Carl Wilhelm von Oppel

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Carl Wilhelm von Oppel (born March 3, 1767 in Freiberg , † November 22, 1833 in Dresden ) was a Saxon civil servant and member of the state parliament. He was Bergrat, chief tax collector and director of the Meissen porcelain factory .

origin

Carl Wilhelm von Oppel comes from a Protestant family of mountain officials. His parents were Friedrich Wilhelm von Oppel (1720–1769), chief miner and co-founder of the Freiberg Bergakademie, and Juliane Sophie, née. von Hartitzsch (1734-1813). His older brother was the Secret Finance Council and Saxon Chamber President Julius Wilhelm von Oppel (1765-1832), his younger brother August Wilhelm von Oppel (1769-1772).

In 1799 he married Margaretha Carolina Amalie, b. von Lüttichau , with whom he had the children Carl Julius Wilhelm , Friedrich, Wilhelm and Auguste.

education

After attending Latin school , he enrolled at the Bergakademie Freiberg from 1782. There he heard u. a. Abraham Gottlob Werner and stayed in Freiberg until 1784. From 1784 to 1787 he studied law at the University of Leipzig .

Career

After graduating, Oppel first became an auditor at the Leipzig Higher Court . Yet in 1787 he was appointed Vice-Obereinfahrer and Assessor at the Mining Authority appointed Freiberg. 1790 he was appointed to the Bergkommissionsrat Oberbergamt by Carl Wilhelm Benno von Heynitz , brother of the co-founder of the Freiberg Mining Academy Friedrich Anton von Heinitz .

In 1795, the head of the Silesian mining industry, Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Reden , offered him a managerial position in the Silesian mining industry , which he refused. He was the owner of the Krebs near Dohna manor .

Zauckerode coal plant

After the signing of the contract to purchase the von Schönberg coal works until the takeover by the Saxon Elector, von Oppel was commissioned on November 7, 1805 to supervise the "newly acquired Döhlener and Zauckeroder hard coal works". On May 24, 1806, he was appointed head of the Zauckerode Royal Saxon Coal Works founded on January 1, 1806 .

The construction of the Tiefen Elbe tunnel began under his leadership . The 6.6 kilometer long Weißeritz tunnel was also built. As the responsible director, he financed experiments and developments such as the introduction of the coal washing system according to Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Lindig . The Oppelschacht named after him existed in Zauckerode until 1927 .

In 1805 Oppel was elected chief tax collector of the Meißnische Kreis , in 1814 he was promoted to chief tax inspector.

Porcelain Manufactory

On March 17, 1814 , the Russian Governor General Repnin-Wolkonski transferred the provisional management of the Meissen porcelain factory and the stoneware factories in Hubertusburg (Wermsdorf) and Döhlen , which had got into considerable economic difficulties under the owner, Count Camillo Marcolini . In 1815 he was finally appointed director of the porcelain factory by King Friedrich August I. He had the technical equipment significantly improved there and thus ensured the company's success.

With the introduction of the constitutional monarchy under King Anton in 1831 , Oppel became a member of the first chamber of the Saxon state parliament and was chairman of the financial deputation until his death in 1833 .

literature

  • AL v. Vitzthum: Julius Wilhelm von Oppel , Dresden 1932.
  • Carl Schiffner : From the life of Freiberg mountain students , vol. 1, Freiberg 1935, p. 313f.
  • Helmut Wilsdorf: Documents on the history of coal mining in the house of the homeland , Vol. 1: 1542–1882, Freital 1976, p. 20.
  • W. Goder: On the influence of the productive forces of the Saxon mining and metallurgy, especially the Freiberg mining sciences, on the invention and technological development of Meissen porcelain as the starting point of the European hard-paste porcelain industry , Diss. Freiberg 1979, p. 247f.
  • Carl Wilhelm von Oppel, in: Communication from the Freiberger Altertumsverein 85/2000, pp. 85–87. - DBA I.

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personal data
SURNAME Oppel, Carl Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon civil servant and member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiberg
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1833
Place of death Dresden