Daniel Steinmann

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Daniel Steinmann (born June 30, 1779 in St. Gallen ; † April 10, 1839 there ) was a Swiss businessman and politician.

Life

Daniel Steinmann was born as the son of Caspar Steinmann (* 1740, † 1823), cotton cloth manufacturer and his wife Clara, born. Ehrenzeller, born. He had seven other siblings, including his older brother Hans Joachim Steinmann , mayor of St. Gallen. His grandfather Hans Joachim Steinmann was mayor of St. Gallen from 1760 to 1792.

He attended the public schools in St. Gallen and received additional private lessons. Influenced by his father, he learned the trade of a businessman; To this end, he attended school in Neuchâtel to learn French from 1794 , and received his four-year commercial training in a trading house in Basel. When he returned to St. Gallen, he entered his father's business and gave it a different design and greater expansion. He made trips to Italy and Germany, where he continued his education in both commercial and general education.

Since 1810, he has held various positions and officials in military and civil authorities, among other things, he was a lieutenant colonel and also worked in the function of district judge. From 1819 until his death he was a Cantonal Councilor in St. Gallen and from 1823 to 1833 director of the postal system, which was commissioned by the Canton of St. Gallen (the oldest chamber of commerce in Switzerland, from which the Notenstein Society emerged ) was managed.

It was not until 1826, he devoted himself to these only work exclusively, he took on several occasions as an envoy to the federal Tagsatzungen part, had negotiated as postmaster with a deputation in Paris a post treaty with France and in 1832 as a Government member of the Small Council of the Canton of St Gallen and was responsible for finance in this function. From 1831 to 1832 he was the citizens 'council of the local citizens' community of St. Gallen

In 1808 Daniel Steinmann married Ursula, daughter of Paul Less, businessman and member of the St. Gallen municipal council. The names of her children are known:

  • Margarethe Babette Steinmann (* 1809; † 1864), teacher and founder of the St. Gallen Deaf and Mute Care, whose institution for the deaf and dumb was opened in 1859.

Memberships

Daniel Steinmann was a member of the St. Gallisch-Appenzell non-profit society, which had the purpose of «stimulating and promoting society on the basis of non-profitability, which serves the intellectual and material welfare of the people», in particular «educational, industrial and To promote the poor, both in the fatherland and especially in the two cantons of St.Gallen and Appenzell »; the current non-profit society of the canton St.Gallen (GGK) emerged from it.

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  1. ↑ Experiences in the field of politics: as a contribution to domestic history . Hurter, 1844, p. 25 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Steinmann, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss businessman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1839
Place of death St. Gallen