Johann Georg Gottschald

Johann Georg Gottschald. Painting on tin-plated iron sheet

Johann Georg Gottschald (* 1691 or 1692 in Wildenthal ; † March 23, 1749 ) was an early modern German entrepreneur .

The son of a hammer mill owner in Wildenthal in the western Ore Mountains studied after attending school and acquired the title of jur. praet. and was called a famous legal adviser during his lifetime . As a partner he acquired u. a. significant shares in the two hammer mills Wittigsthal in Saxony and Breitenbach in Bohemia as well as the hammer mill in Breitenbach. Later he became the sole hammer mill owner and court lord of Wittigsthal and Breitenbach and led the combined hammer mills on both sides of the border to a new boom. He also owned the Schlössel hammer mill in Hammerunterwiesenthal and the Habichtsberg estate near Cranzahl .

In 1718 he married Maria Regina Fischer, the daughter of Hammerherrn von Schlössel. Their daughter died in 1725 at the age of 4½ years. Three years later, Gottschald had an inheritance burial built for his family in the Johanngeorgenstadt cemetery, which is still there today. His widow died in Wittigsthal in 1766.

Two portraits of the Gottschald couple, painted on tin-plated sheet iron, in the Evangelical-Lutheran town church of Johanngeorgenstadt were stolen on the night of November 19-20, 1991 and have since disappeared.

literature

• Stolen valuable paintings. Unknown perpetrators entered the church via scaffolding. In: Free Press. Local editions Aue and Schwarzenberg from November 22, 1991.
• Götz Altmann : Erzgebirge iron. History, technology, folk culture . Saxon Printing and Publishing House, Dresden 1999, ISBN 3-933442-31-1 , p. 161.
• Frank Teller : Mining and mining town Johanngeorgenstadt. (1654-1945). Friends of Horse Göpel Johanngeorgenstadt, Johanngeorgenstadt 2001.
• Joachim Kunze: Stories from the history of Wiesenthal - A popular scientific chronicle of the Kurort Oberwiesenthal. City administration Kurort Oberwiesenthal, Oberwiesenthal 2002, p. 170.