Bernhard Braunsdorf

Bernhard Ludwig Konstantin Braunsdorf (* 2. October 1808 in Dresden , † 8. November 1886 in Peine ) was the first Saxon Mountain lawyer and Mining Authority sdirektor.

biography

The son of the Dresden magazine inspector and rent agent Johann Karl Braunsdorf and his wife Johanne Christiane Sophie, née Fischer, attended the Nikolaischule in Leipzig. In 1825 he was enrolled at the Bergakademie Freiberg at the same time as his older brother Karl Julius . Both became members of the Corps Montania Freiberg in 1829 . After completing his studies in mining, he began studying law at the University of Leipzig , which he graduated in 1833 as the first mountain lawyer in Saxony. After joining the higher mining administration, he worked from 1834 at the Annaberg Mining Office and at the same time at the local city court as an accessist.

In 1836 Braunsdorf was appointed protocolist at the Schneeberg Mining Authority and at the same time was entrusted with the supervision of the Markus-Semmler-Stolln and other royal tunnels . In 1838 he was called to the position of Mining Authority Assessor in Schneeberg. In the following year he married the daughter of a manufacturer from Annaberg, Cölestine Glöckner. In 1841 Braunsdorf took the post of mountain and counter scribe in Johanngeorgenstadt. After he had previously exercised the miner function from 1845 after the election of Anton Voss to the state parliament, Braunsdorf was appointed miner in Johanngeorgenstadt on July 4, 1849 . He had a soup and dining establishment set up for the needy population in the mountain town.

After the mining office in Johanngeorgenstadt was dissolved, Braunsdorf took over the miner's function in Freiberg in 1856 and at the same time was appointed to the chief mining office by chief mining officer Friedrich Constantin von Beust . In 1867 he was appointed a mountain ridge. In the course of the fundamental reform of the Saxon mining administration and the associated abolition of the Oberbergamt and all previous mining offices in January 1869, a new mining office was created that was responsible for the entire Kingdom of Saxony, and Braunsdorf was appointed its first director. The Secret Bergrat retired on October 1, 1883, and was succeeded by Karl Edwin Leuthold . Braunsdorf died of a stroke during a visit to his son-in-law Johannes Galli, who was a civil servant in the Peine ironworks. The large mountain parade to the funeral procession in Freiberg, which was set up for November 10, 1886, was canceled because his coffin only arrived a day late due to a wagon damage on the train.

For his services Braunsdorf was honored with the Grand Ducal Tuscan Order of Merit and the Royal Saxon Order of Merit, First Class.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Corps list of Montania from 1921, No. 52
2. ^ Corps list of the Weinheimer SC from 1910, Montania Freiberg, No. 44

literature

• Carl Schiffner : From the life of old Freiberg mountain students , Vol. 1, Freiberg 1935