Anton Weck

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Anton Weck (born January 10, 1623 in Annaberg , † September 21, 1680 in Bautzen ) was an electoral Saxon councilor and secret imperial secretary as well as the author of a Dresden Chronicle.

Life

Anton Weck was born the son of an Annaberg wool merchant. The family moved to Chemnitz after a city fire in 1630 , but returned a year later. Due to the hardship of the Thirty Years' War , he was unable to implement his original plan to study . Instead he went to Dresden in 1635 and became a clerk at the Protonotary Luhn in the senior consistory . He took particular care of his training. He then worked for the court preacher Hoë von Hoënegg before he took a position at the electoral court chancellery in 1641. In 1645, Weck took part in the negotiations that led to the Kötzschenbroda armistice , during which Saxony left the war. From 1648 he was responsible for the foreign secretariat and the registry at the old chancellery archive. In 1662 he took over the secret imperial secretariat and was appointed to the council. The Upper Lusatian affairs were also his responsibility. Because of his position, he accompanied the elector to the Reichstag and was entrusted with other diplomatic missions. He traveled to Vienna in 1660 and 1661 and to Gotha in 1662.

After 1665 he married the widow of the doctor and alchemist August Hauptmann , Anna Maria geb. Macasius (1615 - 1681), daughter of the Leipzig doctor Paul Macasius .

The plan submitted to Elector Johann Georg II in 1671 for a work on Saxon history was no longer implemented. However, a comprehensive work on the history of the city of Dresden, on which he had worked for 30 years, was published in 1680. It includes u. a. topographical information and information on cultural history as well as historical information about the Princely House and its festivities. Numerous documents are also attached .

Because of the outbreak of a plague epidemic , he and his colleagues moved to Bautzen in 1680, where he died that same year.

Trivia

He bequeathed several foundations to his hometown from his fortune. He also had the parapets of the gallery in the church of the Dresden Bartholomäihospital adorned with pictorial representations of the biblical story.

Anton Weck was married twice, his first marriage to Susanna Weck, b. Haußmann, and in second marriage with Anna Maria Weck, geb. Macasius , used Captain . He had 5 sons and 3 daughters from his first marriage.

In addition to two properties in Dresden, Weck owned land in Kötzschenbroda , including a farm on the market ( today Altkötzschenbroda 32 ) and the Sandleithe and Schildberg vineyards . It would have to be clarified whether the Weckische Hohenberge can also be assigned to him or his family .

Fonts

  • The Churfl.-Saxon. far beruffenen Residentz and main Vestung Dresden Writable and imagination , Nuremberg 1679, 2nd edition 1680, as a CD-ROM in the publishing Dresden book, Dresden 2009. ISBN 978-3-9812287-1-7 , Online Resource: .

Commemoration

In his honor, the former Oststrasse in Dresden- Löbtau was renamed Anton-Weck-Strasse in 1926.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Ulrich Brysch: August Hauptmann (1607–1674). On the life, work and impact of a Dresden medical alchemist. Centaurus, Herbolzheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-86226-108-6 , p. 25 ff
  2. ↑ Reinhardt Eigenwill: Weck, Anton . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
  3. ↑ Information from the Radebeul City Archives from the house index to users: Jbergner from July 15, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Wake up, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION electoral Saxon council, secret secretary, author of a Dresden chronicle
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1623
PLACE OF BIRTH Annaberg
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1680
Place of death Bautzen