Karl August von Linsingen

Karl August von Linsingen (born August 3, 1803 in Gestorf ; † December 30, 1899 in Göttingen ) was a Hanoverian administrative officer and mining captain in Clausthal .

Life

Karl August von Linsingen was the son of the Hanoverian General of the Cavalry and Adjudant General Ernst von Linsingen and his wife Emilie von Jeinsen . Linsingen studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1822 to 1825 , where he became a member of the Corps Hannovera . After completing his studies, he entered the civil service of the Kingdom of Hanover and was employed as a civil servant in Nienburg, Gifhorn and Grohnde. In 1840 he became chamber councilor in Hanover and in 1845 first official in Burgdorf . From 1859 Karl von Linsingen was the mining captain of the Clausthal mining authority , which after the annexation of Hanover by Prussia in 1866 was initially continued as the Prussian district of Clausthal and in 1868 was incorporated into the Landdrostei Hildesheim , later the district of Hildesheim . During his tenure, the Ernst-August-Stollen , begun by his predecessor, Mining Captain Gerlach von dem Knesebeck , was completed and the mining school was upgraded to the Clausthal mining academy in 1864 . He was a member of the Hanover State Council . Linsingen retired in 1867.

Karl von Linsingen was married to Bertha Wilhelmine von Gruben for the first time in 1833 and had three sons with her, including Ernst Otto von Linsingen (1834–1920), later mayor of Uelzen and member of the provincial parliament. In 1841 he married Mathilde von Schwarzkopf for the second time, with whom he had a daughter.

literature

• Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography , Volume 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1886, Sponholtz, Hanover 1914, p. 555
• Heinrich F. Curschmann: Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen, Volume 1: 1809-1899 Göttingen 2000, No. 254

Individual evidence

1. ^ Enrollment in Göttingen on April 27, 1822