Georg Wilhelm de Gennin

Georg Wilhelm Henning (Russian Георг Вильгельм де Геннин ) ( born October 11, 1676 Winners country, † April 12, 1750 ) was a German - Russian engineer, design engineer, officer and organizer.

Life

Georg Wilhelm Henning came from the winner's country and was baptized in 1676 in Siegen. His family later moved to Hanau, why Henning was sometimes referred to as Hanauer. Henning went into a Siegener iron foundry in the doctrine which, inter alia, Guns produced. He moved to Amsterdam and served in the army there in the artillery, responsible for technical maintenance.

In Amsterdam, the Russian Tsar Peter I, who wanted to modernize Russia and for Europe traveled to and held by qualified personnel out on Henning was attentive. Henning was taken by François Le Fort in Russian service, and changed his name to Gennin, which is easier to pronounce in Russian.

As a member of the Imperial Russian Army Gennin took part in the Great Northern War. He distinguished himself among others made at the siege of Vyborg and the siege of Kexholm. He associated the Russian court in the highest circles and came into contact with Jacob Daniel Bruce Alexander Danilovich Menshikov and. In the aftermath Gennin served as a geological consultant, in reshaping the mining industry in Russia and was built in 1721 commissioned to build a weapons factory in Sestrorezk.

Together with his colleague Vasily Tatishchev Georg Gennin is also the founder of the city of Yekaterinburg, which developed at the iron works constructed there, with the November 18, 1723 as the official founding date. 1734 he returned to St. Petersburg, where he was a member of the Military Council for life.

He died on April 12 in 1750.

Publications

• Описание Уральских и Сибирских заводов, 1735, contains the first detailed scientific description of the Perm region