Caspar Bernet

Caspar Bernet (also Kaspar Bernet ; born January 9, 1698 in St. Gallen ; † September 29, 1766 ibid) was a mayor of St. Gallen ( Switzerland ).

Life

Caspar Bernet was the son of his father of the same name Caspar Bernet (* November 20, 1668 - November 6, 1742), weaver and sub-mayor of St. Gallen, and his wife Elisabeth (* December 7, 1666 - September 14, 1711), a daughter of Christian Huber, born. His half-brother was Hans Joachim Bernet , Mayor of St. Gallen.

He was a canvas weaver and rose through various guild offices to the mayor's office, which he held from 1754 to 1759, alternating annually with Hans Jacob Rietmann (1677-1756) in 1755, Daniel Högger in 1756 and Christoph Wegelin (1688-1774) in 1758 exercised; Before that, he was appointed to the public office of raw viewer (quality control) in 1734, that of raw viewer in 1737, was elected to the Great Council in 1743 and as a guild master and sub-mayor in 1745; In 1748 he was fiefdom bearer of St. Catharina . In his capacity as mayor, he took part in several meetings .

Militarily he rose from 1739 from sergeant to captain in 1744.

In 1757 he established the family legacy .

Caspar Bernet was first married to Helena (* November 16, 1700; † May 23, 1743), daughter of Peter Stähelin, weaver and sub-mayor, and his second marriage to Anna Barbara (* 1702; † 1762), daughter of Daniel Girtanner , Dyer and city ​​judge , married. The names of his children are known:

• Johann Joachim Bernet (* 1725; † unknown), city judge, member of the Grand Council, guild master, councilor and fiefdom holder of the court estates as well as tax master in 1778 and conductor in the Rhine Valley in 1778 and city treasurer in 1783
• Kaspar Bernet (born October 7, 1735; † unknown), 1772 city judge and member of the Grand Council, 1777 guild master , 1781 councilor and then post office administrator and carer of Linsenbühl .

literature

• Kaspar Bernet. In: Hans Jakob Holzhalb: Supplement to the general Helvetian-Confederate or Swiss Lexicon. 1. Part, A – D, Zurich 1881, p. 214 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
• Caspar Bernet. In: Verena Sigrist: The school donor book of St. Gallen. 4th part. Yearbook of the Swiss Archives for Heraldry, Volume 87, 1973, p. 214 (PDF; 14.98 MB).
• August Naef : Chronicle or Memories of the City and Landscape of St. Gallen. With the epitome of the related Appenzell events. From the oldest to the more recent. Friedrich Schulthess, Zurich, Scheitlin, St. Gallen 1867, p. 65 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

• Marcel Mayer: Bernet, Caspar. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .