Johann Ludwig Möhring

Johann Ludwig Möhring (born February 18, 1760 in Jever ; † June 7, 1835 ) was the Grand Ducal Oldenburg Privy Councilor in Jever and co-founder of the local fire society.

His parents were the councilor and personal physician Paul Heinrich Gerhard Möhring and his wife Juliane Damm.

Life

He graduated from the Ulricianum grammar school in Aurich . In 1778 he enrolled at the University of Göttingen , where he studied law. In 1781 he returned to Jever and was after an examination as a lawyer admitted. He then practiced in his hometown for 18 years. During this time he was also appointed to the Privy Council. In 1799 he received the post of civil servant in Tettens from the princess of Jever . He stayed there even when the Dutch occupied East Frisia in 1806. He was supposed to collect contributions amounting to 2 million thalers when the Jever lordship was combined with East Frisia to form the department of East Frisia. In 1808 he was present at the conference in Aurich when the burden was distributed. In 1811, when the French came to power, he lost his job. He was now an assistant judge and in 1812 a member of the tribunal in Jever. After the expulsion of the French in 1813, the Duke appointed him on October 1, 1814, as district court assessor of the new district court of Jever.

When the first assessor took his leave on November 9, 1821, he became his successor until he, too, gave up the position on August 28, 1826. He was then appointed to the chancellery and chairman of the General Army Inspectorate in Jever. On July 24, 1832, he was passed into retirement as a judicial councilor. On January 3, 1834, he was appointed privy councilor by the Grand Duke. Möhring died unmarried after a short illness.

He had a prosperous legal practice. From 1782 he began to expand a small wood near his country house near Jever, called God's Chamber . He had various types of fruit grown there, making him a role model in the area. He also bought the surrounding moors in order to drain them and convert them into pastureland.

On October 31, 1794, he was one of the founders of a fire insurance policy for the Jever lordship, the statutes of which he also drafted. But it was not until November 10, 1819 that the statutes in Oldenburg were confirmed.

literature

• New Nekrolog der Deutschen , p. 586, digitized

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Georg Hassel, General. European State u. Address Handbuch , 1816, p. 416, digitized
2. ^ Ludwig Kohli, handbook of a historical-statistical-geographical description of the duchy of Oldenburg, including the inheritance of Jever , p. 354, digitized version