Franz Kniffler

Franz Tillmann Kniffler (* around 1775 ) was mayor of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr from January to March 1822 .

With Franz Kniffler, a police commissioner (commissaire de police) from Krefeld , after Lambert Maubach a non- resident was again appointed mayor of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr. Two months after taking office, he left Mülheim again to take up a position as senior tax inspector in Elberfeld . He then lived in Bonn and Wetzlar , finally Düsseldorf , where he lived in a house at Flinger Steinweg 212 ( Schadowstraße 75) from 1829 with his Krefeld-born wife Maria, née Stein, and his children . The Prussian king awarded Kniffler for his various services with theOrder of the Red Eagle fourth class. Kniffler's son was the merchant Louis Kniffler , who founded the first German company in Japan in 1859 on the island of Dejima off Nagasaki .

literature

Ilse Barleben : Mülheim ad Ruhr. Contributions to its history from the city elevation to the founding years . Mülheim an der Ruhr 1959, pp. 50–51.

Web links

Mülheim's mayor from 1808 until today

Individual evidence

↑ Edmund Spohr : Louis Kniffler, the pioneer of the Japanese-German trade . In: Jan Wellem . Alde Düsseldorfer Bürgergesellschaft von 1920 eV, 84th volume, issue 2 (May to July 2009), p. 2 ( PDF )

personal data
SURNAME	Kniffler, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kniffler, Franz Tillmann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Mayor
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1775
DATE OF DEATH	after 1822

[1] Edmund Spohr : Louis Kniffler, the pioneer of the Japanese-German trade . In: Jan Wellem . Alde Düsseldorfer Bürgergesellschaft von 1920 eV, 84th volume, issue 2 (May to July 2009), p. 2 ( PDF )