Johann Peter Kling

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Johann Peter Kling (* 8. March 1749 in Hergenfeld ; † 17th December 1808 in Probfeld ) was a Palatine-Bavarian Forest officials and Donaumoos pioneer .

Life

Kling was born as the son of the teacher Konrad Kling and was baptized Catholic. The parents soon moved to the southern part of the Electoral Palatinate , Johann Peter received a higher education in Speyer , Mannheim and Wetzlar . Presumably he studied mathematics and camera science , because in 1774 he became a mathematics professor at the electoral pagerie . In 1780 he joined the economic administration of the Electoral Palatinate and took over the management of the newly established Hofforstkammer as forest commissioner. Entrusted by Elector Karl Theodor with the regulation of all forest matters, he advanced to the leading forest specialist in the Electoral Palatinate between 1783 and 1795.

Since 1795 director of the forest chamber in Munich , in 1796, as the basis for a Bavarian forest reform, Kling presented a “file-based history of forest surveying in Bavaria” and the instructions for the forest officials, in which he contributed his experience. Due to his reputation as an expert for all questions of soil cultivation, he was also involved in the drainage and cultivation of the Danube moss from 1796. He took on this task as a civil servant - and he bought himself in the Donaumoos by - probably in 1801 - first 60 days of agricultural land and soon afterwards 40 additional days of agricultural land, which he called "Probfeld" and cultivated from a newly built farm. The reason for this direct commitment was the great moor fire of 1800.

His soil science experience, combined with the most modern agricultural knowledge at the time, led the Probfeld company to success. Elector Maximilian Joseph - the first King of Bavaria since 1806 - praised Kling's initiative to “establish agriculture according to suitable and higher principles at no cost to the state and thereby spread it by means of example and visual evidence.” Appointed on February 22, 1802 the elector Kling, who has meanwhile been promoted to director of the General Land Directorate, to “intermediary”, that is to say, to the organizer for the settlement of the drained Danube moss. Even during his lifetime, the Moos inhabitants gave him the title of nobility "von" Kling, which was never given by the sovereign but which is still used in Moos today.

Kling died of nervous fever and was buried in Karlskron ; his grave no longer exists.

Honors

Klingsmoos , founded in 1822 as Theresienfeld , was renamed by King Ludwig I in 1831 in his honor. The place, formerly communally independent, has been part of the newly formed Königsmoos municipality since January 1, 1975 .

On October 25, 2008 (200th year of death) a memorial stone for Kling was erected in front of the St. Josef Church in Klingsmoos.

In Grosskarolinenfeld , where he also participated in the moss cultivation, a street was named after him

literature

  • Description of a culture experiment in the Donaumoos , 1806

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to the biography of the Hergenfeld parish
  2. ↑ The Königsmoos community names March 28, 1749 as their birthday
  3. ↑ Dieter Ackermann: The Probfeld des Johann Peter Kling - A Government Official Becomes Farmer, Hergenfeld Public Gazette, January 23, 2003 , accessed on March 11, 2018
  4. ↑ On the naming of Klingsmoos in memory of Johann Peter von Kling
  5. ^ Ceremony for the erection of the memorial stone , accessed on March 11, 2018
  6. ^ Vita von Kling in the Neuburger Rundschau , accessed on March 11, 2018

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personal data
SURNAME Kling, Johann Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kling, Johann Peter Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palatinate-Bavarian forest officer and Danube pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH Hergenfeld
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1808
Place of death Probfeld