Karl Baring

Karl Baring , formerly also Carl Baring (born October 2, 1803 in Göttingen , † February 23, 1868 in Obershagen ) was a Protestant - Lutheran pastor , writer and genealogist .

family

Baring was the son of the post office clerk Georg Friedrich August Baring (1768–1823) and Georgine Friedrike Eleonore geb. Goal (1777-1826). Baring married Emilie born on September 13, 1829 in Burgdorf. Schneider (1807-1863). The Baring couple had eight children, including William Georg Ernst Baring and Natalie Eleonore Helene Baring

Live and act

Baring attended high school in Göttingen from 1819 and enrolled in 1821 to study theology at the University of Göttingen . Baring experienced the emigration of the Göttingen student body and the violent argument with the police and authorities, so that he too moved to a nearby village outside the city, where he lived in a pastor's house. In the summer of 1822, Baring's engagement to the daughter of a lawyer took place , but it was dissolved again in the fall of 1824. From Easter 1824 Baring was tutor in the family of the lawyer and assessor Meyer in Bergen near Celle for a year .

After a good theological exam , Baring was first rector in Burgdorf , and from 1834 pastor in Obershagen near Burgdorf in the church inspection department in Celle. In Obershagen he was interested and committed to the economic interests of his community, including a. when dividing the district. He had also recognized achievements in raising the income of farmers in agriculture . In 1848 he welcomed the revolution that had broken out and arrived in Celle on March 20. On March 31 of the same year he wrote:

“Whoever wants freedom for himself must also want it for others. I would therefore like to shout out loud into the country: Great Germany unite you in freedom, but release Poland, Italy, Slavonia, Hungary, which only paralyze your strength! "

On April 19, 1848, Baring wrote a petition to the Estates Assembly in favor of the workers . On February 17, 1849, Baring gave a speech at the people's assembly in Burgdorf against individual provisions of the planned new imperial fundamental rights. In 1853 he criticized the fact that "the theological world had changed in such a way that among 50 preachers there was hardly a single rationalist " . In February 1864 he was one of the signatories of an appeal by the Protestant Church of the Kingdom of Hanover to the clergy of the Duchy of Holstein , who were refused by the Danish King Christian IX. required homagial oath to have committed themselves to the rights of their country.

Baring worked on the genealogy of his family and, as a writer , published parables , short stories and stories as well as obituaries in the Neue Nekrolog der Deutschen . He left handwritten memories of his childhood and youth as well as several diaries from later times, some of which have been lost. Diaries from the 1840s and 1850s have been preserved.

literature

• Adolf Baring : The Baring family, in particular the Hanoverian line, with 22 illustrations and a coat of arms in: German Roland Book for Gender Studies , published by the "Roland" Association for the Promotion of Stamm-, Wappen- und Siegelkunde EV, 1st volume, Dresden 1918, P. 7ff.

Individual evidence

1. ^ State and address calendar for the Kingdom of Hanover for the year 1835 , digitized version of the Bavarian State Library, p. 363.
2. ↑ Other declarations of the Protestant clergy in Germany outside of Schleswig-Holstein in: Acts of the universities and the clergy of Germany in the Schleswig-Holstein state matter, in 3 departments , III. Department, Verlag Ernst Homann, Kiel 1865, digitized version on Google Books, pp. 208f.
3. ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 17th year, 1839, 1st part, Weimar 1841, digitized on Google Books, pp. XV and 557.