Friedrich Wilhelm von Kommerstädt

Friedrich Wilhelm von Kommerstädt , also von Kommerstedt , (* 1774 in Schönfeld , Vogtland , † 1819 ) was a Prussian and later a Saxon civil servant. He gained fame through his friendship with Novalis .

Life

He came from the Vogtland noble family of Kommerstädt / -stedt and was the son of Heinrich Wilhelm Rudolph von Kommerstädt (1740-1815) on Unter-Schönfeld in Vogtland, where he was born in 1774. His mother was Carolina Sophia née von Bose.

Friedrich Wilhelm von Kommerstädt was tutored by private tutors. In contrast to his younger brother HeinrichLeberecht Wilhelm von Kommerstedt, who took over and managed his father's property, his parents had planned an administrative career for Friedrich Wilhelm. They sent him to the University of Leipzig , where he enrolled in October 1790 to study law. In Leipzig he also met Novalis, the poet of early German romanticism, with whom he moved to Lutherstadt Wittenberg to study in the summer of 1793 . Since 2014, a house near the market has had a memorial plaque there, which also reminds of the joint stay of the two students in Wittenberg, who lodged with each other "in great harmony".

In 1797 Friedrich Wilhelm von Kommerstädt was employed as an ausculator by the Prussian government in Bayreuth after passing his exam . After successfully passing the second exam, he became a government trainee in 1798. In 1800 he passed the major exam and went to Warsaw a little later. In Poland he was granted the patent as a councilor in 1802. With the cession of the Polish province in 1806/07 after the lost battle at Jena and Auerstedt, Kommerstedt withdrew from the Prussian administrative service and went to his Saxon homeland. In the Schönburg residence city of Glauchau he became the government and consistorial director. After his death, he left behind numerous debts, so that his heirs had to file for bankruptcy and the inheritance of the heir was rejected.

literature

• Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 516 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
2. ^ Leipziger Zeitung of December 23, 1820