Anton Voss

Anton Voss (born June 29, 1805 in Leipzig , † before 1866 in America) was a Saxon miner and member of the state parliament.

Life

Voss was born in Leipzig as the son of an exchange broker. After attending grammar school in Bautzen , he attended the Freiberg Mining Academy as a beneficiary from 1823 without any previous mining knowledge . Between 1825 and 1827, he worked as a mining academy in the geognostic state survey and provided descriptions of Thuringia, the area around Coburg, Sonnefeld, Weismain and Staffelstein and the area between fishermen, along the Eger down to Welchau, Gottesgab and Johanngeorgenstadt. In the course of his studies, Voss decided on the mountain law subject. He then joined the Saxon mining administration. For the Marienberg Mining Authority, Voss produced a thesis on mining history and the courtesy of the Thesenwald.

From 1831 Voss worked as a mining authority auditor for the mining authorities in Geyer and Ehrenfriedersdorf and from 1832 in the same function at the mining authority in Annaberg with Scheibenberg, Hohenstein and Oberwiesenthal. In 1833 Voss was appointed as jury administrator in Geyer and Ehrenfriedersdorf in the Mining Office Marienberg with Geyer and Ehrenfriedersdorf. Since 1836 he was a member of the Freiberg Mining Authority as a Mining Authority Assessor and 2nd Mining Authority Protocolist. By order of the Ministry of Finance of October 24, 1838, Voss was appointed as the successor of Rudolph Hering to the Bergmeister of the Mining Office Johanngeorgenstadt with an annual salary of 800 thalers. His official assignment took place on February 2, 1839. From 1840 Voss' annual salary was increased to 900 thalers.

On March 20, 1845, Voss was elected in Grünhain in a third vote as a member of the 12th urban constituency in the second chamber of the Saxon state parliament 1845/46 . After his election to the state parliament, Voss was released from the official business of the miner and regulated his representation. He and his family moved into an apartment in Dresden. On June 16, 1845, the mountain clerk Bernhard Braunsdorf was officially entrusted with the temporary maintenance of the mining operations during the absence of the mountain master.

In the spring of 1846 Voss was excluded from the sessions of the Landtag Chamber on suspicion of misappropriating funds until he had fully justified himself. Due to the strong suspicion of embezzlement, he was temporarily suspended from the office on June 4, 1846 and an investigation was initiated. As a result, Voss went into hiding, he left his family in Dresden and fled to America. Voss was declared forfeit on August 21, 1846 due to evasion of his service as a mountain master. At the extraordinary state parliament in 1847 , his deputy Friedrich Gustav Weidauer took up the mandate.

On July 4, 1849, the previous interim administrator of the Johanngeorgenstadt Mining Authority, Bergschreiber Bernhard CL Braunsdorf, was appointed as Voss' successor as the new Bergmeister, he was also the last Bergmeister of Johanngeorgenstadt.

Voss was born with Bertha Antonia. Aster married. The son Georg Anton Theodor Voss, born in 1840, emerged from the marriage.

Embezzlement

After submitting the mountain magazine invoice for the first half of 1845, a shortfall in the deposited cash was found and a defect was initiated. The investigations showed that Voss had repeatedly received cash amounts since 1844 in order to exchange them for government bonds at a Leipzig bank, with which he had good relations. However, it turned out that only about half of the money handed over to him had been returned in the form of government bonds.

The investigation and testing of all Johanngeorgenstädter Bergkassen, which was then ordered, was completed in 1847. It revealed that Voss was responsible for cash deficits of over 10,663 thalers. Of this, over 6576 thalers were accounted for by the deposits of the mountain magazine, around 4047 thalers by the wood equivalent money fund and 99 thalers by the mine fund of Vereinigt Feld im Fastenberge .

The mountain clerk Braunsdorf, the jury Tröger and the senior tenant Schalig had to jointly reimburse 390 thalers of the deficit that had arisen in the mountain magazine treasury, as they had given the money to Voss without a proper receipt.

A little later, another embezzlement was discovered in the Upper Mountain mining industry: when Carl August Schalig, who had been in the upper tenth of many years, died in 1850, considerable deficits were revealed in the Upper Mountain tenth fund.

literature

• Frank Teller : Mining and mining town Johanngeorgenstadt. Horse Göpel Association: Johanngeorgenstadt, 2001.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bergakademie Freiberg (ed.): Festschrift for the centenary of the Königl. Saxon. Bergakademie zu Freiberg on July 30, 1866. p. 254. ( digitized version )
2. ↑ Yearbook for the miner and hüttenmann 1832, p. 69. ( digitized version )
3. ↑ Jahrbuch für den Berg- und Hüttenmann 1835, p. 115. ( Digitized version ( memento of the original from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this notice. ) 
4. ↑ Jahrbuch für den Berg- und Hüttenmann 1837, p. 119. ( Digitized version ( memento of the original from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) 
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Sächsisches Bergarchiv Freiberg , 40012 Bergamt Johanngeorgenstadt No. 1260: The occupation of the Bergmeisterdienst in the combined Bergamtsreviert Johanngeorgenstadt with Schwarzenberg and Eibenstock , Vol. II.
6. ↑ State Parliament Protocol 1845/46.
7. ↑ Information on the negotiations in the state parliament. II Chamber. No. 148/1846. ( Digitized version )
8. ↑ Bayerische Landbötin No. 73/1846 of June 18, 1846.
9. ↑ Protocol of the Landtag 1847.
10. ↑ Sächsisches Bergarchiv Freiberg, 40001 Oberbergamt Freiberg No. 1411: The behavior of Bergmeister Voss .... , Vol. I.
11. ↑ Sächsisches Bergarchiv Freiberg, 40017 Obergebirgisches Oberzehntenamt No. 29: Money embezzlement of the former miner Voss in Johanngeorgenstadt. ( Online finding aid  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )