Hans Joachim Steinmann (politician, 1769)

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Hans Joachim Steinmann (born March 11, 1769 in St. Gallen ; † June 5, 1836 there ) was a Swiss entrepreneur and politician.

Life

Hans Joachim Steinmann was the son of Kaspar Steinmann (* unknown; † 1823), a cotton cloth manufacturer and his wife Clara Ehrenzeller. He was the second child and the eldest son of his parents' eight children. His grandfather Hans Joachim Steinmann was the mayor of St. Gallen. His brother was Daniel Steinmann (1779-1839), businessman and Councilor .

Steinmann joined his father's company and later took over its management, thereby making a small fortune. In 1803 the parish council of St. Gallen appointed him a member of the citizens' poor commission. In 1808 he took over the position of his deceased grandfather as administrator of the Brestenamt (administration of the civil hospital in St. Gallen). In 1809 he was appointed to the local council by the St. Gallen Citizens' Assembly and stayed there until 1834.

In 1810 he filled the newly created post as head of the new orphanage and in 1812 joined the parish church leadership. In 1813 he became inspector of the Vadium library and in the same year tax collector for the St. Gallen district.

In 1814 he became a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of St. Gallen. After the new constitution was introduced in the canton of St. Gallen in 1816, Hans Joachim Steinmann was elected to the cantonal council. At the same time, the previous municipal council became a city council whose president he was elected on May 17, 1816. In this office he was confirmed alternately with a colleague until 1831, ie until the new constitutional reform . In 1830 he was elected to the Constitutional Council of the Canton of St. Gallen.

In 1816 he took over the presidency of the library. In 1817 he was elected to the school council, whose presidium was transferred to him in 1828. In 1829 he joined the Protestant Central and Church Council of the Canton of St. Gallen. He took over the presidium of the bourgeois retirement fund and the office of treasurer of the Bible Society , as well as other social offices.

He was married to Elisabeth, daughter of Sebastian Wild; they had no children.

Works

  • Short report about the memorable conflagration that occurred in this city: in the night of January 26th to 17th and the four following days . St. Gallen: Brentano, 1830.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen, Volume 15, 1837, Part 1, pp. 20–23 . BF Voigt., 1839 ( google.de [accessed on May 7, 2018]).
  2. ^ Markus Kaiser: Hans Joachim Steinmann. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 13, 2012 , accessed May 8, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Brestenamt. In: German legal dictionary (DRW). University of Heidelberg, accessed on May 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Steinmann, Hans Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steinmann, Hanns Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Mayor
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1836
Place of death St. Gallen