Johann Ludwig Hogrefe

Johann Ludewig Hogrewe , sometimes also Johann Ludwig Hogreve (or Hogrefe, Hograewe;) (* December 1, 1737 in Hanover ; † September 21, 1814 there ) was a German officer , teacher , engineer and cartographer in the 18th and 19th centuries.

biography

Hogrewe joined the Hanover engineering corps in 1759 and became an officer in 1763. According to another account, he did not become an ensign until 1774 and then rose to colonel until 1799 .

Before that, the engineering corps began in 1764, under the direction of their boss Georg Josua Du Plat , to map the area between Osterholz and Bremervörde because of a planned canal connection between the lower Weser and Elbe . After Hogrewe worked for the London-based Elector of Hanover and King of the United Kingdom, George III. , who had already worked on a map of “all of the German lands”, he became a topographer in Du Plat's engineering team in 1767.

Together with Christoph Georg Friedrich Pape, Hogrewe was in charge of the surveying of Harburg and proposed an expansion to map the entire country, which was then completed from 1767 to 1784 to form the Electorate of Hanover . Hogrewe described the procedures used in his “Practical Instructions for Topographical Surveying of an Entire Country” published in 1773.

At the same time he studied from 1767 to 1769 on behalf of George III. the canals and fortifications in England, the Netherlands, Lorraine and the Upper Rhine countries. Later he examined the Stecknitz Canal in the then Hanoverian Duchy of Lauenburg ; according to his plans u. a. In 1789 the still preserved Dückerschleuse was modernized.

On December 13, 1775, Hogrefe was accepted into the Masonic lodge Zum Schwarzen Bär .

From 1780 to 1784, Hogrewe became a prince teacher and held high offices in the mapping sector. In 1785 he became head of the pontooning and pioneer company in Hanover and in 1787 co-director of the Osnabrück cadastral survey .

In 1785 the cartographer became a corresponding member of the Göttingen Society of Sciences .

On January 9, 1799, Hogrewe acquired the citizenship of the city of Hanover and in 1800 published a plan (copperplate) of the old and new town and its surroundings .

Hogrewe remained unmarried. His grave is in Hanover's garden cemetery .

Works (selection)

Hogrewe wrote numerous textbooks and works, including

• 1772: Situation plan of the city and fortress Haarburg: documented in the Duchy of Lüneburg on the liniken bank of the Elbe by the influence of the Seve of the Imperial Freyen Imperial City of Hamburg against / measured by: Hogreve ...
  • Reproduction 2001 in: Hamburg in the map of the past. Contribution to a historical atlas , Hamburg: Association for Hamburg History (Building Authority, Office for Geoinformation and Surveying, Map Distribution)
• City and fortress Harburg and its surroundings in 1772. Situation plan of the city and fortress Harburg show in the Duchy of Lüneburg on the left bank of the Elbe with the influence of the Seve of the imperial Freyen Imperial City of Hamburg opposite / after the survey by JL Hogreve and CF Pape , Part 2
  • Reproduction 2001 in: Hamburg in the map of the past. Contribution to a historical atlas , Hamburg: Association for Hamburg History (Building Authority, Office for Geoinformation and Surveying, Map Distribution)
• 1773: Practical instruction for the topographical survey of an entire country
• 1774: Detailed story, including floor plans of the siege of the Schweidnitz fortress by the royal prussians. Troops from August 7th to October 9th, 1762 ,
• 1780: Description of the navigable canals laid out in England since 1759 and now largely completed, to the inner community of the most distinguished trading cities
• 1785: Theoretical and practical instruction for military recording or surveying in the field
• 1797: Practical instruction for planimetric measurement of the field marks: and how the maps are to be worked out, calculated and the measurement registers to be set up , Johann Thomas Lamminger , 1797
• 1800: Plan of the cities of Hanover and Calenberger Neustadt and their surroundings
  • Reproduction 1991: Hanover 1800 on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the state capital Hanover / ed. by JL Hogrewe. Engraver: JF Saltzenberg , Hanover: Lower Saxony State Administration Office, State Surveying , 1991

literature

• Dirk Böttcher : Hogrefe (Hogreve, Hograewe), Johann Ludwig, In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 175 ( online ).
• Walter Großmann :  Hogrefe (Hograewe), Johann Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 475 ( digitized version ).
• Hinrich Hesse: The grave inscriptions of the Gartenkirchhof in Hanover, In: Journal of the Society for Lower Saxony Church History, Vol. 44 (1939), pp. 235–290.
• Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 5, p. 136.
• Franz Rudolf Zankl : Hanover's city plan and its representation, In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , Vol. 32 (1978), pp. 95–154.

Web links

Commons : Johann Ludewig Hogrewe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kurhannoversche Landesaufnahme (LGN)
• Description of the Harburg map sheet and its surroundings in 1772 (PDF; 1.9 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Dirk Böttcher : Hogrefe (Hogreve, Hograewe), Johann Ludwig. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 175 ( online ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Description of the Harburg map sheet and the area around 1772 (PDF; 1.9 MB)
3. ^ State Office for Geoinformation and Land Development Lower Saxony (LGLN): Kurhannoversche Landesaufnahme des 18. Century.
4. ^ Siegfried Schildmacher, Winfried Brinkmann, Edzard Bakker, Peter Rosenstein (ed.): Johann Ludwig Hogrefe. In: Siegfried Schildmacher (Ed.): In the footsteps of the Freemasons. A walk through Hanover's streets , self-published, Hanover 2015, p. 75.