Hans Balthasar Burckhardt

Hans Balthasar Burckhardt (* 1676 ; † 1740 ; other death date in 1738 in Basel ) was a Swiss businessman and politician.

Life

Hans Balthasar Burckhardt was the son of the Basel mayor Johann Balthasar Burckhardt and his wife Salome (1654–1721), daughter of Johann Gottfried, pharmacist. In 1698 he founded a company as a ribbon manufacturer under his name, after shortly before the multi-aisle ribbon looms (mills, artificial chairs, ribbon mills ), based on the loom smuggled in from Holland by Emanuel Hoffmann-Müller , had been invented.

Due to his humanistic studies, he not only promoted his business, but also devoted himself to the public affairs of Basel and worked in the council and as a member of the Confederation in negotiations on general Swiss affairs; he became even more active after he had handed over his business to his son of the same name, Hans Balthasar Burckhardt (* 1703 † 1773), who increased the size of the company; his son, Peter Burckhardt, in turn, went the same way that his grandfather had taken and kept the company going, but studied and was elected the last mayor of old Basel in 1790; In 1812 he became Landammann of Switzerland.

Hans Balthasar Burckhardt had been married to Susanna (1679–1710), daughter of councilor Peter Raillard (1647–1714), since 1699; together they had ten children, eight of whom died in childhood. The company, founded by Hans Balthasar Burckhardt in 1698, remained in the family until 1835, was then continued as Dietschy & Co. by the shareholder Johann Jakob Dietschy until it went bankrupt as Dietschy, Heusler & Co. in 1930.

literature

Hermann Wartmann: Burckhardt, Hans Balthasar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 571.

Individual evidence

↑ Gabrielle Schmidt-Ott: Dietschy. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 23, 2004 , accessed April 7, 2019 .
^ Ingo Köhler, Roman Rossfeld: bankrupts and bankrupts: history of economic failure from the 18th to the 20th century . Campus Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39633-0 , pp. 307 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Burckhardt, Hans Balthasar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Burckhardt, Johann Balthasar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss entrepreneurs and politicians
DATE OF BIRTH	1676
DATE OF DEATH	1740
Place of death	Basel

[1] Gabrielle Schmidt-Ott: Dietschy. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 23, 2004 , accessed April 7, 2019 .

[2] Ingo Köhler, Roman Rossfeld: bankrupts and bankrupts: history of economic failure from the 18th to the 20th century . Campus Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39633-0 , pp. 307 ( limited preview in Google Book search).