Nicolaus Dierling

Nicolaus Dierling (* around 1735 in Bartelshagen II near Barth ; † August 3, 1801 in Damgarten ) was a shipbuilder and shipyard manager in Damgarten.

Life

Dierling comes from the Bartelshagen-based family Dierling, also known as Döring or Düring. The oldest family member that can be verified here is Bartold / Barthel, the father of Nikolaus, whose first wife, whose name was not known, died in Bartelshagen in 1740. She must have been the mother of Nikolaus. The father married a second time, Barbara Örgel, who also died in Bartelshagen in 1768. At this point the father was still alive.

The year of birth of Nikolaus Dierling is not known. His full name is Johann (Hans) Niclas Barthold Dierling. The first certain date is that of his consecration in Lüdershagen in 1747. Since he must have been around 11 to 15 years old at the time, his year of birth will have been around 1735.

Dierling received his first school education from the pastor in Lüdershagen, where Bartelshagen was parish. Details are not known about this. He took an apprenticeship as a shipbuilder in Stralsund with the British-born, Swedish shipbuilder Frederik Henrik af Chapman (1721-1808), who worked for Swedish Pomerania at the time and ran a shipyard there from 1760 to 1762. Chapman is known to carry out his work with the help of flow experiments, which he was able to do through his occupation with mathematics and physics. He laid out his principles in his book "Architectura Navalis Mercatoria", printed in Stockholm in 1768 with numerous construction plans (reprints and translations in 1775, 1781 and numerous recent editions). To what extent Dierling was influenced by this cannot be said. There is evidence that Nicolaus Dierling lived in Damgarten in 1764.

In 1764 Dierling took over the Damgarter shipyard Marx und Krüger, which he led into a flourishing company. Mainly ships of the galeas , schooner and brig types were built here. Dierling's Damgarter Werft also worked through other master shipbuilders there who learned here, such as Johann Carl Peters and Julius Miedbrodt, both of whom also came from Bartelshagen. Dierling also led the shipyard through the difficult time of the continental blockade , which was oppressive for shipbuilding. After Nikolaus Dierling's death, the shipyard was managed by his sons Johann Daniel and Heinrich until 1880. She stopped her work as a result of growing competition from steel shipbuilding.

Shipbuilding, in which Dierling had a not insignificant share, became an important branch of the economy in Damgarten with shipyards and smaller shipbuilding sites next to the port.

Nikolaus Dierling had been married to Catharina Maria Ewert from Bartelshagen since 1761, and died in Damgarten in 1785, shortly after the delivery of one of their children. Dierling died in Damgarten on August 3, 1801 as a "citizen and shipbuilder".

His brother Jacob Bogislav, born in Bartelshagen in 1724, died before 1792, is initially mentioned as a resident in Langenhanshagen , but was later also in Damgarten, where he was referred to as Bürger and Ackermann. He was married to Dorothea Hamann from Bartelshagen. Today's Dierling family in Damgarten descends from Jacob Bogislav.

With effect from February 1, 2015, the then Hessenburger Strasse in Bartelshagen was renamed Nikolaus-Dierling-Strasse.

Sources: Church registers from Lüdershagen, Langenhanshagen and Damgarten; Baptism, confirmation, marriage and burial registers