Christian Weinlig (Mayor)

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Tomb of the Weinlig family, 2014 in the palace in the Great Garden

Christian Weinlig (born April 23, 1681 in Breslau ; † July 13, 1762 in Dresden ) was a lawyer, senior civil servant , city councilor and governing mayor of the city of Dresden. He achieved particular merits in the Seven Years' War through his involvement in the negotiations on the contribution demands of the Prussian occupation to Dresden.

Family relationships

Christian Weinlig's ancestors come from Silesia and are documented there until 1578. Christian was born as the first child of the doctor Gottfried Weinlig (1651–1702) and Anna Helena Wolf and was baptized on April 23, 1681. Christian had two younger brothers. His first marriage in 1703 was Anna Christiana Gotter, who had seven children. After the death of his wife (1732), he married the young widow Magdalena Sophie Schomburg in 1734, who bore him nine more children, including Christian Traugott Weinlig and Christian Ehregott Weinlig . He died on July 13, 1762 at the age of 81 and was buried in the family vault in the Elias Cemetery , which the city of Dresden had assigned to him in gratitude for his services in 1740 .

Life

After graduating from high school in Breslau, he is said to have studied law at the University of Leipzig . In 1703, at the age of 22, Weinlig established himself as a lawyer in Dresden. In 1719 he bought a house on the Altmarkt and received citizenship.

In 1724 he gave up his practice as a lawyer in order to enter the service of the city of Dresden and was appointed General Accisinspector in 1725. In 1730 he was appointed town clerk. In 1735 he was appointed by the city council as a syndic. Weinlig's skills and aptitude in administrative service and his general popularity led to his appointment as mayor in 1744. In addition, in 1745 he was given the role of city architect.

In 1747 he was governing mayor for the first time. It has been handed down from the following years that he was actively involved in the construction of the Frauenkirche . Aware of his merits, he was awarded a prayer room in the first gallery of the Frauenkirche at his request.

In 1753 he was reappointed Governing Mayor. During his second term of office, Dresden was occupied and destroyed in the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) between Prussia and Austria.

Although Prussia had assured the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland "every possible consideration" by his troops, shortly after the invasion of several Prussian regiments in September 1758, there were considerable inconveniences between the military and the city administration. Despite the protests of Weinlig and the leaders of the city administration, young men were forcibly recruited.

In March of the same year the city was imposed an impossible to raise contribution of 300,000 thalers. After the Prussian king took quarters in Dresden in August, Weinlig managed, in negotiations with the commanding general, to reduce the contribution to 120,000 thalers, to be paid in installments. Because, in the opinion of the occupiers, the city was in arrears with the installment payments, the contribution has now been increased to 500,000 thalers. By April 1758, “with many thousand tears”, only 220,000 thalers had been raised. Weinlig and the heads of the city administration presented the Prussian city commandant with a written statement about the city's inability to pay such a contribution.

In the following period, despite his personal commitment to the general, the city council fell apart with Weinlig. With the arrival of the Austrians and the withdrawal of the Prussians in 1759/60, suburbs and many buildings in Dresden's old town were burned down. The cruciform church was also badly damaged. There was a famine.

Weinlig was already seriously ill at this time and only took part in council meetings sporadically. He died on July 13, 1762 at the age of 81 and was buried in the family crypt in the Elias cemetery that had been assigned to him. His grave monument with the Chronos statue is now in the Great Garden .

literature

  • Karlwilhelm Just: The Weinlig family. CAStarke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1967

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Wilhelm Just: The sex Weinlig , CAStarke Verlag, 1967
  2. ↑ Karl Wilhelm Just: The sex Weinlig , CAStarke Verlag, 1967, p 15
  3. ↑ a b Karl Wilhelm Just: The sex Weinlig , CAStarke Verlag, 1967, p 19
  4. ↑ Karl Wilhelm Just: The sex Weinlig , CAStarke Verlag, 1967, p 16
  5. ↑ Karl Wilhelm Just: The sex Weinlig , CAStarke Verlag, 1967, p 23
  6. ↑ Karl Wilhelm Just: The sex Weinlig , CAStarke Verlag, 1967, p 14
  7. ↑ See also the list of the Lord Mayors of Dresden
  8. ↑ Karl Wilhelm Just: The sex Weinlig , CAStarke Verlag, 1967, pp 20-23
  9. ^ Dresden city history: Elector Friedrich August II. • Dresden in the late Baroque (1733–1763). In: Dresden-und-Sachsen.de. Archived from the original on November 27, 2014 ; accessed on December 17, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Christian Weinlig (1681–1762) - lawyer and mayor. In: Eliasfriedhof.de. Retrieved August 24, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Weinlig, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer, senior civil servant, city councilor and governing mayor of the city of Dresden
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1681
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1762
Place of death Dresden