Johann Georg von Wichmannshausen

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Johann Georg Burckhardt von Wichmannshausen (* 1710 ; † June 18, 1787 in Freiberg ) was an electoral Saxon secret chamber councilor, chamber and mountain ridge. He was a member of the Chamber Council of Electoral Saxony, was director of the accounting deputation and deputy director of the Berggemach.

Origin and family

Wichmannshausen was the eldest son of the Electoral Saxon Chamber and Mountain Council as well as the chief director of the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Johann Georg Burckhardt von Wichmannshausen († 1750), heir, feudal lord and court lord of Tauscha and his wife Hanna Elisabeth née Seyfert. His grandfather Georg Gabriel Wichmannshausen († 1720) was raised to the nobility in 1717.

Wichmannshausen had six siblings; his younger brother was the theologian and philosopher Rudolph Friedrich von Wichmannshausen . After his father died in Tauscha on September 7, 1750, the youngest brother, Lieutenant Georg Gabriel von Wichmannshausen, inherited the Tauscha manor. However, he died in January 1751 at the age of 30. Then the siblings sold the manor Tauscha in the same year for 22,000 thalers to the district chamberlain Wolf Siegfried Curt von Lüttichau on Ulbersdorf and Krumhermsdorf .

Live and act

Johann Georg von Wichmannshausen, like his father of the same name, studied law at the University of Wittenberg and then learned mining science. On July 12, 1737 he was appointed Mining Commissioner and Assessor of the Oberbergamt in Freiberg. Due to his successful work in various commissions, he was appointed real mountain ridge in 1769.

Wichmannshausen's specialty was mining law; he had profound knowledge of the mining regulations, ordinances under mining law, orders and jurisdiction in Electoral Saxony and numerous other states. Johann Georg von Wichmannshausen put together a multi-volume chronological collection of mining law, the content of which, with a large number of rescripts, went far beyond the Codex Augusteus . These served him as a working basis for the preparation of mining law reports for the Berggemach and Oberbergamt. In 1784 he wrote a multi-volume Collectanea on the Saxon mining authorities, the Saigerhütte Grünthal and the blue color works. Because of his enormous knowledge, Wichmannshausen was considered the "living archive" of the Oberbergamt.

Johann Georg von Wichmannshausen died after being sick for five days at the age of 77. He held the post of senior mining authority assessor for 50 years. On June 21, 1787, his body was transferred to the Annenkapelle at the Freiberg Cathedral in a miners' funeral procession, where he was buried next to the chief miner Adam Friedrich von Ponickau, who had died three years earlier.

In a will, he bequeathed his library, manuscripts, collectanees, step collection, cracks, weapons and musical instruments to his nephew, Ludewig von Brandenstein, the Princely Schaumburg Chamberlain. For a sum of 200 thalers, the Saxon mining administration acquired the 130-volume manuscripts on Saxon mining, its history, constitution and rights for the Oberbergamtsarchiv.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Death of Johann Georg von Wichmannshausen, Bergrat and Oberbergamtsassessor, 1787-1790
  2. ^ The Wichmannshausensche Collectanea and the collection of laws are now largely preserved in the Freiberg Oberbergamt archives in the Freiberg mountain archive.
personal data
SURNAME Wichmannshausen, Johann Georg von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Saxon Privy Councilor, Chamber and Bergrat
DATE OF BIRTH 1710
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1787
Place of death Freiberg