Gustav Heinrich von Biedermann

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Gustav Heinrich Freiherr von Biedermann (born February 17, 1789 in Dresden , † June 29, 1862 in Forchheim ) was a German lawyer , manor owner and politician .

Live and act

Niederforchheim manor (around 1860)

His father, from Annaberg originating Really Privy Council and director of the second department of the Saxon Ministry of Finance Traugott Andreas Biedermann (1743-1814), in 1802 "in recognition of his services and with regard to the origin of his mother (born floor) from the old Scottish family of the Lindesey "raised to the hereditary imperial baronage .

From 1805 Biedermann attended the Bergakademie Freiberg , where he joined the Ore Mountain Landsmannschaft der Montanen, and then from 1807 to 1810 the University of Leipzig , where he studied law. His disputation dealt with the prerogatives of self-employed workers (“ De juribus singularibus Anturgon metallicorum ”). He was initially a mining authority assessor in Freiberg and from 1812 in Marienberg . In 1814 he joined a banner of volunteers Saxony and was but after 1816 as successor to Ernst Gottlob Wolf Gersdorf to Amtshauptmann the third erzgebirgischen appointed circle later Amtshauptmann teams in about Annaberg and Marienberg included. When the Niederforchheim manor from Schönherrschen was auctioned off in 1818 , Biedermann and the governor from the end bought it, but soon took it over into sole ownership. With his wife Karoline Dorothea geb. Tost, with whom he had been married since 1815, he moved into Forchheim on July 7, 1819. Thus, the manor became the seat of the administration.

Biedermann was chairman of the estates of the Erzgebirge district as well as canonicus of the Wurzen collegiate community . Between 1836/37 and 1862 he represented this several times in the first chamber of the Saxon state parliament . Between 1839 and 1848 he was the first secretary of the chamber. His contemporary Bernhard Hirschel counted him among the representatives of " genuine liberalism ". He also describes him as " long in stature, with a slightly pointed head, brunette face and elongated profile ". Biedermann also represented the 54th, 55th and 56th constituencies in the Landtag Chamber in 1849/50 . He resigned his office as governor in 1858. In Leipzig he joined the Freemason Lodge Minerva to the three palm trees .

family

He married Caroline Dorothea Tost on May 23, 1815 (born November 1, 1788). The couple had several children:

  • Gustav Woldemar (* March 5, 1817; † February 6, 1903), director of the Saxon Railway and well-known Goethe researcher ⚭ Antonie Henriette Leopoldine von Trützschler (* August 13, 1825; † 1908)
  • Moritz Oskar (born November 26, 1818), Saxon major general ⚭ 1847 Johann Marie Adelaide von Seelhorst (born March 23, 1822 - † October 10, 1874)
  • Cäcilie Clementine Adelaide (born October 6, 1820)
  • Delef Willibald (born October 23, 1822) ⚭ 1856 Elisabeth Clara Frederike von Grävenitz (born March 8, 1826)

Honors

The city of Annaberg honored Biedermann in 1859 by making him an honorary citizen .

literature

  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1856. Sixth year, p. 60f

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b New Saxon Church Gallery, Ephorie Marienberg, Sp. 250–252 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ a b Carl Wilhelm Hering : History of the Saxon highlands with special reference to the Lauterstein office. P. 139f ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952. Dresden 2001, p. 38
  4. ↑ Bernhard Hirschel: Saxony's government, estates and people , Mannheim 1846, p. 182 ( digitized version )
  5. ↑ Bernhard Hirschel: Saxony's government, estates and people , Mannheim 1846, pp. 257-259 ( digitized version )
  6. ↑ Ulrike Knoll: Biedermann, Traugott Andreas von . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
personal data
SURNAME Biedermann, Gustav Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Biedermann, Gustav Heinrich Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manor owner and politician, member of the Saxon state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1862
Place of death Forchheim