Society of shoemakers

Society of shoemakers
purpose	Civil corporation
Chair:	Michel Voutat (Chairman)
Establishment date:	before 1373
Number of members:	628
Seat :	Guild House for Shoemakers ; Amthausgasse 8 ; 3011 Bern Switzerland;
Website:	schuhmachern.ch

The Shoemaker Society is one of the 13 societies 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 shoemakers. The Shoemakers Society currently has around 600 members.

The Shoemaker Society appears in the sources for the first time with the Bern Crafts Code of 1373.

people

Non-exhaustive list of members of the Shoemaker Society, about which a German Wikipedia article exists.

Johann Rudolf Gruner (1680–1761), dean in Burgdorf , pastor, collector, chronicler
Gottlieb Sigmund Gruner (1717–1778), natural scientist, archivist for the Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg
Johann Samuel Gruner (1766–1824), mining engineer and geologist
Sigmund Freudenberger , painter
Rudolf Emanuel Stierlin (1779–1866), theologian and local history researcher.
Samuel Brunner (1790–1844), physician and naturalist
Carl Emanuel Brunner (1796–1867), chemistry professor
Karl Brunner-von Wattenwyl (1823–1914), naturalist
Edouard Brunner (1932-2007), diplomat
Jean Ziegler (* 1934), sociologist

literature

Edgar Hans Brunner: Book of arms of the housemates of an honoring society of shoemakers , Bern 1991.
Ernst Trechsel: The Society for the Shoemakers in Bern , Diss. University of Bern 1934.
Ernst Trechsel: The Society for Shoemakers , in: Berner Taschenbuch on the year 1878, pp. 53–123. doi : 10.5169 / seals-124247

Web links

Official website of the Shoemakers Society
Society for Shoemakers on the website of the Civic Community of Bern
Archive of the Society for Shoemakers in the catalog of the Bern Burger Library

Single references

↑ Postal address: Andreas Jenzer, Stubenschreiber, Kappelenacker 20, 3234 Vinelz.
^ 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).
^ 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).

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[1] Postal address: Andreas Jenzer, Stubenschreiber, Kappelenacker 20, 3234 Vinelz.

[2] 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).

[3] 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).