Siegmund Wilhelm Spitzner

Siegmund Wilhelm Spitzner (born March 14, 1764 in Oberalbertsdorf , † November 14, 1825 in Potsdam ) was a German Protestant theologian and lawyer . From 1809 until his death he held the office of mayor of the independent city of Potsdam.

Life and work

Born as the eldest son of the Evangelical Lutheran pastor Johann Andreas Spitzner (born August 19, 1726 in Oberalbertsdorf, † 1791 in Oberalbertsdorf) and his first wife Sophie Eleonore, née. Martius (* December 7, 1743 in Planitz ; † December 11, 1765 in Oberalbertsdorf), Siegmund Wilhelm studied from May 21, 1783, first theology at the University of Leipzig and then at the University of Wittenberg . Studying theology was a family tradition. After two years as a preacher in Saxony, he became tutor in Berlin for the children of the President of the Court of Justice Johann Daniel Woldermann. From 1792 to 1794, he studied law at the University of Halle .

In 1795 Spitzner entered the Prussian civil service as a trainee lawyer in Berlin . In 1797 he became an assessor at the police department in Potsdam and a member of the magistrate . In addition to the "Policey Directorate", he was also a member of the "Poor Directorate" and the "School Commission". As an administrative lawyer and from 1809 as mayor under the mayors Jakob Brunner and Wilhelm Sankt Paul, Spitzner, who was considered a "cheerful partner", left himself with the "arduous business of billeting" and "to make the house owners' s greatest relief" the "service facilities" of the city be concerned. In 1821 he was re-elected to the office of mayor. As a long-time civil servant who enjoyed popular recognition, Siegmund Wilhelm Spitzner was decorated with the Prussian General Decoration of Honor, 1st Class. He died on duty.

Marriage and offspring

On August 5, 1797, Spitzner married Johanne Constantine Julie Villaume, the youngest daughter of the royal brewing administrator Villaume, in the Heilig-Geist-Kirche . This marriage resulted in two daughters: Caroline Emilie Friederike Spitzner (* April 10, 1800 in Potsdam), who died of pulmonary edema at the age of six months , and Julie Wilhelmine Spitzner (* July 30, 1802 in Potsdam, ~ 6. September 1802 in the Heilig-Geist-Kirche in Potsdam; † December 9, 1872 in Potsdam). She married the Privy Councilor Gustav Runge (born December 21, 1789 in Bodenburg, † June 17, 1885 in Potsdam). Four daughters born in Bromberg between 1830 and 1841 are known to be descendants of this marriage .

literature

• Potsdam . In: Address calendar of the royal Prussian capital and residence cities Berlin and Potsdam, especially the high and lower colleges, instances and expeditions located there, to the year 1798 . Johann Friedrich Unger, Berlin 1798, pp. 1 ff. ( Books.google.com ), accessed on December 12, 2010

• New necrology of the Germans . Publishing house by Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, 3rd year, 1825, Ilmenau 1827, p. 1576 f. ( books.google.de ), accessed December 12, 2010

• Erich Weise (ed.): Family chronicle of the Spitzner family . Printed by and published by C. Heinrich, Dresden 1936, pp. 36, 40 and 46

• Silke Kamp: Between throne and ballotage. The first election of the city council in Potsdam . In: Christiane Buchner / Andreas Musil (ed.): The city council of Potsdam in the course of time . Universitätsverlag Potsdam, Potsdam 2010, p. 39 ff. ( Books.google.de ), accessed on July 30, 2011

• Albert Spitzner-Jahn: The Vogtland Spitzner family . Self-published, 2nd edition, Kamp-Lintfort 2011, pp. 10, 61 and 164