Society to merchants

Society to merchants
purpose	Civil corporation
Chair:	Reto Adamina (chairman)
Establishment date:	around 1300
Number of members:	1185
Seat :	Guild House for Merchants Kramgasse 29 3011 Bern Switzerland
Website:	www.kaufleuten-bern.ch

House of the Society for Merchants in Bern.

The Gesellschaft zu Kaufleuten is one of the 13 companies and guilds in the city of Bern and a public corporation guaranteed by the constitution of the Canton of Bern . It is a civil corporation within the meaning of Bernese municipal legislation and is subject to the supervision of the cantonal authorities. As a personal corporation, it does not have its own territory and is taxable. It includes all citizens of Bern who have the company law to become merchants. At present the Society for Merchants has about 1300 members.

The Gesellschaft zu Kaufleuten appears in the sources for the first time at the end of the 14th century as a shopkeeper society. Since 1431 at the latest, the company had the privilege of being the market and trade police in the German-speaking areas of the city ​​and republic of Bern . The company controlled measures and weights and exercised the actual market police through supervisors (Henseler). The privilege fell in 1798 with the French occupation of Bern.

people

Non-exhaustive list of members of the society on merchants, about which a German Wikipedia article exists.

• Johann Rudolf Tschiffeli , agronomist
• John Webber , English painter and draftsman
• Henry Webber , sculptor
• Samuel Anton Wilhelmi , professor of theology
• Niklaus Bernhard Morell (1754–1835), artillery captain, salt bookkeeper
• Karl Friedrich Morell (1759–1816), botanist, chemist and pharmacist
• Bernhard Rudolf Morell (1785–1859), architect
• Guillaume Henri Dufour (1787–1875), engineer, federal general
• Karl von Rodt , theologian
• Eduard von Rodt , architect and historian
• Martin Lauterburg , artist
• Erich Gruner , political scientist
• Walter Ludwig Wilhelm Lauterburg , professor
• Paul Gruner , physicist
• Bernhard Emanuel von Rodt , historian
• Christine Lauterburg , singer
• Lorenz Hess , National Councilor

literature

• Rudolf Ischer: The Society House for the Merchants in Bern. In: New Berner Taschenbuch on the year 1918, pp. 1–100. doi : 10.5169 / seals-129139
• Bernhard Emanuel von Rodt, Ludwig Lauterburg: The company of merchants in Bern. A contribution to the history of the town of Bern's society and guild system , in: Berner Taschenbuch on the year 1862, pp. 1–171. doi : 10.5169 / seals-120727

See also

• List of cultural assets in Bern in District I, Inner City - Eastern Part

Web links

Commons : Society for Merchants  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Society of Merchants
• Gesellschaft zu Kaufleuten on the website of the Burgergemeinde Bern
• Archive Gesellschaft zu Kaufleuten in the catalog of the Bern Burger Library

Single references

1. ^ State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern: Constitution of the Canton of Bern. SR 131.212. In: Systematic Legal Collection SR . Voters of the Canton of Bern, June 6, 1993, accessed on June 14, 2018 (Article 107 in Section 7 municipalities; as of March 11, 2015). 
2. ^ State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern: Municipal Law of the Canton of Bern. BSG 170.11. In: Systematic legal collection of the Canton of Bern BSG. Grand Council of the Canton of Bern , March 16, 1998, accessed on June 14, 2018 (Article 117 in Section 2.2 Civic Communities and Civil Corporations; Status on January 1, 2014). 
3. ↑ Directory of all citizens of the city of Bern on January 1, 1861 , Bern 1861, p. 24.

Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '52.2 "  N , 7 ° 27' 2.7"  E ; CH1903:  600922  /  one hundred and ninety-nine thousand six hundred and thirty-nine