Gotthelf Traugott Esaias Häntzschel

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Gotthelf Traugott Esaias Häntzschel

Gotthelf Traugott Esaias Häntzschel (born December 16, 1779 in Schandau ; † February 2, 1848 ) was a German businessman and politician.

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The son of the Saxon raft master Johann Esaias Häntzschel and his wife Eleonore Ernestine settled as a merchant in Mittweida , where he acquired citizenship in 1810 . In 1818 he acquired a plot of land in the city center, on which he had a residential and commercial building built, in which he ran his trading business. On March 4, 1817, he was appointed mayor of Mittweida for the first time, and between 1817 and 1831 he took part in the Saxon estates several times as a member of the general cities of the Erzgebirge district . As a representative of the 3rd urban electoral district (electoral district Leisnig with the cities of Mittweida, Waldheim , Leisnig , Döbeln and Mügeln ) he was a member of the second chamber of the constitutional state parliament of Saxony in 1833/34 and 1836/37 . On February 2, 1848, he committed suicide on a trip to Koethen . Häntzschel's wife Friederika Josepha b. Reinicker (died on February 25, 1837 in Mittweida) was the daughter of the Mittweida merchant Johann David Reinicker (1737-1811) and Christiana Sophia born. Lange (1747-1802).

literature

  • Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - The members of the (electoral) Saxon state estates (1863-1831). Dresden, 2009, p. 183f

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Matzerath: Aspects of the Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Dresden 2001, p. 102
  2. ^ Church of Mittweida burial register