Sigmund Haffner the Younger

Sigmund Haffner the Younger , Haffner Edler von Innbachhausen since 1782 (born September 30, 1756 in Salzburg ; † June 24, 1787 ibid) was the son of a large Salzburg merchant family. He lived as a privateer and was a philanthropist and patron .

Life

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The source given in the article here https://www.breitkopf.com/assets/pdf/PB5373_Vw_de.pdf states that Haffner d. J. continued his father's business.

Sigmund Haffner the Elder J. was a son of Sigmund Haffner the Elder. Ä. and his second wife Maria Eleonora Apollonia Metzger and the last of their four children. After his father's death in 1772, at the age of 15, he did not take over his father's business because he suffered from tuberculosis . In his place, his brother-in-law Anton Triendel, who was married to his eldest sister Marie Anna from his father's first marriage, took over the management of the trading company in return for a share of the profit, which is also reflected in Sigmund Haffner the Elder's will. Ä. so set. On July 29, 1782 he was raised to the imperial nobility with the predicate "Edler von Innbachhausen", because of his services and those of his father to Austria and the fact that the trading house became known throughout Germany. It is known that he avoided large companies and moved with a smaller circle of friends.

Philanthropic activity

Crypt 39 ( Petersfriedhof Salzburg): Haffner'sche Grablege, in which Sigmund Haffner the Elder is also located. Ä. and Sigmund Haffner d. J. are buried

With the inherited fortune, which is said to have amounted to around 70,000 guilders , he financially supported those affected by floods and fires. For example, in 1781, when he heard the news of the Radstadt fire, he sent 2,000 guilders there. He also distributed alms to poor citizens and made it possible for newlyweds who could not afford to get married. In his will there are generous donations etc. a. for the orphanages he built, welfare institutions such as the citizen hospital and the leprosy house, the Ursuline school, the poor student cash desk, for the St. Johanns Spital, a poor institute to be founded and various monasteries. In addition to his family, he also considered his domestic servants. In total, the total amount of money listed in the will amounted to 1,104,800 guilders. Sigmund Haffner appointed his nephew Sigmund Triendel, who continued the Haffner trading company, as a universal heir. Since he was the last of his family to die unmarried and childless, the Haffner family in Salzburg went out with him. The grave of Sigmund Haffner d. J. is located at the Petersfriedhof in Salzburg.

Haffner and the Mozart family

He was known to the Mozart (family) , which emerges from the Mozart letters, in which, in addition to some character traits, u. a. comment on his marriage intentions. There it is also clear that he cultivated a somewhat unconventional lifestyle and views for a man of his class. Leopold Mozart wrote to his wife and son on May 3, 1778:

“Now another amazing folly; a fruit of bad upbringing and the sad consequence of the too much freedom that has been given to Sigmund Hafner since he was here. He was always allowed to live all alone with his stable boy in his house in Loreto, without worrying about his performance. Now he will buy Seeburg Castle, which belongs to Count Ernst Lodron, for 30000 f and then Hayrathen. - but who? - the cook (Maria Anna Meindl from Uttendorf in the Innviertel) from the deceased count is a hideous black person, with a thin, large-eyed monkey face. She is not far from Drum, the landlady's daughter from Uttendorf in Bavaria. As soon as the colonel died, she was chased away for bad housekeeping; then NB NB, it was all about the colonel. the simple-minded Hafner Sigerl will therefore harass them for their chastity. - You can easily imagine that the H: H: brothers-in-law and the whole Löbl: proud sales team are very upset about this deal, all the more because they all don't even know whether he has already been sprouted, Then last April he drove with his Lucretia with a whole equipagge in Hellbrunn in the afternoon, then from there to H: Brother-in-law Spath in the former Amandhof, /: which Spathin bought: / they were there overnight, [...] so has one suspects a wedding that has already taken place - which I don't believe. "

- Leopold Mozart :

One learns from a letter from Leopold that the wedding and the castle purchase did not take place because Sigmund was still under guardianship and later probably no longer showed any interest in this woman. Sigmund Haffner the Elder was married. J. never. Sigmund Haffner went down in history as the commissioner or at least namesake of two works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:

• The eight-movement “Haffner Serenade” KV 250, written in 1776 for the wedding evening of Sigmund's sister Maria Elisabeth (1753–1781) with the trading factor Franz Xaver Späth (1750–1808), which is said to have been written by him in the garden house in Loreto , and
• Another six-movement serenade that was written and performed on the occasion of the ascension of the nobility in the summer of 1782. Mozart reworked this second "hafner = musique " into a four-movement symphony at the beginning of 1783, which was performed on March 23, 1783 in the Vienna Burgtheater (" Haffner Symphony " [Symphony in D major KV 385]).

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Hafner von Imbachhausen, Sigmund . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 7th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1861, pp. 191–193 ( digitized version ).
• Robert Landauer: Contributions to the Salzburg family history: 10. Hafner von Innbachhausen, in: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde Volume 69 (1929) p. 77 f, in: Martin, Franz (Hg): Hundert Salzburger Familien, Salzburg 1946, p. 59 f.
• International Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg. Collected and explained by Wilhelm A. Bauer and Otto Erich Deutsch (Hg): Mozart. Letters and Notes. Complete edition, Kassel 1963.
• Province of Salzburg and International Salzburg Association (ed.): Salzburger Mozart Lexikon, Bad Honnef 2005, pp. 150–153.
• Rudolph Angermüller: “A blessed human friend”: Sigmund Hafner, Edler und Ritter zu Innbachhausen (1756–1787), in: Association “Friends of Salzburg History” (ed.): Salzburg Archive 33, Salzburg 2008, pp. 225–2260.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ International Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg. Collected and explained by Wilhelm A. Bauer and Otto Erich Deutsch (Hrsg.): Mozart. Letters and Notes. Complete edition, Kassel 1963, 448 / 92–114.
2. ^ Foreword to the new Urtext edition of Mozart's Symphony KV 385 published by Breitkopf und Härtel, 2013.