Friedrich August Karl von Kospoth

Friedrich August Karl Freiherr von Kospoth

Friedrich August Karl (Carl) Freiherr von Kospoth (born July 2, 1767 in Ruppin ; † August 4, 1832 in Breslau ; also: August Friedrich Karl von Kospoth ) was a German local politician and Lord Mayor of the city of Wroclaw .

Live and act

Friedrich August Karl von Kospoth was a son of Friedrich August Wilhelm Graf von Kospoth (born August 15, 1739 in Oschitz, † June 8, 1782 in Neuruppin) and Johanna Juliane Marianne von Mosch (born February 26, 1728 in Altdorf near Sagan , † February 3, 1793 in Kunersdorf). He attended the Knight Academy in Liegnitz and then studied law in Halle . From 1791 he was in the service of the Duke of Braunschweig-Oels . After the Second Partition of Poland , he was commissioned by the Prussian side with the administration of Petrikau and Kalisch .

In 1808 Kospoth began working at the local court in Breslau. From 1812 he took care of the city's finances, schools and social affairs as mayor for the next twenty years.

When the Prussian king came to Breslau in January 1813 to prepare the revolt against Napoleon , Kospoth was in constant contact with the monarch and organized a fundraising among the citizens to equip the volunteers with uniforms. He negotiated with Napoleon to spare the city from Lauriston's troops .

Afterwards, Kospoth tried to improve the economic situation of the population through reforms and thus to reduce the number of beggars. He also supported the project to erect a Blücher monument by Christian Daniel Rauch on the Salzring. The great Oder flood of June 1829 fell during his term of office.

August von Kospoth died of cholera in the summer of 1832 and was buried in the Great Cemetery. In 1833 the painter Gottfried August Thilo (1766–1855) made a portrait of him. Until 1945, today's Ignacy Daszyński Street (Polish: ul. Ignacego Daszyńskiego ) was named after Kospoth.

August von Kospoth was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle in 1822 .

family

Kospoth was married to Rosina Geßner. Of the two sons, the older first lieutenant was in the 7th Hussar Regiment, the younger was the chief forester of Thurn and Taxis in the province of Posen . Of the eight daughters, Bertha (1797–1869) was married to the Wroclaw bookseller and city councilor Julius Korn (1799–1837) since 1826 . Both were the parents of Heinrich von Korn .

literature

• Halina Okólska: Nadburmistrzowie i inni urzędnicy Magistratu Wrocławia 1808-1933. Oficyna Wydawniczo-Reklamowa Hanna Wolska na zlecenie Biura Rady Miejskiej Wrocławia, Wrocław 2007, ISBN 978-83-60885-28-4 , pp. 7-9, ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ according to DNB / DBA.
2. ^ Günter Elze: Breslau - yesterday and today . Ed .: G. Rautenberg. Leer, East Frisia 1979.
3. ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 1834, pp. 582 ff.