Imperial Cologne Lotto
The Reichsstädtischer Kölner Lotto was a private lottery company licensed and guaranteed by the Free Imperial City of Cologne . For the procedure, see the Austrian number lottery, which is still current today .
history
When the number lottery spread across Europe in the 18th century, the Cologne citizen Hubert Stockhausen also applied to the council for a license in January 1770, for which he had won another five people. The city treasury was guaranteed 5000 guilders a year in profit. On Saturday, April 28, 1770, the first drawing of the Gracious Guaranteed City-Cölln Number Lottery took place in Cologne . Tickets for this were sold by lottery takers throughout the Holy Roman Empire . The lists with the numbers played were sent to Cologne and, on the day of the drawing, spectacularly drawn by an orphan boy under city supervision .
The lottery was initially very successful, as the city controlled the process and guaranteed the prize money up to a total of 50,000 guilders. Stockhausen was soon accused of irregularities, so that he had to retire in 1773. A Koblenz partner and his representative Karl Josef Scholl , also from Koblenz, were involved, who then joined the company with a tenth, just like his father-in-law, the Cologne councilor Adam Josef Schülgen, with other interested parties. Scholl bought land in Hürth with his profits and became the first Maire ( mayor ) of Hürth during the French era .
literature
- Hans Grotjan: The Cologne Lotto , dissertation University of Cologne, 1923