Wilhelm Fischer (Bergmeister)

Wilhelm Fischer (born August 29, 1796 in Wurzen , † November 11, 1884 in Dresden ) was a Saxon mountain master.

Fischer memorial stone in Johanngeorgenstadt

Life

Fischer was enrolled at the Bergakademie Freiberg in 1813 . After completing his studies, he joined the Saxon civil service as a mining official. Between 1822 and 1823, Fischer was an assessor at the mining offices in Annaberg and Scheibenberg .

Fischer worked in Altenberg as a mining master and tithe since 1826 , and in 1827 moved to the Johanngeorgenstadt Mining Authority , where he also held the mining master function until 1834. Between 1835 and 1836 Fischer worked as a miner for the combined mining authority Marienberg with Geyer and Ehrenfriedersdorf .

On November 30, 1836, Fischer took up the job of a miner in Freiberg . From 1850 Fischer came under criminal investigation and was charged. Immediately after his acquittal, he applied for retirement on February 21, 1855 due to amnesia, which took place on August 30, 1855.

In Johanngeorgenstadt, Fischer made essential preparations for the merger of the various unions in Fastenberg, which was then realized in 1838 with the unification to form a union, United Field in Fastenberg . He also dealt with technical experiments and innovations in Johanngeorgenstadt, e.g. B. the development of a rope breaking machine, as well as the improvement in the processing and smelting of the ores.

In Freiberg he worked for the "Himmelfahrt Fundgrube ", the most important mine in the area.

From 1857 to 1859 he was one of the directors of the Gitterseer Steinkohlenbauverein .

Wilhelm Fischer, who had lived in Dresden since retiring, showed himself to be a patron of his former place of work, Johanngeorgenstadt. With a capital of 300 thalers, the former miner established the Haldensluster Gestift in 1865 , a foundation whose interest income was intended to support the relatives of unfortunate miners. Even after the city fire of 1867, he generously supported the city. With a subsequent donation in 1877, the hat house of the combined "Hohneujahr and Unverhofft Glück Fundgrube" (the horse gopel is now located there ) was to be bought and the Haldenslust dump was to be redesigned into a park. However, the donated money was not enough. The committee of the responsible mining district therefore decided to erect only a memorial stone for Wilhelm Fischer. However, there were protracted disputes about its establishment - not least because of the charges against Fischer in 1850. It was not until 1906 that the stone was erected not far from the Treue Freund Huthaus , far from the center of Johanngeorgenstadt. Only after the death of the operations director Ernst Rudolf Poller , Fischer's former opponent, in 1930 , was the monument to Wilhelm Fischer implemented on the Haldensluster Halde. The bronze medallion with the portrait of Fischer and the cast iron tablet did not survive the war and post-war years. The active for the preservation of monuments in the Kulturbund der GDR under the direction of the local writer and later honorary citizen Christian Teller caused the new production of both panels. The freshly restored memorial stone was unveiled on October 20, 1985 on Bergmann's Square . It was implemented in the Lapidarium at the Pferdegöpel in 1993 when it was rebuilt.

Honors

Fischergasse

The city of Johanngeorgenstadt appointed Wilhelm Fischer an honorary citizen on April 14, 1865 for his services and erected a memorial stone for him. An alley in the old town also bears his name, but after the demolition of the town center, which began in 1953, there are no longer any houses.

In 1873 Wilhelm Fischer was honored with the honorary citizenship of Wurzen .

literature

• Frank Teller : Mining and mining town Johanngeorgenstadt , Friends of Horse Göpel Johanngeorgenstadt 2001
• Carl Schiffner : From the life of old Freiberg mountain students , Vol. 3, Verlag E. Mauckisch, Freiberg 1940

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wurzen # honorary citizen