Wilhelm Niebour

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Johann Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Niebour (born October 2, 1813 in Hanover , † December 31, 1895 in Bremen ) was a German colonel and , as a politician, a member of the Oldenburg state parliament .

Life

Niebour was born as the eldest son of the later tax director Johann Conrad Niebour (1786–1849) and his wife Christiane Ernestine Wilhelmine, née. Heyn (1792–1873) born in Hanover. The family lived in Oldenburg , where the father worked in the tax administration from 1811 and rose to the position of tax director at the court chamber . As a sideline he worked as a farmer. Niebour and his nine siblings grew up on their father Mansholt's estate near Wiefelstede . He was tutored by private tutors and entered the Oldenburg military service in 1828 at the age of fourteen. In 1833 he was promoted to lieutenant and in the same year entered the Prussian War Academy , which he attended until 1836. In 1839 he received a brief training in engraving and lithography of maps at the military lithography school in Paris . In 1840 he returned to Oldenburg as an adjutant with the Oldenburg Infantry and at the same time taught at the local military school. In 1841 he was promoted to first lieutenant and in 1846 to captain . In 1848 he took part as a company commander in the Oldenburg contingent campaign against Denmark during the Schleswig-Holstein uprising . In 1849, for personal and family reasons, he was transferred to the 5th (light) battalion in the Principality of Birkenfeld, which belongs to Oldenburg . In autumn 1854 he returned to Oldenburg.

Niebour represented liberal, free-spirited views and began at the beginning of the 1840s to participate in the political movements that were still in their infancy in public life in Oldenburg. From 1850 to 1854 he was a member of the Oldenburg state parliament, of which he was vice-president from 1850 to 1851. Like his younger brother August Niebour (1821–1890), he was a member of the left-wing liberal opposition . When he felt that he had been left out of promotion because of his political stance, on April 17, 1858, he asked for his release from the Oldenburg military service in order to take up service as a major in Bremen . In 1861 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and took part in the German war as commander of the Bremen contingent . However, due to a fall from his horse, he had to give up his command prematurely and was retired on September 27, 1867 with the character of a colonel.

In the following years he devoted himself intensively to founding and building up numerous public and school libraries and pursued his liberal ideas on popular education. As early as 1845 he had co-founded the Association for the Promotion of Popular Education in Oldenburg and was active on its board. The aim of his activity was, based on the tradition of the Enlightenment , to enable the common people to gain social advancement through education.

family

Niebour married on April 20, 1841 Charlotte Johanne Caroline b. Starklof (* 1821), the daughter of the Oldenburg writer and cabinet secretary Ludwig Starklof (1789–1850) and Elisabeth Dorothea born. Römeling (1793-1854). Since his wife had to be admitted to an institution from 1858 because of a mental illness, Niebour tried from 1859 to obtain consent to divorce from the Bremen Senate by means of episcopate law, but the latter refused the application.

Awards

Works

  • Map of Hanover, Oldenburg, Braunschweig and Schaumburg-Lippe as a tax association with regard to the German Customs Union. Oldenburg. 1839.
  • The city of Oldenburg with the suburbs. Design by A. von Hirschfeld. Copper engraving. Oldenburg. 1840.
  • Historical map of the counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst, also map of the mouths of the Weser around 1511. According to O. Lasius u. A. designed and engraved. (With the plans of Oldenburg and Jever as fortresses). Oldenburg. 1842.
  • Open letter to Mr. Chr. Lahusen. Bremen. 1868.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg 1872/73, p. 69
  2. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung Munich 1858, p. 4998
  3. ↑ Military weekly paper 51 (1866), supplement to No. 41, p. 67
personal data
SURNAME Niebour, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Niebour, Johann Georg Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German colonel and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1895
Place of death Bremen