Richard von Detten

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Richard von Detten (born July 12, 1838 in Werne , † December 28, 1906 in Clausthal ) was a German mining official .

Life

Detten was a son of the Court of Appeal and Privy Councilor of Justice Franz Arnold von Detten (1802–1886) and his wife Maria von dem Busch. His grandfather was Johann Arnold Otto von dem Busch , the consistorial councilor and chief magistrate of Hildesheim . He spent his youth in Paderborn , where his father worked at the appellate court. After graduating from high school in Paderborn, he first began studying theology at the University of Bonn in the winter semester of 1855/56 , but later switched to mining and in 1857 took the tentamen (preliminary examination) at the Dortmund Oberbergamt . Further studies followed in Berlin in 1858/59, followed by several years of practical work in mining. In 1865 Detten passed the legal traineeship and became a mountain trainee at the Oberbergamt Dortmund. From 1868 he was a mountain assessor and was employed as an unskilled worker in the ministry and at the mining academy in Berlin.

From November 1, 1872, Detten had been the mine director at the hard coal works on the Deister and made a contribution to both the expansion of production and the welfare of the workers. In 1880 it was made a mountain ridge and in 1890 an upper mountain ridge. In 1892 he moved to Halle (Saale) as a technical member of the Oberbergamt , where he was mainly involved in potash and rock salt mining. His sphere of activity extended beyond the narrower Oberbergamtsgebiet to Bavaria, Württemberg, Mecklenburg and the Thuringian states. Appointed as a secret mountain ridge in 1899, Detten became mining captain and chief mining authority in Clausthal in 1902, succeeding Adolf Achenbach . The entire mining and smelting operations in the Upper Mining District, including the beginning of oil production, were subordinate to him.

He died of cardiac paralysis in late 1906 and was buried in the north cemetery in Halle (Saale) .

Awards

  • Red Eagle Order IV Class (1889)
  • Order of the Red Eagle III. Class with the loop
  • Prussian Crown Order II class
  • Commander's Cross 2nd class of the Brunswick Order of Henry the Lion
  • Cross of Honor 2nd class of the Schaumburg-Lippian House Order

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Noble houses B Volume III. Glücksburg 1958, p. 132ff

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personal data
SURNAME Detten, Richard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mountain official
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Werne
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1906
Place of death Clausthal