Wilhelm Christian Goßler

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Wilhelm Christian Goßler , also Gossler , (born May 9, 1755 in Magdeburg ; † 1835 or 1836 in Cologne ) was a Prussian war and domain councilor, Westphalian prefect and later a secret government and judicial councilor in Cologne.

Life

Origin and family

Wilhelm Goßler was the son of the Prussian war and domain councilor Christoph Goßler (1723–1791) and comes from the Goßler family . His brother was the Real Secret Chief Justice Conrad Christian Goßler , whose son Karl Gustav became Prussian State Chancellor in 1869 . His other brothers were the Prussian Privy Councilor of Justice, Supreme Audit and Court Judge Christoph Goßler (1752-1817) and the Prussian Tribunal Councilor August Wilhelm Goßler (1757-1825).

He was the father of, among other things, the assessor at the Berlin and Hamm Regional Court , a later Franciscan and author of theological writings by Friedrich Franz Theodor Goßler and the Prussian Higher Regional Court Judge Hermann Joseph Goßler .

Career

Wilhelm Goßler and his brothers received their education up to the age of 13 through private lessons at home. Then he went to the monastery school Our Dear Women in Magdeburg for four years . In 1773 he enrolled at the University of Halle and studied a. a. with Daniel Nettelbladt jurisprudence as well as cameralistics and chemistry . After three years he switched to the War and Domain Chamber as a trainee lawyer and was admitted to the major exam in 1780 .

After successfully completing his degree, he was an assessor and from 1787 a war and domain councilor in the newly appointed capital Magdeburg. As a surplus advice, the chamber gave him in February 1789 to the tax council Johann Michael Hintz (1733-1805), whose successor he had good prospects.

Even during his time at the War and Domain Chamber, he was repeatedly forced to demand salary, and after his transfer in 1789 he complained that he would never have been properly paid for his service. At the end of the 1790s he was appointed to the Ordinary Council of the Magdeburg Chamber.

With the French occupation of Magdeburg in the course of the Franco -Prussian War of 1806/1807 and the associated dissolution of the Chamber, Wilhelm Goßler lost his council position. In the newly founded Kingdom of Westphalia , he received an offer from the State Councilor Michel Louis Étienne Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély to fill the post of prefect in the newly created department of the Harz . Although he accepted the offer, in 1808 he accepted the vacancy of the Prefect of the Saale Department in Halberstadt . He stayed there until the kingdom was dissolved in 1813. In 1814 he was appointed Prussian Privy Councilor.

After the wars against France in 1813 and 1815 , Wilhelm Goßler went to Cologne as a Privy Councilor , where after 1816 he was given the title of Privy Councilor of Justice . In this function he was u. a. responsible for the promotion of Eberhard von Grootes to the Cologne district government .

In 1822 he was, together with Werner von Haxthausen , a founding member of the Nameless Society in Cologne, a civil servants and legal association that met mainly for artistic and philosophical exchange. Wilhelm Goßler died in Cologne in 1835 or 1836.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Publications of the historical association for the Lower Rhine in particular the old Archdiocese of Cologne . L. Schwann, 1967, p. 57 ( google.de [accessed on March 11, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Willi Spiertz: Eberhard von Groote . Life and work of a Cologne social politician and literary scholar (1789–1864) , Böhlau Verlag , Cologne, 2007, p. 130 + p. 148.
personal data
SURNAME Goßler, Wilhelm Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH 1835
Place of death Cologne