Carl Georg Schwing (born 7 October 1778 in

Stralsund Stralsund (; Swedish: ''Strålsund''), officially the Hanseatic City of Stralsund ( German: ''Hansestadt Stralsund''), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin, ...

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, died 8 May 1858) was a German

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and

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of Stralsund.

Life

Carl Georg Schwing was admitted to the High Tribunal in

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as an advocate in 1804, and was appointed as district court secretary in

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. The

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appointed him to notary and judge. In 1805, he was accepted into the Stralsund city council. His election as mayor followed in 1820. As a deputy, he represented Stralsund at the Provincial

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between 1823 and 1843. In 1837 he was a council elder. In 1840, he was awarded the

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with a bow, which was raised to Oak Leaves in 1855. Schwing was appointed to the secret government council in 1843. The Swedish king Oskar I gave him the title "Hofrat" in 1853 and the commander's cross of the Vasava in 1855. On the Stralsund Spalding shipyard a ship was named "Bürgermeister Schwing" in honor of mayor Schwing in 1855."Amtliche liste der schiffe der deutschen kriegs und handelsmarine mit ihren unterscheidungssignalen, als anhang zum Internationalen signalbuch"
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Literature

* ''Schwing, Carl Georg''. In: Grete Grewolls: ''Wer war wer in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern? Ein Personenlexikon''. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, , S. 402.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schwing, Carl 1778 births 1858 deaths Mayors of places in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania