Gottlieb Hünerwadel

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Gottlieb Hünerwadel (born June 7, 1744 in Lenzburg ; † January 6, 1820 there ; entitled to live in Lenzburg) was a Swiss industrialist , politician and officer . From 1803 to 1815 he was Councilor of the Canton of Aargau .

biography

The son of the Lenzburg councilor Johann Hünerwadel took over the red dye works he founded and the bleaching plant founded by his grandfather. He also traded in cotton , which made him one of the wealthiest people in the Bernese Aargau . His second wife was Anna Maria Bertschinger (1712–1781) and Elisabeth Waser (1715–1780) from Zurich. He had an older sister (1741–1802) and six half-siblings from his father's first marriage to Barbara Lüscher. Two biological siblings and five half-siblings did not survive childhood. In 1765 he married the then 24-year-old Elisabeth Hunziker, who died two years later. In the following year he married again, this time the 18-year-old Elisabeth Saxer (1750-1828). Together they had eight children, two of whom died in childhood. - His second oldest son was Hieronymus Hünerwadel .

After he had been a member of the Small Council of the City of Lenzburg from 1774, he was elected regimental major in 1782 by the City Council of Bern as the first Aargau subject ever . Four years later he was appointed department major , in 1795 that of lieutenant colonel . With the collapse of the old rule of law, Hünerwadel became the first president of the municipality of Lenzburg in 1798 . In 1803 he was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau, which in turn elected him to the cantonal government in the same year. He was responsible for church and education and also presided over the Commerce Council. In 1815 he resigned as a councilor and in 1818 as a grand councilor.

Hünerwadel was known as a patron of the arts. On his behalf, Carl Ahasver von Sinner built a stately home in the early classicist style in 1784/85, which the Aargau Heritage Department counts as one of the most beautiful town houses of the 18th century. Today it is called the Müllerhaus and is the seat of a cultural institution.

literature

  • Biographical Lexicon of the Canton of Aargau 1803–1957 . In: Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau (Ed.): Argovia . tape 68/69 . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1958, p. 372-373 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Hünerwadel in Bernese families .
  2. ↑ Gottlieb Hünerwadel (I1461) , relatedfamilies.com, August 28, 2009
  3. ↑ Müllerhaus in Lenzburg
personal data
SURNAME Hünerwadel, Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician, industrialist and officer
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1744
PLACE OF BIRTH Lenzburg
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1820
Place of death Lenzburg