Karl von Breitenstern

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Karl von Breitenstern (born June 25, 1777 in Wismar as Karl Christoph Augustin Breitsprecher ; † February 14, 1825 ibid) was a German lawyer, royal Swedish judicial councilor and mayor of Wismar. He promoted musical life in Wismar in a special way at the beginning of the 19th century.

Life

He was the son of Franz Philipp Breitsprecher , assessor and later Vice-President of the Upper Tribunal Wismar , who was ennobled by the Swedish king in 1788 as von Breitenstern . He attended school in Wismar, studied three years at the University of Jena and one year at the University of Göttingen . In 1800 he was a trainee lawyer at the court in Greifswald . In 1801 he became secretary in the royal governorate of Wismar and legal advisor for the offices of Poel and Neukloster . In 1803 he became syndic of the city of Wismar. During the French period von Breitsprecher, the mayor Emanuel Hermann Fabricius and the city secretary Walter were temporarily captured by the French troops under Louis Henri Loison in August 1813 .

In 1814 he became the city's first mayor and director of the consistory . In this function he was involved in the development of various municipal institutions and was considered a promoter of the sciences and the arts.

Even before his term as mayor, Karl von Breitenstern, who was interested in music, organized concerts in Wismar to which foreign artists were invited. He advocated the founding of a music association to support the training of talented musicians. At the end of 1816 he organized a music festival in the Nikolaikirche , at which around 100 choirs from Wismar and other cities in Mecklenburg and musicians from the Schwerin court orchestra performed together " The Creation " by Joseph Haydn . This first major joint performance of musical works in the region was followed by others over the next few years. In 1818 he founded a choral society in Wismar . With this choir and other foreign musicians, a total of more than 200 people, a performance of Georg Friedrich Handel's Judas Maccabaeus and the Requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart took place over two days in 1820 . He initiated an association devoted to instrumental music and another that performed operatic arias with piano accompaniment. His sister Ulrike von Breitenstern (1776-1828) also became known as a musician.

Already with his son, the bailiff and government secretary Gustav von Breitenstern in Dömitz , the noble family von Breitenstern went out.

literature

  • Breitenstein, Karl Christoph von . In: Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons . Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9 , p. 66.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Francke: Mecklenburgs Noth and Kampf before and in the war of liberation. Cossel, Wismar 1835, p. 271 ( Google books ).
  2. ^ Archives for regional studies in the Grossherzogthümen Mecklenburg and revue of agriculture. Volume 18, Sandmeyer, Schwerin 1868, p. 429 ( Google books )
  3. ^ General musical newspaper. 27th year, Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1825, Sp. 350–352 ( Google books )
  4. ^ General musical newspaper. 42nd year, Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1840, Sp. 83–84 ( Google books )
  5. ↑ Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1775). Tiedemann, Rostock 1864, pp. 37-38 ( Google books ).

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personal data
SURNAME Breitenstern, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breitenstern, Carl von; Breitenstern, Karl Christoph von; Broadspeaker, Karl Christoph (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, Mayor of Wismar
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Wismar
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1825
Place of death Wismar