List of Prussian miners
The mines, or chief mining is the respective top officials of a mining authority . In the Kingdom of Prussia , which is large in terms of area , there were several upper mining offices , whose jurisdiction was divided as follows under the General Mining Act for the Prussian States of June 24, 1865 :
- Oberbergamt Breslau for the provinces of Silesia , Poznan and Prussia
- Oberbergamt Halle for the provinces of Saxony , Brandenburg and Pomerania
- Oberbergamt Dortmund for the province of Westphalia with the exception of a few areas and of the Rhine province the districts of Nees, Duisburg and Essen as well as parts of the districts of Düsseldorf and Elberfeld. From 1866 also parts of the newly formed province of Hanover .
- Oberbergamt Bonn for the Rhine province with the exception of the aforementioned districts, from the province of Westphalia the Duchy of Westphalia, the counties Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein and Wittgenstein-Berleburg, the Principality of Siegen and the offices of Burbach and Neunkirchen as well as the Hohenzollern Lands . From 1866 the Duchy of Nassau .
- Oberbergamt Clausthal for the newly formed provinces of Hanover (with exceptions) and Schleswig-Holstein as well as the former Electorate of Hesse .
Miners Captains (selection)
Oberberghauptmannschaft in Berlin
| image | Surname | Years of office | Remarks |
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Friedrich Anton von Heynitz | 1777-1802 | |
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Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden | 1802-1803 | 1779–1802 Silesian Mining Authority, later Prussian Mining Minister |
| Johann Carl Ludewig Gerhard | 1810-1835 | ||
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Franz von Veltheim | 1835-1839 | |
| Ernst August von Beust | 1840-1848 | 1817–1840 Oberbergamt Bonn | |
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Ernst Heinrich von Dechen | 1859/1860 | Interim. He was also allowed to use the title of chief miner in Bonn, where he went back. |
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Otto Ludwig jug from Nidda | 1860-1878 | Chief miner only from 1865. Before that, it was a real secret upper mountain ridge. |
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Albert Serlo | 1878-1884 | |
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August Huyssen | 1884-1891 | |
| Theodor Freund | 1891-1900 | ||
| Gustav von Velsen | 1900-1917 | ||
| Richard Althans | 1917-1923 | ||
| Karl Schantz | 1923-1928 | ||
| Ernst Flemming | 1928-1933 | ||
| Erich Winnacker | 1933– |
Mining authorities at the chief mining offices
| image | Surname | Oberbergamt | Years of office | title | Remarks |
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| Ernst Heinrich von Dechen | Bonn | 1841-1864 | Miner captain | ||
| Hermann Brassert | Bonn | 1864-1892 | Miner captain | In 1878 appointment as chief miner in Berlin refused for personal reasons | |
| Johann Friedrich Hermann Pinno | Wroclaw | November 1, 1891 - October 1, 1896 | Miner captain | ||
| Karl August von Linsingen | Clausthal | 1859-1867 | Miner captain | ||
| Adolf Achenbach | Clausthal | 1878-1900 | Miner captain | ||
| Otto Taeglichsbeck | Dortmund | 1769-1785 | Miner captain | ||
| Toussaint by Charpentier | 1830-1847 | Miner captain | Oberbergamt Dortmund, Silesian Oberbergamt | ||
| Karl von Oeynhausen | 1847-1864 | Miner captain | Silesian Upper Mining Office, 1855 Upper Mining Office Dortmund | ||
| August von Schoenaich-Carolath | Dortmund | 1863-1888 | Miner captain | ||
| Johann Gustav Brassert | Hall | 1851-1857 | Miner captain | ||
| Georg Gante | ? - October 1, 1924 | Miner captain | |||
| Carl Christian Septimus von Veltheim | ? -? | Miner captain |