Heinrich Escher (politician, 1713)
Heinrich Escher vom Glas (born May 6, 1713 in Zurich ; † September 4, 1777 there ) was a Swiss politician and a military person.
Escher became Rittmeister in 1737 and a member of the Zurich City Court in 1743 , sat on the Grand Council of Zurich from 1746 and was guild master of the Meisen from 1760 to 1777 , and governor from 1761. From 1746 to 1747 he was Vogt in Thurgau , and from 1748 to 1750 Colonel in the Budé Regiment in Holland , from 1752 to 1760 in the Lochmann Regiment in France. Escher was often envoy , for example to Geneva in 1760 . From 1775 to 1777, Escher, as envoy for the suburb, negotiated a new alliance with France together with Zurich mayor Hans Conrad Heidegger . As head of the alms office (which he held from 1760), he had the Zurich orphanage built in 1771 .
literature
- Georg von Wyß: Escher, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 352 f.
Web links
- Martin Lassner: Escher, Heinrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Heinrich Escher in the catalog of the Bern Burger Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Lassner: Escher, Heinrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Escher, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Escher vom Glas, Heinrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss politician and a military person |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1713 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 4, 1777 |
| Place of death | Zurich |