Gabriel Wilhelm Keferstein

Wilhelm Keferstein

Gabriel Wilhelm Gottlieb Keferstein (born September 16, 1755 in Kröllwitz , † June 16, 1816 in Halle (Saale) ) was councilor and mayor of the city of Halle (Saale).

family

His father, Georg Christoph Keferstein (1723–1802) was the tenant and owner of the Kröllwitz paper mill. His mother Maria Sophia Christiane Henriette Jacobi (1729–1803) was the daughter of a pastor. Wilhelm Keferstein, who was Protestant, married on October 8, 1782 Christane Saalfeld (January 27, 1752 to March 3, 1824), the daughter of a councilor in Halle.

Life

Wilhelm Keferstein attended the school of the orphanage and the city high school in Halle. He then studied law, history, mathematics and philosophy in Halle between 1772 and 1775. He graduated as Dr. Jur. And then worked as an advocate for the Saale and Mansfeld districts until 1778. He then worked as a judicial commissioner and notary in Halle until 1781, in 1784 as court tax and from 1786 to 1805 as syndic of the magistrate of the city of Halle. In 1806 he succeeded his father-in-law from 1806 to 1807 as a police councilor in Halle.

During the French occupation of Halle he was arrested and held in Pont-à-Mousson from May to October 1807 . In 1808 he was elected to the municipal council of the community of Halle, to which he should belong until 1813. At the same time he represented the Saale department in the imperial estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia . In 1808 he was also appointed justice of the peace.

From 1808 to 1813 he worked again as a notary. Its most important meaning was that it campaigned for the use of the brown coal deposits around Halle. He was also the initiator of the mountain concerts in Halle, which were held up into the 20th century.

In April / May 1813 the city was temporarily Prussian during the wars of liberation . Wilhelm Keferstein was mayor of Halle during this time. After returning to the Kingdom of Westphalia , he was deposed and sentenced to house and later city arrest.

As a Freemason, he was a member of the Lodge Zu den Drei Degen in Halle and from 1808 to 1816 Master of the Chair there . The Kefersteinstrasse in Halle is named after Wilhelm Keferstein.

literature

• Karl Ludwig Keferstein : Gabriel Wilhelm Keferstein . In: Historical Commission for the Province of Saxony and for Anhalt (Hrsg.): Mitteldeutsche Lebensbilder. Volume 3, Pictures of Life in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Self-published, Magdeburg 1928, pp. 221–227.
• Jochen Lengemann : Biographical Handbook of the Imperial Estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia and the Estates Assembly of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt. Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-458-16185-6 , pp. 152-153.