The study presents an edition of the manuscript autobiography of Johann Anton Pohl (1726–after 1802), head of the General Tax Accounting Office in Opava. The text Wahrhafte Lebens-Geschichte eines Un-genannten von ihm selbst beschrieben originates from the former castle library in Štáblovice and represents a valuable ego-document of the late Enlightenment period. The autobiography traces the professional career of an official in Habsburg Silesia while simultaneously reflecting his self-fashioning efforts to preserve his own image and memory. The study analyses the manuscript with regard to social mobility, mentality, and career strategies of the middle-class bureaucracy, and at the same time defines the editorial procedures, including the use of modern OCR technology in the transcription of German Neo-Gothic (Fraktur) script.