Gottlieb Jacob Weizsäcker

Gottlieb Jacob Weizsäcker (* 15. February 1736 in Eckartsweiler ; † 25. October 1798 in Öhringen ) was a German chef and progenitor of Öhringer branch of Weizsäcker .

Life

Weizsäcker was the son of the miller in Eckartsweiler Wolfgang Friedrich Weizsäcker (1687–1747) and Marie Catharina, b. Schlösser (1696–1765), daughter of the Hohenlohe-Pfedelbach court shoemaker of Pfedelbach, Johann Georg Schlösser. Weizsäcker had initially learned the miller's trade, but had then apprenticed to the chef Georg Ludwig Scheuermann in the nearby Öhringen Castle. In 1768 he succeeded his teacher and became Hofmundkoch zu Öhringen. A few months later he married the daughter of his predecessor, Elisabeth Christina Margarethe Scheuermann (1739–1779).

Weizsäcker's importance was not in his culinary art. Rather, through his employment at court, he paved the way for the social advancement of the Öhringen branch of the Weizsäcker family, who until then had been enfeoffed millers in the insignificant town of Eckartsweiler . "The higher the rule, ... the better the chances of achieving a respected position in the world in spite of servitude." This is evidenced by the second marriage of the widowed Weizsäcker to Catharina Dorothea Greiss (* 1758; † after 1816), daughter of M. Carl Ferdinand Greiss, pastor of Buchenbach, with whom the connection to educated middle class circles succeeded.

Weizsäcker's wife fell into poverty after his death in 1798 and became a nuisance to the court as a supplicant. She attributed her predicament to her husband's "reluctance to lead a neat and neat life and frugal housekeeping." However, as is not uncommon for the sons of court servants, the court encouraged the education of the son of his second marriage, Christian Ludwig Friedrich Weizsäcker (1785–1831), and continued this after Weizsäcker's death. The son had already made it to the master's degree, city pastor, preacher and princely Hohenlohe school conference director in Öhringen, but died - of poor health - at the age of 46 and left his 34-year-old widow without care. His son, the theologian Karl Heinrich Weizsäcker , who was eight years old when his father died, was therefore only able to study through the state examination and the associated free admission to the seminar and continue the social advancement that Gottlieb Jacob Weizsäcker had begun.

Weizsäcker's son from his first marriage, Carl Friedrich Gottlob Weizsäcker (1774–1835), became the town school in Öhringen. His descendants stayed true to their craft roots and turned primarily to the optician's profession.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Euler: pedigree v. Weisäcker – v. Graevenitz . Herold publishing house in Berlin, 1992.
• Martin Wein : The Weizsäcker. Story of a German family . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-426-02417-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Servants in the 18th century . Meiner, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-7873-0915-2 ( Studies on the eighteenth century . Volume 12), p. 179.
2. ↑ Martin Wein, The Weizsäcker. Story of a German Family , p. 23.
3. ↑ Martin Wein, The Weizsäcker. History of a German family , genealogical table, back cover