Christoph Adam Dörr

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Christoph Adam Dörr (* 1709 in Tübingen ; † 1788 there ) was a button maker and from 1768 mayor of Tübingen.

Life

Christoph Adam Dörr came from a family of craftsmen. His grandfather Nikolaus Dörr was a brewer in Birnheim near Frankfurt am Main . Dörr was a son of the Tübingen shoemaker Johann Nikolaus and his wife Anna Rosina geb. Schiller (married since 1707).

Christoph Adam Dörr was doing quite well financially. In 1735 he bought the first quarter of the centrally located house Holzmarkt 5. He then bought the house in quarters within a few years. He lived and ran his workshop in the house that he later passed on to his children.

Christoph Adam Dörr has participated publicly since 1744 by becoming a councilor. He held this office until 1758. In 1759 he became a relative of the court and from 1768 until his death he was also mayor of Tübingen.

Wives and offspring

Christoph Adam Dörr married Maria Regina born in 1733. Juda, daughter of a barber and court relative in Sulz am Neckar . After her very quick death he married Juliane Friederike geb. Hagmaier, daughter of the pastor of Beihingen am Neckar . He married for the third time in 1787, a year before his death, Elisabeta Catarina Löffler geb. Want.

Dörr and his second wife were the father of the Tübingen portrait painter Jakob Dörr and thereby grandfather of the painter Christoph Friedrich Dörr . He was also the father of the pastor of Kusterdingen Johann Christoph Dörr. He was also the father of Adam Friedrich Dörr, who like his father worked as a button maker, and thus the grandfather of the painter Carl Friedrich Dörr .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Rudolf Seigel: judgment and advice ... . P. 190
  2. ↑ Udo Rauch: Around the Holzmarkt , p. 124
  3. ^ Marriage contracts ( Memento from February 21, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer: The portrait in Württemberg 1760-1860. History, artists and culture , Stuttgart: Metzler 1939, p. 58.

literature

  • Udo Rauch: All about the wood market . In: Udo Rauch (ed.): The Tübinger Stadtbild im Wandel , Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-910090-11-7 , pp. 123-132
  • Rudolf Seigel: Court and Council in Tübingen. From the beginnings to the introduction of the municipal constitution 1818–1822 , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1960 (= publication of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg)
personal data
SURNAME Dörr, Christoph Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Button maker and mayor of Tübingen
DATE OF BIRTH 1709
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH 1788
Place of death Tübingen