Christoph Caspar

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Christoph Caspar (born August 13, 1614 in Tübingen ; † June 25, 1666 in Stuttgart ) was a Württemberg merchant , mayor of Tübingen, member of the select committee of the landscape and finally landscape conqueror in Stuttgart.

Life

Christoph Caspar was a son of the Tübingen merchant and court relative Rudolf Caspar the Elder and his wife Maria. He attended the Schola anatolica Latin school in Tübingen. In 1624 he traveled to France to gain experience in trading. After his return he initially worked in his father's shop, but in 1628 he started his own business as a trader by taking it over. In the same year he married Maria Margaretha Grimmeiß (* July 1, 1607; † February 9, 1666), a daughter of Bernhard Grimmeiß from Waiblingen . With her he had a daughter, Maria Margaretha Caspar (born July 18, 1629 in Tübingen; † Nov. 1, 1670 in Stuttgart). He was also related to the court in 1628.

Since the Thirty Years' War was raging at that time , he went into the field. In 1632 he became Cornet . In Tübingen it was safe again in 1635, perhaps as early as 1634, and in 1636 he became mayor. Since 1638 he was also a landscape delegate and a member of the select committee of the landscape. He may have held this office before. In 1646 he renounced all of his four offices in order to be able to capture the landscape. He moved to Stuttgart and held the office of landscape conqueror until his death in 1666.

literature

  • 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)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Rudolf Seigel: Court and Council ... , pp. 187/188
  2. ↑ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg: Holdings J 67: Collection of printed funeral speeches and other special occasion speeches (with files relating to the funeral sermon collections of the Württ. Landesbibliothek and the Princely Hohenlohische Archiv in Neuenstein)
  3. ↑ Family data of the Martinszeller Family Foundation. ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ In resignation he calls himself Rudolf, probably using this as his middle name. - Rudolf Seigel: Court and Council ... , p. 188
personal data
SURNAME Caspar, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Merchant, general, mayor of Tübingen, landscape deputy, member of the select committee of the landscape and landscape occupants
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1614
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1666
Place of death Stuttgart