Johann Ludewig Engelhard Brinckmann

Johann Ludewig Engelhard Brinckmann (* 1753 or 1754, presumably in the Harz Mountains , † May 20, 1822 in Wohldorf ) was a German forester and forest bailiff .

Life

Johann Ludewig Engelhard Brinckmann came from a forest ranger family. His grandfather, Johann Gerhard Brinckmann, was a forester in Altenau , his father, Christian Günther Brinckmann, was a forester in Lautenthal .

In 1780 Brinckmann married Caroline Dorothea von Dachenhausen. The marriage resulted in four daughters and two sons. Karl Heinrich Ludwig Brinckmann was one of his grandchildren, Justus Brinckmann one of his great-grandchildren.

Act

In 1778 Brinckmann took a job as a district hunter and district assistant in the Koberg forest district and in 1781 took over responsibility for the Mühlenrade forestry department . In 1783 he participated in linkages in Talkau , in 1790 in land consolidations in Fuhlenhagen .

On October 12, 1797, the city council and citizenship of Hamburg decided to employ Brinckmann as a forester and forest guard. Brinckmann succeeded Christian Ludwig Schröder, who had been employed since 1785 and who had not met the expectations placed on him. After being sworn in on February 28, 1798, his area of ​​responsibility included forestry in the forest villages . He also represented the councilors who acted as forest gentlemen, who were only occasionally on site. He was therefore the main representative of the city and administration in the forest villages and advised on forest issues in other parts of Hamburg. In addition, the forest riders from Volksdorf and Großhansdorf and the lock masters of the Alster were subordinate to him .

Brinckmann lived in the Waldvogtei established in 1703 on the edge of the Wohldorfer Forest and received a basic salary of 1000 Courant marks in the first year of service  . Since the salary was increased to 2500 Marks Courant in 1803, it can be assumed that the forest owners and combing citizens assessed Brinckmann's activities positively. Brinckmann aligned wood production in Hamburg for the first time according to the principles of sustainable forestry and made efforts to improve the forest. In addition, he assessed timber stocks, timber sales and forest offenses. Many of these reports have survived to this day. Between 1799 and 1807 he worked on land consolidation in the forest villages and put the boundaries of forest districts in Volksdorf, Wohldorf-Ohlstedt and Großhansdorf with firmly. When the Patriotic Society feared a shortage of wood, Brinckmann wrote the “Plan for the Planting of New Forests near Hamburg” in 1798. In contrast to other experts, he advocated the planting of conifers, especially pine and spruce .

From 1799, Brinckmann planted heather in the south of the Volksdorf forest area with pines. From 1802 he laid out a new pine forest of around 56 hectares in Langenhorn . The Ochsenzoll Clinic was later built in the area known as the “Tannenkoppel” . In 1811, Brinckmann created a cadastre for the first time that contained information on the size and nature of Hamburg's forests. During the French period in Hamburg from 1811 to 1814, Brinckmann was subordinate to a "Conservateur des eaux et forêt" and worked as a chief forester in the Hamburg arrondissement with the title "Garde génerale". In addition, he officially took over the supervision of the forest areas of the spiritual foundations of Hamburg. In 1813/14, residents and occupiers cut down large areas of forest in Langenhorn, Groß Borstel and Barmbeck, which Brinckmann was unable to prevent. In 1815 he proposed to reforest the Gojenberg in Bergedorf on an area of ​​33 hectares with pine trees. However, this plan was not implemented. In 1821, the head of the St. Johannis Monastery of Brinckmann agreed to repeated proposals for the creation of a coniferous forest. From 1822 onwards, the “Borsteler Jäger”, later popular as a destination, was created.

After his death in 1822, his grandson Johann Carl Ludwig Schellhammer took over Brinckmann's duties.

literature

• Hans Walden: Brinckmann, Johann Ludewig Engelhard . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 60-61 .