Otto Ludwig jug from Nidda

Otto Ludwig Krug von Nidda (born December 16, 1810 in Sangerhausen , † February 8, 1885 in Berlin ) was a Prussian civil servant and made a special contribution to the development of mining .

Life

The son of the Prussian district administrator Christian Krug von Nidda attended the Eisleben mountain school from 1828 to 1830 and completed his practical training in the copper slate pits of the Schafbreiter Revier and the Mansfeld huts and later in the coal mines of Wettin and Löbejün . He then studied for a year and a half in Berlin and then went on instruction trips to Iceland, where he was to investigate the sulfur deposits and published several papers on the geology of Iceland, to the Ore Mountains and to Silesia. After being accepted as a mountain trainee in 1834, he entered the service of the Mining Authority in Suhl in 1835 and became a driver in 1837 and a senior driver in the Lower Silesian Mining Authority in Waldenburg in 1839 . In 1841 he was transferred to the Upper Silesian Mining Authority in Tarnowitz . As a mountain foreman , he was a works clerk in several Upper Silesian mines from 1843 and gave lessons at the mountain school in Tarnowitz. In 1849 he was accepted as a member of the newly founded German Geological Society .

In 1850, Krug von Nidda became director of mining and mining in Halberstadt , from 1851 to 1853 he worked in this position in Siegen and then moved to Breslau as Oberbergrat . In 1854 he was called to go. Bergrat and lecturing council in the Ministry of Commerce. After being promoted to ministerial commissioner in 1856, he was appointed ministerial director in 1860, head of the ministry's department for mining, metallurgy and saltworks and the “real secret upper mountain ridge”. As such, he played a major role in the boom in Prussian mining and in the re-establishment of the Bergakademie Berlin .

In 1865 he was appointed chief miner, in 1867 he was a member of the constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation for the constituency of Trier 5 ( Saarbrücken ). From 1871 to 1874 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the same constituency. He belonged to the free conservative German Reich Party .

Krug von Nidda retired in 1878 and was honored with the Order of the Red Eagle 1st Class with Oak Leaves on this occasion .

Otto Ludwig Krug von Nidda died in Berlin in 1885 at the age of 74 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . In the course of the leveling of the cemetery carried out by the National Socialists in 1938/1939, Krug von Nidda's remains were reburied in a collective grave in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Publications

Geognostic treatise on Iceland . In: Karstens Archive for Mineralogy ... Volumes 7 and 9, Berlin 1834 and 1836

literature

Hanns Freydank: Krug von Nidda, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 116 f. ( Digitized version ).
Wilhelm von Gümbel : Krug von Nidda, Otto . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 640 f.

Web links

Commons : Otto Ludwig Krug von Nidda - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Biography on the website of the miners' association "Otto Ludwig Krug von Nidda" eV Erfurt
Krug von Nidda, Otto in the database of the members of the Reichstag
Biography of Otto von Krug von Nidda . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

^ Journal of the German Geological Society, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1849, p. 40 List of the members of the DGG 1849
↑ Haßlacher, A .: The coal mining of the Prussian state in the vicinity of Saarbrücken. Part II: Historical development of hard coal mining in the Saar area : Berlin and Heidelberg 1904, footnote p. 141
↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 204, short biography p. 429.
^ Deutsche-biographie.de: Krug von Nidda, Otto
^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 179.
^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. pp. 304, 472.

personal data
SURNAME	Jug from Nidda, Otto Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mountain ridge and politician (DFP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	December 16, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sangerhausen
DATE OF DEATH	February 8, 1885
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Journal of the German Geological Society, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1849, p. 40 List of the members of the DGG 1849

[2] Haßlacher, A .: The coal mining of the Prussian state in the vicinity of Saarbrücken. Part II: Historical development of hard coal mining in the Saar area : Berlin and Heidelberg 1904, footnote p. 141

[3] Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 204, short biography p. 429.

[4] Deutsche-biographie.de: Krug von Nidda, Otto

[5] Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 179.

[6] Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. pp. 304, 472.