Georg Friedrich Spitzner

Georg Friedrich Spitzner (born April 21, 1688 in Blankenhain ; † September 18, 1764 in Schwarzenberg ) was an Electoral Saxon official and patron of the Evangelical Lutheran town church of St. Petri and Pauli in Reichenbach .

Life

Georg Friedrich Spitzner came from the Vogtland pastors family Spitzner , founded at the end of the 16th century in Auerbach , and was baptized on April 29, 1688 in the church in Blankenhain. He was the sixth child from the 1678 first marriage of Magister Johann Adam Spitzner (born April 4, 1650 in Blankenhain, † April 16, 1723 in Blankenhain), since 1681 as successor of his father pastor in Blankenhain and Rußdorf , with the civil servant's daughter Maria Elisabeth born Conradi (~ August 20, 1655 in Zwickau , † August 17, 1709 in Blankenhain). In contrast to his brothers Balthasar Andreas , Johann Christian (born September 10, 1683 in Blankenhain, † May 27, 1736 in Langenreinsdorf ) and Johann Andreas (born January 9, 1693 in Blankenhain, † November 17, 1743 in Thierbach ) turned Georg On the advice of his uncle and patron Georg Andreas Conradi, Friedrich did not give the clergy, but the administrative subject.

Georg Friedrich Spitzner around 1730, bailiff in Reichenbach

From 1701 to May 31, 1707, Spitzner visited Blankenhain initially from his parents and private tutors a . a. had been taught religion, Latin and Greek , the grammar school in Altenburg , where he also acquired knowledge of the Hebrew and French languages . He then moved to the University of Leipzig , but he was unable to complete his law studies "for lack of necessary subsistence" and other family circumstances. Provided with good references, Georg Friedrich Spitzner was first notarius publicus on June 27, 1709 and then an official actuary in Dresden on December 15, 1710 , a legal trainee on April 11, 1714, on May 18, 1715, Countess Schönburg magistrate in Rochsburg and on November 25, 1716 Magistrate in the city of Reichenbach, which is emerging as a result of the cloth making industry, where he bought a house. After all, from October 1, 1741 until his death he was bailiff and commissioner of the Schwarzenberg district office with Crottendorf .

On July 31, 1754, Spitzner, who married in 1715 and 1722 and was also wealthy in Rotschau , made his will, which is now lost. He died in service at the age of 76 and was buried on September 20, 1764 in his hereditary funeral in the Reichenbacher Peter-Paul-Kirche, which he had acquired in 1727 at the latest. His personal biography from 1761, intended as a basis for a funeral sermon and supplemented and completed by the relatives after his death, contains "valuable information about the ancestors and immediate family" of the electoral official.

His successor as district administrator in Schwarzenberg was his nephew, son-in-law since 1746 and deputy since 1753, Johann Georg Spitzner (born September 21, 1715 in Oberalbertsdorf , † August 7, 1770 in Schwarzenberg), the fifth child from the first marriage of his older brother Balthasar Andreas Spitzner.

Services

As a long-standing civil servant in Saxony, who "the dabey overtaxed work until after 76 years of age was not difficult at all", Georg Friedrich Spitzner distinguished himself in his official sphere of activity not only "in various difficult and important administrative matters". His report as Commissioner von Schwarzenberg of November 17, 1742 on observed weather changes and their effects on regional agriculture is of historical interest today .

Spitzner also emerged as a patron of the Reichenbach schools and the Church of St. Petri and Pauli, which fell victim to a large city fire on August 20, 1720. According to the contemporary judgment of pastor Johann Balthasar Olischer (1685–1751), bailiff Spitzner, whose house was also burned down, was one of those citizens of Reichenbach who were "awakened by God" in the course of the rebuilding of the church that began in 1721, "special pieces to let the churches do it at their own expense ". So Georg Friedrich Spitzner, "Your royal majesty in Poland, and Elector of Saxony, has a well-appointed bailiff in the Vogtlande, who, as against our church and schools in general, has proven to be a great benefactor of his own love instinct, the Cantzel in." build this church, and afterwards also have it gilded and ground, on which then on Sunday Laetare was preached for the first time in 1723 ".

The pulpit, which is decorated with three fields, is framed by two columns with gilded capitals and the figures of Peter and Paul. A baroque ray cross rises above the basket. With his foundation for the baroque pulpit altar, Georg Friedrich Spitzner made "the beginning" of a series of private foundations for the interior decoration of the new church.

Georg Körner , pastor, linguist and chronicler in Bockau , praised Spitzner in 1758 as an "official who is highly deserved in many important offices" and "in old age still walks along in the strength of the Lord".

Marriages and offspring

Georg Friedrich Spitzner, who kept the unicorn coat of arms and kept the coat of arms letter , given to his father in 1712 by the imperial palatine and court count Christoph von Kuntsch , was married twice. First he married on November 28, 1715 in Dresden his nine years younger Johanna Christine Elizabeth Hahn (born June 26, 1697 Dresden, † 4 June 1721 in Mylau ), daughter of the Elector of Saxony and Hofjustiz- Appeal secretary Christian Albrecht Hahn in Dresden and his wife Magdalene Elisabeth geb. Ferber. On February 12, 1722 Georg Friedrich Spitzner married Christiane Sophie Schilbach in Reichenbach (* December 3, 1699 in Reichenbach, †?), Daughter of the businessman Paul Schilbach and his wife Christiane geb. Abbreviation. His two marriages resulted in a total of 17 children born in Reichenbach, ten sons and seven daughters, three of whom died early. Only Adolph Friedrich Spitzner (born October 16, 1727 in Reichenbach, † June 19, 1776 in Neudorf ) became a pastor; Most of the sons later worked as civil servants, while the daughters often had civil servants from well-known families as spouses.

Two of Georg Friedrich Spitzner's grandsons established new lines within the Spitzner family: the lawyer Vollrath Friedrich Gotthold Spitzner (born February 11, 1771 in Stolpen , † January 23, 1829 in Ruhland ) the "Prussian" or Ruhlander and the chief accountant Adolph Friedrich Esaias Spitzner (* July 6, 1768 in Stolpen, † October 9, 1841 in Dresden) the "Saxon" or Dresden line, to which in the 19th and 20th centuries a. a. Annemarie Spitzner , Carl Spitzner , Gustav Spitzner , Karl Spitzner and Reinhard Spitzner belonged.

literature

• Draft of a chronica of the old Voigtland town of Reichenbach, compiled from credible news and written by Johann Balthasar Olischer . Friedrich Lankischen's heirs, Leipzig 1729, pp. 42 and 52 f. ( Google Books , accessed February 11, 2013)

• Georg Körner: Bockauische Chronik, or Old and New News from Bockau bey Schneeberg, in the Schwarzenberg district office (...) . CW Fulden, Schneeberg 1750/63, p. 303 ( ULB Sachsen-Anhalt , accessed on January 25, 2012)

• Reliable news of the original arrival in this world, and the laborious change in life that continued for over 76 years, finally the weyland Hoch Edelgebohrnen Vesten, and rightly highly learned gentleman, Mr. George Friedrich Spitzner's Königl, died away. Pohln. and Kur-Fürstl. Saxon. Highly ordained commission councilor and the best-merited Kreys officials at Schwarzenberg and Crottendorf, such as such reports from himself (...), but the rest of the news after his real death, was supplemented by his relatives who were left behind (1761/64) ; Typewritten copy from 1912 in private ownership

• Weise, Erich (ed.): Family chronicle of the Spitzner family . Printed and published by C. Heinrich, Dresden 1936, pp. 11, 32, 34, 38 ff. And 45

• Albert Spitzner-Jahn: The Vogtland Spitzner family . 2nd edition, self-published, Kamp-Lintfort 2011, pp. 17, 22, 24, 37, 56, 61, 74, 75 and 157 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ George Körner: Old and new news from the mountain town of Bockau near Schneeberg, in the Meissnian Upper Ore Mountains, in which the story of the castle and rule Schwarzenberg is dealt with before this time, for the New Year 1758 and so in the future each time communicated , by CW Fulden, Schneeberg 1758 , P. 303 digitized