Christian Wilhelm Küstner

Christian Wilhelm Küstner (born February 13, 1721 in Leipzig , † February 18, 1785 in Leipzig) was a lawyer from the Electoral Saxony and mayor of the city of Leipzig .

Life

Christian Wilhelm Küstner

Christian Wilhelm Küstner was the son of the Mayor of Leipzig Gottfried Wilhelm Küstner and his wife Christiane Elisabeth née Winkler. After taking lessons from private tutors, he attended the Thomasschule in Leipzig . He began his studies at the newly founded Georg August University in Göttingen , but returned to Leipzig to study mathematics, philosophy and history. He obtained his legal training at the University of Wittenberg and received his doctorate in both rights (Doctor iuris utriusque) at the University of Leipzig in 1744 .

In 1747 he was elected to the city council. Here he was judge in 1755, council syndicate in 1760, builder in 1763 and proconsul (deputy mayor) in 1765. In his offices he made merits in overcoming the economic and financial plight of the city caused by the Seven Years War . Eventually he was elected mayor in 1771. This election was followed by six more in 1773, 1774, 1776, 1777, 1780 and 1782.

In 1760 Küstner became professor at the law faculty, in 1762 first consistorial assessor and in 1772 assessor in the law faculty. From 1760 he was a member of the cathedral chapter in Wurzen and from 1763 to 1768 head of the Thomas School. He was electoral secret chamber councilor and from 1783 imperial court palatinate count .

Christian Wilhelm Küstner was married twice. In 1754 he married Emerentia Charitas b. Schneider and 1783 Dorothea Elisabeth used. Judge born Gaudlitz. The son Ernst Wilhelm Küstner (1759–1836) and four daughters came from the first twenty-year marriage, two of whom died in childhood.

Küstner owned several houses in the city and from 1765 also the Paunsdorf manor , which he had leased and only used as a summer residence.

Works (selection)

• De pignore in causa judicati capto, dissertation 1744
• De testamento feminae capite non deminutae ad locum Ciceronis topic., 1768
• Discurs to explain the churf. Saxon old and improved process order / transcribed by listeners in his [MH Griebners] college, together with e. Preface by JE Zschackwitz, also new additions and improvements by Chr. W. Küstnern. - Andre Aufl. - Leipzig: Heinsius, 1780

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• Karin Kühling, Doris Mundus: Leipzig's ruling mayors from the 13th century to the present. Sax-Verlag Beucha, 2000. ISBN 3-934544-02-9 . P. 48

Individual evidence

1. ^ Death certificate dated August 12, 1785, issued by the head writer Johann Friedrich Vollbert in Leipzig