Sebastian Eberhard Jhering

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Sebastian Eberhard Jhering (born May 8, 1700 in Friedeburg , † January 29, 1759 in Aurich ) was a German legal scholar and Prussian government director in East Friesland . He was the great-grandfather of the famous legal scholar Rudolf von Jhering .

parents

Jhering comes from the old Jhering family of lawyers . His parents were the bailiff of Friedeburg Sebastian Jhering (1658-1730) and Anna Magdalena Pauli (1664-1733).

Life

Jhering studied in Jena . In 1726 he was his father's adjunct in the drainage of the Wiesedermeer . In 1730 he became a councilor, consistorial councilor and chancellery in Aurich, and from 1735 chamber councilor. He worked under Chancellor Brenneysen (1669–1734). Until the death of the last East Frisian prince Carl Edzard in 1744, Jhering was a driving force in the government. Many of his ideas were not realized by him, but only later by others, but they show his vision. In 1739 Jhering planned a navigable waterway between Aurich and Emden ; the plan was implemented in 1798 as a low-level trek . Jhering also suggested a border line in the Dollart to end the disputes. The border should go from the mouth of the Westerwolder Aa to the tower of the Emden Castle . When the Hanoverian-Dutch border treaty was concluded in 1824 , in which this solution was chosen, no one knew of Jhering's idea. The position of government director was created for Jhering in 1746, a unique title as the Prussian administration actually did not know this. It may have had something to do with his special position, as he was also head of the Collegium Medicum at the time . In 1757 he was retired.

Act

With the takeover of East Frisia by Prussia, Jhering was able to implement his plans to settle the country better. He was the spiritual father of Urbarmachungsedikt and created the legal basis for the claim of the state to the barren areas far from the East Frisian farmers through the Upsteekrecht were claimed.

Jhering had already written a memorandum on the subject of reclamation in 1737. When the Prussian War and Domain Chamber was introduced in East Friesland in 1744 , it was taken over there. The apolitical Jhering reigned virtually alone, since the chancellor himself Homfeld and the chamber director Ironing fought. But it was not until 1750 that his report on the “reclamation of new countries” reached Berlin . In 1756 the Seven Years War temporarily ended these activities.

Jhering was also privately engaged in the reclamation. In 1744 he bought what was then Hookster Fehn , which was founded in 1660. He and his descendants invested considerable parts of their wealth in the place, which was named Jheringsfehn from 1754 .

family

Jhering married Catharina Elisabeth Damm (August 2, 1715 - February 25, 1756) from Leer in 1734 . The couple had several sons and a daughter:

  • The lawyer Caspar Rudolf (born January 12, 1740; † May 12, 1809), married to Adelheid Catharine Bacmeister (born August 15, 1745; † July 15, 1785)
  • The lawyer Anton Lorenz (Laurenz) Konrad (born March 27, 1741; † November 29, 1788), he married Anna Maria Hoppe (born September 9, 1751; † April 18, 1835); Daughter of Superintendent Hoppe, Esens .
  • Rebecca Katharina (* June 6, 1738; † May 27, 1794) was married to the postmaster (later mayor of Aurich) Tobias Hieronymus Tjaden (* 1730; † May 7, 1805)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Jhering, Sebastian Eberhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ihering, Sebastian Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian government director in East Frisia
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1700
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedeburg
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1759
Place of death Aurich