Eucharius Holzach (politician)

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Eucharius Holzach (* before 1480 ; † 1521 in Basel ) was a Swiss merchant and politician .

Life

Holzach, son of the chief guild master Oswald Holzach , was a shopkeeper (merchant) in Basel and belonged to five different guilds. 1507–1516 he was a councilor and from 1517–1521 guild master of the guild of household members. He was also a triple, court and roll call lord. He provided various embassies to the Confederation and to the Upper Rhine for his hometown. In 1515 he took part as a lieutenant in the campaign that culminated in the battle of Marignano . In 1521 he was expelled from the council for accepting French pension payments. He was married three times, first to Bertha Zscheckenbürlin, then to Ursula Kilchmann and finally to Dorothea Jungemann, a daughter of Councilor Hans Jungemann. Around 1500 he had a stately home built for himself on Lindenberg in Kleinbasel, which is now called Hattstätterhof after a later owner.

literature

  • Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland. Volume 4. 1927, p. 279.
  • Hans Füglister : craft regiment . Studies and materials on the social and political structure of the city of Basel in the first half of the 16th century. Basel, Frankfurt am Main 1981.
  • Gustaf Adolf Wanner : The Holzach. Story of an old Swiss family. Basel, Frankfurt am Main 1982.
  • Markus Lutz : Baslerisches Bürgerbuch. P. 162 ( Google books )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Lutz: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Basel-Stadt, Vol. 6, Bern 2004, p. 152.
personal data
SURNAME Holzach, Eucharius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH before 1480
DATE OF DEATH 1521
Place of death Basel