Daniel Högger

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Daniel Högger (born January 30, 1706 in St. Gallen ; † June 21, 1784 ibid) was Mayor of the city ​​of St. Gallen in Switzerland .

Life

Daniel Högger was born as the son of Herman Högger, who was represented in the tailors' guild.

He went to the military and rose to lieutenant captain . After he left the military, he became a judge in 1748 and was an iron merchant in the blacksmith's guild, where he became a guild master in 1753. Before he became councilor in 1754 , he had previously been elected salt director (head of the Salt Office ) and represented the highest city offices every three years from 1754 to 1783, former mayor , imperial bailiff and mayor (from 1761 alternating with Caspar Bernet and Hans Joachim Steinmann ; from 1765 alternating with Heinrich Schlumpf (1702–1783) and Hans Joachim Steinmann).

He was also repeatedly entrusted with diplomatic missions and in 1777 he defended the interests of Saint Gallic merchants in France in Solothurn . On May 28, 1777, the relations between France and Switzerland, which had been preferred since 1516, were signed in an alliance treaty by Louis XVI. approved. This alliance treated the Thirteen Ancient Locations of the Confederation as sovereign republics; before that, France had had the right to meddle in internal disputes since 1715. According to the new contract, the contracting parties only promised to defend each other.

Daniel Högger was friends with Laurenz Zellweger .

Daniel Högger married Martha in 1734, a daughter of Dominik Schirmer. In his second marriage since 1747 he was with Elsbetha, daughter of Paul Schlumpf, councilor and member of the Gesellschaft zum Notenstein , and in his third marriage since 1762 with the widow of David Zollikofer (1687–1760), Marie Felicitas (born December 3, 1712; † November 23, 1780), daughter of Niklaus Zollikofer, also a member of the Notenstein Society, married.

literature

  • Daniel Högger in Verena Sigrist: The school donor book of St. Gallen. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Heraldry Archives. Volume 87, Part 4, 1973 (PDF; 14.98 MB).
  • Daniel Högger in: 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.

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personal data
SURNAME Högger, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Mayor
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1706
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1784
Place of death St. Gallen