Johann Georg Hartmann

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Johann Georg Hartmann

Johann Georg Hartmann (born February 19, 1731 in Plieningen near Stuttgart, † June 9, 1811 in Stuttgart ) was a Württemberg court and domain councilor.

family

Johann Georg Hartmann was the son of the ducal-Württemberg chief mare master at the main stud in Marbach Georg Hartmann (1710–1796) and Magdalena born. Koch (* 1708), daughter of the miller Otto Leonhard Koch.

In 1761 he married Juliane Friederike geb. Spittler (1739-1799). They had eleven children (seven sons and four daughters), with one son and two daughters dying early. Among them were August von Hartmann , State Councilor and President of the Chamber of Accounts; Ludwig von Hartmann , industrial pioneer and founder of the Hartmann group of companies ; Friedrich von Hartmann , doctor and natural scientist (paleontologist), and Ferdinand Hartmann , director of the Art Academy in Dresden.

life and work

Hartmann attended high school in Stuttgart and then trained as a clerk. In 1753 he was appointed forage administrator at the royal stables in Stuttgart. His professional ascent as a camerawoman was steep, and in 1761 he became a member of the chamber council. In 1767 he was appointed to the real councilor in the council of the Rentkammer. Among other things, he was responsible for the department for stables and stud matters. From 1789 he was appointed court and domain councilor. The relationship between Hartmann and the difficult Duke Karl Eugen was not untroubled. Nevertheless, in 1781 he had turned down a tempting offer to serve Frederick the Great . In 1806 he was released into retirement by King Friedrich .

Hartmann's real importance lay in the dignity of his personality. Without being artistically or poetically productive himself, despite his financially modest situation, he understood how to make his house in Stuttgart a unique center of intellectual literary life of his time. The Hartmannschen Haus was visited by the poet and philosopher Karl Philipp Conz , the poet and journalist Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart , the epigrammatists Friedrich Christoph Weisser and Friedrich Haug , the artists Nicolas Guibal and JG Müller . A frequent guest was Johann Kaspar Schiller , whose book on fruit tree cultivation Hartmann edited. When Schiller's son, the poet Friedrich Schiller , came to Stuttgart for the first time in 1793, he first went to Hartmann, who found him an apartment and was with him almost every day. As early as 1779, Duke Karl August von Weimar and Goethe had been referred to him from Switzerland and were accompanied by him for a week in Stuttgart and the surrounding area. Even Friedrich Nicolai visited during his trip to southern Germany in 1781 Johann Georg Hartmann and praised in his travelogue whose scientific insights and personal kindness.

In 1774 Hartmann was a founding member of the Stuttgart Freemason Lodge Zu den Drei Cedern until its dissolution by Duke Karl Eugen in 1780. He was also a member of the learned societies in Ludwigsburg, Petersburg, Zurich and Bern. Through various publications, primarily about horse breeding, he had made a name for himself far beyond Württemberg. He filled the few years of retirement with scientific work. Most of it, however, remained unprinted. From a decades-long collection of Württemberg laws, he was only able to print the marriage and church laws in 4 volumes, three of them at his own expense.

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SURNAME Hartmann, Johann Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartmann, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wuerttemberg camera operator
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1731
PLACE OF BIRTH Plieningen
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1811
Place of death Stuttgart