Georg Thiel (mountain master)

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Georg Thiel (* around 1490 in Geyer , buried October 23, 1546 in Platten ) was a German miner, mine supervisor and city judge.

Life

Georg Thiel came from Geyer and was appointed to the newly founded mountain town of Platten in the Ore Mountains as a mountain jury in 1534/35. There he was involved in tin mining. He was the operator of a stamp mill on the Schwarzwasser and owner of the local St. Christoph and St. Ursula mines. In 1537 (according to other sources as early as 1534) he was appointed third mountain master of Platten and Melchior Steiger as a jury on the orders of the Schneeberg captains. His annual salary was 50 florins. Since 1538/39 he has been a mine director, u. a. the Schneebergl colliery. In 1540 he took over the function of city judge. In 1542 and 1546 he had his daughters Barbara and Judith baptized in Platten. According to his death register entry, he died in 1546 in the forest area on the Hirschberg near the Schwimmiger and was buried Tuesday after Ursula. Lorenz Petzelt took over the office of 6th mountain master in 1546. His widow married the mountain master and Freihof owner Lorenz Siegel in Eibenstock in 1549 . His inheritance was divided among his sons Hans, Jacob and Gregor Thiel. One of his brothers was the court owner Oswald Thiel, who also came from Geyer.

literature

  • Erich Matthes: The house loan book of the Saxon-Bohemian mountain town of Platten in the Ore Mountains , 1967

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Freiberg research books : D. Deutscher Verlag für Grundstoffindustrie, 1957 ( google.de [accessed on July 19, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Central German research . Böhlau, 1954, ISBN 978-3-412-04880-8 ( google.de [accessed July 19, 2020]).
  3. ^ Kronika města | Porta fontium. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Thiel, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German miner, mine manager and city judge
DATE OF BIRTH around 1490
PLACE OF BIRTH Geyer
DATE OF DEATH buried October 23, 1546