List of Saxon miners

The Saxon Mining Captain or Oberberghauptmann is the respective highest official of the Saxon Oberbergamt .

Headquarters of the Mountain captain is the Saxon Mining Authority in Freiberg .

Miners Captains (selection)

image	Years of office	Surname	title	annotation
	1558-1584	Wolf von Schönberg zu Neusorge, Knauthain and Frankenberg	Chief captain
	1584-1588	Lorenz von Schönberg on Oberreinsberg	Miner captain
	1588-1616	Heinrich von Schönberg on Rechenberg, Purschenstein and Frauenstein	Chief captain
	1616-1628	Caspar Rudolph von Schönberg on Wilsdruff and Maxen	Miner captain
	1628-1650	Georg Friedrich von Schönberg on Mittelfrohna and Pfaffroda	Miner captain	Co-organizer of the defense of Freiberg from the Swedes in the Thirty Years War
	1650-1676	Caspar von Schönberg on Mittelfrohna, Pfaffroda, Dörnthal	Mining captain, from 1670 chief mining captain
	1676-1711	Abraham von Schönberg	Chief miner	is considered bedeutendster chief mining from among the family of Schoenberg led the miner greeting Good luck in the Erzgebirge an already organized as Bergkommissionsrat the revival of the Thirty Years' War collapsed mining since 1670 of mines, called 1702 a mountain scholarship fund to finance training by mining professionals to life ( Predecessor institution of Bergakademie Freiberg )
	1711-1714	Hans Carl von Carlowitz	Chief miner	wrote Sylvicultura oeconomica, or haußwirthliche message and natural instruction for wild tree breeding (1713), the first complete work on forestry , is considered to be the creator of the forestry concept of sustainability
	1714-1730	Christoph Dietrich Vitzthum von Eckstädt	Chief miner
	1730-1733	Carl Christian von Tettau on Mügeln and Heidenau	Chief miner
	1733-1734	Hans Carl von Kirchbach	Miner captain
	1734-1761	Curt Alexander von Schönberg on Oberschöna, Wingendorf and Hainichen	Chief miner	last mining captain or chief miner from the ranks of the von Schönberg family , at the same time Russian general mining director
	1761-1763	Peter Nicolaus von Gartenberg	Chief miner	Friend of Heinrich von Brühl , deposed as chief miner after his death
	1763-1769	Friedrich Wilhelm von Oppel	Chief miner	Co-founder of the Bergakademie Freiberg , donated his private collection of minerals, books and mining models as the basis for the collections of the Bergakademie
	1769-1785	Adam Friedrich von Ponickau	Chief miner
	1789-1801	Carl Wilhelm Benno von Heynitz	Miner captain
	1801-1819	Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebra	Chief miner	matriculated as the first student at the newly founded Bergakademie Freiberg , co-founder of the first scientific society of mining science ("Societät der Bergbaukunde")
	1819-1821	Georg Adolph von Gutschmid	Miner captain
	1821-1838	Sigismund August Wolfgang von Herder	Chief miner	promoted the introduction of machines in the Saxon mining industry, initiated the annual publication of the "Calendar for the Saxon Miner and Hüttenmann" (annual statistical report) from 1827, developed the first drafts for a deep drainage tunnel in the Freiberg district ( Rothschönberger Stolln )
	1838-1842	Johann Carl Free Life	Miner captain	is considered to be the founder of the stratigraphic part of geognosy for northern Germany
	1844-1867	Friedrich Constantin von Beust	Chief miner	The last Saxon chief miner, the first lawyer in this function, resigned from his position in protest against the newly drawn up Saxon mining law (passed in 1868), which downgraded the Oberbergamt to a mere supervisory authority
	1924-1929	Albert Borchers	Miner captain
	1929-1940	Hermann Niess	Miner captain	First Dr.-Ing. the Bergakademie Freiberg
	1940-1945	Friedrich Wernicke	Miner captain	last Saxon miner
	1945-1946	Walther Weigelt	Miner captain	last Saxon mining captain ( SBZ )
	1991-2011	Reinhard Schmidt	Chief miner	from 1991 to 2010 president of the Oberbergamt, which was re-established in 1991, since 19 December 2010 chief miner
	2011 -	Bernhard Cramer	Chief miner

See also

• List of Prussian miners

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rüdiger Schönberg: History of the family v. Schönberg in Saxony. (Pdf; 73 kB) Retrieved March 15, 2012 . 
2. ^ Obituary in the yearbook for mining and metallurgy in Saxony 1929 ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Saxony has a chief miner again. December 19, 2010, accessed November 23, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Saxony gets a new chief miner. August 30, 2011, archived from the original on September 12, 2011 ; Retrieved March 15, 2012 . 

literature

• Walter Fischer: 400 years of the Saxon Mining Authority Freiberg (1542-1942). The importance of this service for the development of geology and reservoir science. In: Journal of the German Geological Society 95 (1943), pp. 143-183
• Herbert Kaden : The mining administration of Albertine Saxony under Duke / Elector Moritz between 1542 and 1548. In: Mitteilungen des Freiberger Altertumsverein 72 (1992), pp. 36–46
• Herbert Kaden: Freiberg's mining administration in the first half of the 16th century. In: Mitteilungen des Freiberger Altertumsverein 78 (1997), pp. 25–31
• Herbert Kaden: The beginning of the development of a middle mining administration in Albertine Saxony around the middle of the 16th century. In: Mitteilungen des Freiberger Altertumsverein 93 (2003), pp. 23–83
• Sächsisches Oberbergamt (Ed.): 450 years of the Saxon Oberbergamt Freiberg. Freiberg 1993.

Web links

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