Christoph Kommerell

Christoph Kommerell (born August 28, 1571 in Tübingen ; † December 29, 1642 there ) was a white tanner in Tübingen. He was also a councilor and court relative.

Life

Christoph Kommerell was the youngest of the childhood sons of the Tübingen baker Fabian Kommerell and his second wife Anna nee. Seckler. He did an apprenticeship as a tanner and later specialized as a white tanner. On the fourth Sunday after Easter (Cantate) 1594 he married Margarete Kienlin (born January 19, 1570 in Tübingen; † before 1597, daughter of Bernhard Kienlin from Kirchheim unter Teck ), with whom he had only one daughter because she died early. His second wife, whom he married on the 1st Sunday after Pentecost 1597, was Barbara b. Storr (* before 1580; † November 13, 1610), daughter of the Tübingen citizen Christoph Storr. He had ten children with her, but only four of them - a daughter and three sons - reached adulthood. With his third wife, Agnes (* around 1571; † 14 May 1646), the widow of Martin Keller in Tübingen, he also had a son.

Kommerell enjoyed a good reputation and was accepted as the third of the Kommerells - after his father and his older brother Nicolaus , who died on October 8, 1610 , apparently as a replacement for the latter in the Tübingen council. Council relative was verifiable since 1611, in 1635 he rose to court relative (until 1639).

Two of his sons took on the father's profession, two daughters married tanners, only one of his sons became a baker like his grandfather. Christoph Kommerell made a considerable fortune, he owned a house (worth 1,350 fl ) in Marktstrasse (today Marktgasse ). He left a notarized will on May 20, 1637, from which it emerges that the fair division of his property was very important to him. The house should keep his two sons Christoph and Johann Jacob, who had also become common Gerber and the claims of the other four siblings with other properties or ground rents to compensate. It also emerges that Christoph Kommerell had a falling out with his son-in-law, the red tanner Johann Jacob Betz. Kommerell's daughter Dorothea died eight months after marrying Betz, giving birth to a child who survived. Although Kommerell had enough reasons to completely exclude Betz from the inheritance, he decided to make the compulsory portion available to his grandchild, whom he apparently did not know. In order to ensure that the money only goes to the grandchildren and not to his father, the compulsory portion should be administered by a “guardian ordered by the authorities”.

children

with the first wife Margarete geb. Kienlin

• Anna Maria (February 2, 1596; † July 5, 1635, ⚭ November 26, 1616 Conrad Eippart (1593–1635), Rotgerber, son of Michael Eippart )

with the second wife, Barbara geb. Storr

• Hans David. (March 15, 1598 - February 25, 1602)
• Dorothea (born April 29, 1599; † December 22, 1630 in Tübingen, ⚭ April 20, 1630 Johann Jacob Betz (around 1606–1654), red tanner)
• Christoph (born September 5, 1601; † as a child)
• Barbara (April 28, 1602; † as a baby)
• Barbara (born September 4, 1603)
• Johann David (born December 25, 1604; † as a child)
• Christoph (March 4, 1606; † as a baby)
• (Jung) Christoph (born June 4, 1607; † before April 15, 1673), red tanner
• Johann David (born November 12, 1608; † February 17, 1652 (?) In Stuttgart)
• Johann Jacob (born January 15, 1610 - † August 25, 1677), white tanner

with the third wife, Agnes Keller

• Johann Martin (March 22, 1613 - January 2, 1656), baker

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Otto Kommerell: Family Chronicle Kommerell ... , p. 38
2. ↑ Rudolf Seigel: judgment and advice ... . P. 234
3. ↑ Otto Kommerell: Family Chronicle Kommerell ... , p. 39.

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)
• Otto Kommerell : Family Chronicle Kommerell. Family tree with 79 pictures and 15 tables drawn up between 1915–1942 , Frankfurt a. M.: Kramer 1943