Conrad Zellweger-Tanner

Conrad Zellweger Tanner (* 30th October 1659 in Trogen , † 17th February 1749 ibid ; heimatberechtigt in Trogen) was a Swiss businessman , textile entrepreneur, counselor, longtime member of the Small Council and Landammann from the canton of Appenzell Outer Rhodes .

Life

Conrad Zellweger-Tanner was a son of Conrad Zellweger . In 1691 he married Maria Magdalena Tanner, daughter of Laurenz Tanner . After completing his commercial training from 1679 to 1683 in a St. Gallen trading house in Lyon , Zellweger is said to have barely escaped the persecution of Huguenot religious refugees. Back in Trogen, he worked as a factor for foreign merchants, especially for Hans Conrad Hutsch in Feldkirch . From 1692 to 1698, Zellweger was councilor and clerk of the church in Trogen. From 1698 to 1701 he was the governor of Ausserrhoder. From 1704 to 1721 he held the office of provincial cover master and from 1721 to 1732 that of provincial governor. From 1717 he and his son Conrad Zellweger exported the canvas to Lyon themselves. They set up a warehouse there and employed their own commissioners . They continued to buy fabrics on commission for other merchants. With investments in the East India Company they suffered great losses in 1719. After handing over the business to his sons Conrad Zellweger and Johannes Zellweger in 1726, Zellweger devoted himself primarily to politics . He was voted out of the state government twice: in 1701 in the wake of the calendar dispute and in 1732 during the land trade . In the latter he was relieved of his office as head of the linden trees by the hard. Zellweger had to pay a heavy fine and was excluded from all offices for life. He was thrifty and of a strict work ethic; his contemporaries accused him of greed .

literature

• Peter Holderegger: Entrepreneurs in Appenzellerland: History of industrial entrepreneurship in Appenzell Ausserrhoden from the beginning to the present. Schläpfer, Herisau 1992, pp. 72, 103.
• Walter Schläpfer: Appenzell history. Volume 2. Edited by the government council of the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden. Herisau / Appenzell 1972, pp. 157-183.
• Matthias Weishaupt: ties of respect and love: eleven portraits of the Zellweger family from the 18th century. Catalog for the exhibition in the ballroom of the Cantonal Library of Appenzell A.Rh., Trogen, January 21 to March 31, 2000. Traber, Wald 2000, pp. 12-14.

Web links

• Thomas Fuchs: Conrad Zellweger. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 5, 2014 , accessed May 29, 2020 .
• Commercial archive Zellweger in the State Archive Appenzell Ausserrhoden .

Individual evidence

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.

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