Johann Nikolaus Fürsen-Bachmann

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Johann Nikolaus von Fürsen-Bachmann (born July 31, 1798 in Tangsholm on Alsen , † February 21, 1894 in Schleswig ) was a German colonel.

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Johann Nikolaus Fürsen-Bachmann was a son of Hardesvogts Ernst Georg Joachim Fürsen . He had four sisters and six brothers, including Hardesvogt Cai Werner Fürsen . During his childhood and youth, which he spent on Alsen, he learned from private tutors and seminarians. With the help of a scholarship from Duchess Luise Augusta von Augustenburg , he went to the cadet corps in Copenhagen .

From 1812 to 1816 Fürsen-Bachmann studied at a cadet school. At the end of 1816 he joined the Reuter body regiment as a lieutenant . In 1818 he moved to Schleswig as a second lieutenant, where he got engaged to his cousin Juliane von Bachmann (born August 26, 1800 in Schleswig; † February 15, 1898 ibid) and was therefore acceptable. Juliane von Bachmann was a daughter of Lieutenant General Hans von Bachmann and his wife Margarethe Catharina Caroline, widowed Harssen, née Fürsen, who was a daughter of the personal physician Joachim Fürsen . Both married on October 2, 1824. The marriage remained childless.

On July 13, 1823, Friedrich VI. Fürsen-Bachmann as a Danish nobleman. In the rank of prime lieutenant, he took on an apprenticeship at the Schleswig cavalry school. From 1831 he officiated as their head. Fürsen-Bachmann appealed to his students' own sense of honor in order to refrain from harsh treatments. He largely suspended the corporal punishment that had been practiced up until then. Until 1842 he worked as head of the drill school of the cuirassiers body regiment.

Although Christian VIII reduced the number of soldiers, Fürsen-Bachmann took over the second squadron of the 1st Schleswig Dragoon Regiment in 1842. Since two thirds of the soldiers were Danish officers, tensions between German and Danish soldiers already arose in the regiment when Fürsen-Bachmann took office. These conflicts increased by 1848.

March 24, 1848 became the most important day in Fürsen-Bachmann's life. On this day the Provisional Government met in Kiel . Fürsen-Bachmann learned on the morning of that day that the troops from Holstein had allied themselves with the government, whereupon he arranged for a large majority of the soldiers in Schleswig to also place themselves under the command of the new government.

During the Schleswig-Holstein uprising , Fürsen-Bachmann headed the regiment under his command as a lieutenant colonel. His service ended on January 28, 1851. Since he was a Vormärz officer, the Danes did not grant him an amnesty after the end of the war, after which he went into exile in Hamburg and spent 13 years there. During this time he continuously campaigned for officers from Schleswig-Holstein to receive pensions. For this he spoke unsuccessfully to Friedrich Wilhelm IV. And the Bundestag in Frankfurt. He then traveled through Germany in 1853 with Carl Friedrich von Jess and obtained financial support for poor officers.

In 1864 Fürsen-Bachmann moved back to Schleswig with his wife. He lived until the end of his life on “Fürsens Hof” in Gottorpstraße 4.

literature

  • Ernst Joachim Fürsen : Fürsen-Bachmann, Johann Nikolaus von . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 2. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1971, pp. 103-104