerlach: The Freemasons in Old Prussia 1738-1806: the lodges in Pomerania, Prussia and Silesia. 2009 ISBN 9783706543835 , p. 806

Web links

Commons : Johann Gottlieb Möhring  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Rahtgens : The Lübeck city maps of the 18th century. in: ZVLGA 28 (1936) ( digitalisat ), p. 343–, here p. 357
  2. ^ Hugo Rahtgens: The Lübeck city maps of the 18th century. in: ZVLGA 28 (1936) ( digitalisat ), p. 343–, here p. 344
  3. ↑ See his report to the Senate of November 11, 1806, reproduced in Vaterstädtische Blätter 1927/28 ( digitalisat ), p. 56
  4. ^ Hugo Rahtgens: The Lübeck city maps of the 18th century. in: ZVLGA 28 (1936) ( digitalisat ), p. 343–, here p. 357
  5. ↑ Gerlach (lit.)
personal data
SURNAME Möhring, Johann Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, cartographer and freemason
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1820
Place of death Lübeck