Karl Bergfeld

Karl Christian Caesar Bergfeld (born May 23, 1811 in Weimar ; † April 19, 1896 there ) was a German civil servant and politician .

Life

Bergfeld was the son of the court theater cashier Johann Georg Hector Bergfeld and his wife Clara Ortelli. Bergfeld, who was an Evangelical Lutheran denomination, married Luise Friederike Theyson on May 7, 1840 in Eisenach (born June 1, 1815 in Eisenach, † July 3, 1874 in Weimar), the daughter of the merchant Ernst Conrad Ludwig Theyson.

Bergfeld first received home tuition and then attended the candidate school and from the tertia the grammar school in Weimar . From 1830 to 1834 he studied law in Jena and in 1834 became an actuary at the criminal court in Weimar. In the fall of 1834 he moved to the Blankenhain Justice Office . From 1835 he worked at the state tax office in Weimar before becoming secretary at the Oberpostkommission in Eisenach in 1837 and secretary at Thurn und Taxis's postal office in Frankfurt am Main in 1839 . From 1841 he was chamber councilor in Weimar and was there in 1848 a lecturing council ( councilor of state ) in the finance department. In 1849 he became director of the finance department of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach and deputy head of the department. In 1869 he was additionally chairman of the Postimmediatkommission and in 1870 also director of the board of the German life insurance bank Gotha . On January 1, 1883, he retired. He was also active as a Thuringian state and local historian.

politics

In 1850 he was a member of the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament . From 1862 to 1867 he was a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach for the constituency of the highest taxable persons in the 1st administrative district (Weimar) .

Awards

In 1878 he became a Privy Councilor of State and in 1882 a Privy Councilor . He was a first class knight of the Grand Ducal Saxon House Order of Vigilance or of the White Falcon. In 1857 he became a commander , and in 1873 he was awarded the star.

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: Members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, Vol. 6). Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , p. 76.

Web links

• Bergfeld, Karl in the German Biography (DB)