Bartholome Schiess

Bartholome Schiess (* 2. November 1625 in Herisau ; † 24. June 1697 ibid ; heimatberechtigt ) was a Swiss businessman , longtime member of the Small Council and Tagsatzung envoy from the canton of Appenzell Outer Rhodes .

Life

Bartholome Schiess was the son of Johannes Schiess and Elsbeth Kuhn. In 1648 he married Anna Schlumpf, daughter of Daniel Schlumpf, Junker, of St. Gallen .

Schiess initially worked as a businessman and paper maker. In 1665 his trade mark was entered in the trade mark register of the Lyon merchants . Together with his brother Ulrich Schiess, he built the Bleiche Moosberg in Herisau in 1666 . From 1669 to 1674 he ran the paper and grain mill in Kubel (municipality of Stein AR). From 1664 to 1665 he served as a regional ensign in Ausserrhoder. From 1665 to 1668 he was the delegate of the Diet five times and from 1665 to 1675 he was the state governor. Schiess accepted his dismissal in 1675 only with displeasure and provoked a defamation process. In 1653 he led an Appenzeller company against the peasant uprising in Entlebuch and attended the negotiations in Zofingen .

literature

Ernst H. Koller and Jakob Signer: Appenzell's coat of arms and gender book. Bern: Stämpfli 1926, p. 279.
Thomas Fuchs: Milling - Bluing - Sawing: 250 mills in the Appenzellerland. Herisau: Verlag Appenzeller Hefte 2005.

Web links

Thomas Fuchs: Bartholome Schiess. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 20, 2012 , accessed May 18, 2020 .

Individual evidence

↑ On the function of the state offices (state builder, state ensign, state governor, governor) cf. Otto Tobler: Development and functions of the state offices in Appenzell A. Rh. From the end of the 14th century to the present. Diss. University of Bern 1905. In: Appenzellische Jahrbücher 34 (1906), pp. 1–164, here above all from p. 71. Web access via e-periodica.ch.

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personal data
SURNAME	Shoot, Bartholome
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss entrepreneur, member of the government and representative of the daily articles
DATE OF BIRTH	November 2, 1625
PLACE OF BIRTH	Herisau
DATE OF DEATH	June 24, 1697
Place of death	Herisau

[1] On the function of the state offices (state builder, state ensign, state governor, governor) cf. Otto Tobler: Development and functions of the state offices in Appenzell A. Rh. From the end of the 14th century to the present. Diss. University of Bern 1905. In: Appenzellische Jahrbücher 34 (1906), pp. 1–164, here above all from p. 71. Web access via e-periodica.ch.