Gottfried Posselt

Gottfried Posselt (born September 11, 1749 in Teningen ; † March 23, 1807 in Bretten ) was a lawyer and official member of the Baden government since 1775 , comparable to today's district administrator .

family

Gottfried Posselt was the son of the evangelical church council Gottfried Posselt (born August 2, 1721 in Durlach , † July 31, 1804 in Bretten) and Maria, born Brendel († October 5, 1793 in Pforzheim ). On August 15, 1788, he married Salome Barbara nee Hemberger (born June 16, 1755 in Pforzheim; † August 11, 1800 in Münzesheim ), daughter of Johann Heinrich Hemberger, council administrator, town builder and businessman in Pforzheim, and Margaretha nee Seufert. His second marriage was on January 18, 1801, Wilhelmine nee Böckmann (* 1774; † May 25, 1804 in Bretten), daughter of Johann Böckmann, Privy Councilor in Karlsruhe , and Margarethe nee Eikert. There were three children from their first marriage: Henriette († as a child), Henriette Johanna (* July 13, 1790 in Pforzheim; † February 7, 1856 in Durlach) and Christina (* June 12, 1792 in Pforzheim; † August 30, 1810 in Durlach).

Life

After studying law , Gottfried Posselt was court attorney in May 1775 and advocatus extraordinarii in Pforzheim in 1777 . In 1783 he became second assessor at the Pforzheim Oberamt and first assessor there on July 23, 1786. June 23, 1794, he was bailiff , Gefällverwalter and clerk at the offices Münzesheim and Helmsheim . On October 23, 1803 he became a bailiff at the district office of Bretten and on March 23, 1807 he died there.

literature

• Bernd Breitkopf: The old districts and their heads of office. The emergence of the districts and offices in what is today the district of Karlsruhe. Biographies of the senior officials and district administrators from 1803 to 1997 . Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 1997, ISBN 3-929366-48-7 , p. 162.