Karl Wilhelm August Porsche

Karl Wilhelm August Porsche (born September 2, 1786 in Zittau ; † May 14, 1840 in Leipzig ) was a German lawyer and local politician.

Life

Karl Wilhelm August Porsche was born as the son of Johann Christoph Porsche (November 27, 1748 in Friedersdorf bei Zittau; † June 7, 1798 in Zittau), senior lawyer in Zittau, and his wife Victoria, b. Schöps, born of the family that founded the bookstore of the same name in Zittau in 1705. His brother Karl Ernst August Porsche (* 1787; † unknown) was later an economics commissioner and chamber commissioner in Dresden .

He attended the local high school (today: Christian-Weise-Gymnasium ) until 1798; Due to the death of his father, he dropped out of high school and began an apprenticeship as a merchant in Breslau , but he also broke off this training in 1799 because he wanted to study. For this reason, he returned to Zittau and attended grammar school again, which he then successfully completed. His teachers were August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph (1771–1826), Johann Gottfried Kneschke (1766–1825), Ferdinand Heinrich Lachmann (1770–1848) and Christian Heinrich Reichel (1734–1807)

In 1806 he began to study law and cameralia at the University of Leipzig , attended lectures by Christian Gottlieb Haubold , among other things , and received the grade "very good" in the examination at the law faculty. During his studies he was employed as a secretary by Professor Christian Daniel Erhard (Embarrassing Law ) and stayed in the house of the lawyer Karl Friedrich Günther , who was later elected the highest Saxon legal scholar of a university.

After his return to Zittau, Karl August Wilhelm Porsche practiced as a lawyer for some time, became orphanage actuary (secretary) in 1811, council actuary in 1814 and town clerk in 1817 . In 1826 he was elected to the city council, appointed as Scubinus (judge) and he became a member of the school commission.

Over time, he received 18 different job offers and turned them all down because he did not want to leave Zittau. Only when the 19th offer from the Leipzig city council to become a city councilor was made to him in 1831 did he accept.

Shortly after he took up his post as a city councilor in Leipzig, he became head of the community school and, in 1834, head of the city's secondary school, which had been newly founded, and the second community school. He was responsible for the administration of the town's estates, for the beautification of the Rose Valley and the administration of the poor.

He belonged to the concert management of the Gewandhaus , of which he was secretary for a while.

He was married to Wilhelmine, a daughter of the superintendent from Eckartsberga Christian Gotthelf Lommatzsch, her brother was the Annaberg superintendent Dr. Karl Heinrich Friedrich Lommatzsch (1772–1834) he and his wife had three daughters.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhard Friedrich Voight: New nekrolog der Deutschen ... BF Voigt, 1842 ( google.de [accessed on January 31, 2018]).
2. ↑ Leipzig biography. Accessed January 31, 2018 . 
3. ^ New Lusatian magazine: Journal of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences, pp. 160–161 . Oettel, 1840 ( google.de [accessed January 31, 2018]).
4. ↑ Lexicon of the Upper Lusatian writers and artists who have died and are now living since the fifteen centuries. 2nd edition Anton, 1803 ( google.de [accessed February 1, 2018]).
5. ^ Christian Adolph Pescheck: Handbook of the history of Zittau . in Commission of the JD Schöpfische Buch- und Kunsthandlung, 1837 ( google.de [accessed on February 1, 2018]).