Karl Söffner

Karl Söffner (born December 25, 1773 in Seitsch , district of Guhrau , † February 3, 1837 in Neisse , province of Silesia ) was a Prussian lawyer.

Life

Karl Söffner was born as the son of Bernhard Söffner, princely pen gardener, and his wife Anna Elisabeth, b. Walter, born. He still had four siblings:

• Anton Blasius Petrus Söffner (born February 2, 1769 in Seitsch; † unknown);
• Joseph Söffner (born August 9, 1771 in Seitsch; † unknown);
• Barbara Antonia Appolonia Söffner (born January 7, 1778 in Seitsch; † unknown);
• Anabrosius Antoni Söffner (born January 17, 1784 in Seitsch; † unknown).

He attended the local elementary school and in 1784 at the age of 11 he went to the Catholic grammar school in Groß Glogau . He then studied for two years at the Leopoldina in Breslau . He wanted to study law, but his parents could only support him financially to study theology. Since his youth he used every opportunity to develop his musical talent by playing the violin, so that he even performed in concerts; in this way he was able to earn his living to study at the Leopoldina. He then attended the University of Halle and completed his law degree there; During his studies he was also given the office of librarian .

At the end of his studies, he traveled to Lauchstädt to visit the Wroclaw Prince-Bishop Joseph Christian Franz zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein , who was staying there as a bathing guest, in order to ask for his support. He then passed his auscultation exam within six weeks and as such was subordinated to Count Christian von Haugwitz for further training. When he was appointed general landscape director soon afterwards, Karl Söffner had another opportunity to meet the prince-bishop, who again promised to support him in the future as soon as he was qualified for the judge's office. After a year and a half he passed his second exam and the prince-bishop hired him in 1798 in his royal seat of Neisse as a senator for the magistrate and as an assessor for the judiciary. In 1804 he was appointed to the council and a member of the co-conductors at the court judge's office .

When in 1810 all the property of the episcopal principality of Neisse was secularized and the ecclesiastical authorities were placed under the immediate Prussian royal administration, Karl Söffner got the position of first assessor at the newly formed royal city court; In 1818 he was given the directorate of this court. In 1813 he was appointed royal judicial councilor and commissioner perpetuus for the districts of Neisse and Grottkau until he was appointed vice-director at the later royal principality court in Neisse, which had just been newly formed, in 1822. Due to the illnesses of the first director of this court, he also co-administered his post and was alone before the court from May 1835 to April 1836, followed by August Wentzel as director . In June 1836 Karl Söffner was appointed President of the Oberhofspitalkommission.

Due to the multitude of his tasks, his health suffered so much that he fell ill at the end of 1836 and died in February 1837.

In 1809 he had married Antonie, daughter of the k uk captain von Richter in Pressburg ; the marriage had a daughter.

Individual evidence

1. ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen, Volume 15, 1837, Part 1, pp. 178–180 . BF Voigt, 1839 ( google.de [accessed July 31, 2018]).