Gottfried Graefenhayn

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Gottfried Graefenhayn (* before 1736; † September 6, 1752 in Wasserthaleben ) was a Saxon mining official and local politician. He was the mountain judge and mayor of the city of Sangerhausen.

Life

He was the son of the city judge and figural organist Graefenhayn . After his death in 1736, Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach , the son of Johann Sebastian Bach , applied unsuccessfully for his position as organist in Sangerhausen.

Gottfried Graefenhayn had a legal education and was elected mayor of Sangerhausen.

After the previous mountain judge in Sangerhausen retired, the mayor Gottfried Graefenhayn was also transferred to the office of mountain judge after the approval of the electoral authority in Dresden . To this end, in the presence of the tithe in Thuringia, Johann Christian Schmid , he took his oath of service in the trade union mining office in Sangerhausen on July 30, 1750 together with the new mountain bailiff Johann Friedrich Wagner . As a mountain judge, he was responsible for compliance with the electoral mining law and for making judgments.

However, Gräfenhayn was only able to exercise the mountain judge's office in Sangerhausen for a short time. Due to a disease of epilepsy, Graefenhayn had not been able to dispatch the slightest thing about mountain matters "for years and days". He died before the mountain judge's office could be removed from him on September 6, 1752 , during a spa stay in Wasserthaleben near Greußen for several days .

His successor as mountain judge was the then chief town clerk Johann Friedrich Hoffmann from Sangerhausen. Hoffmann was given the new office at the end of September 1752.

literature

  • Thilo Ziegler : The history of the Sangerhäuser Berg- und Hüttenwerk from the beginning to modern times . Issue 1 The Complete Overview , self-published, 2011, p. 38.
  • Rudolf Mirsch: Personalities of the Mansfeld mining and metallurgy industry . In: Announcements 126 of the Mansfeld Miners and Huts Association e. V., 6/2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Sebastian Bach. A Biography , 1929, 62.
  2. ^ Friedrich Schmidt: History of the city of Sangerhausen , Sangerhausen, 1906.
personal data
SURNAME Graefenhayn, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Saxon mountain official and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH before 1736
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1752
Place of death Wasserthaleben