Hieronymus Hünerwadel

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Memorial stone on the Schlossberg

Hieronymus Hünerwadel (also Hieronimus , born October 4, 1772 in Lenzburg ; † October 27, 1824 there ) was a merchant and mayor at the time of the Helvetic Republic .

From 1803 until his death he was mayor (city president) in his hometown Lenzburg. In 1821 he served as an honorary envoy for the Zurich Diet . He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce of the Canton of Aargau .

Life

Hünerwadel came from a middle-class family in Lenzburg. His father Gottlieb Hünerwadel was an officer, politician and industrialist who as Councilor came in highest cantonal honors. Hieronymus married Katharina Tobler (1777–1850) on October 21, 1797, with whom he had nine children; of these, seven reached adulthood.

Jerome only survived his father by four years, but was able to pursue a similar career. He, too, initially served as an auxiliary major - according to other sources, a captain - in the Unteraargau Dragoon Regiment in 1798, but then also turned to politics. From 1809 he got involved in school politics in his hometown. Together with the music teacher Michael Traugott Pfeiffer , who was about the same age and whom he probably met in 1803 through Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi , he initiated a higher education institution for teacher training from 1809.

In 1805 Heinrich Keller created a bust of Hünerwadel in Lenzburg. The city of Lenzburg erected a memorial stone below the castle in his honor. Then it says

«The man and citizen who are equally distinguished by the conciliatory mildness of character and the rigor in the exercise of his duties. Consecrate this mark of profound loss. Friendship and citizenship. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rebekka Horlacher, Daniel Tröhler: Letters to Pestalozzi. 1805 to 1809 , Volume 2, Walter de Gruyter 2010, ISBN 978-311022834-2 , page 362, footnote 91
  2. ↑ Hieronimus Hünerwadel on the Bernese families
  3. ↑ Inventories of the Aargau Archives Part I Repertory of the Aargau State Archives . HR Sauerländer & Co., Aarau 1935, page 159
  4. ^ Karl Viktor von Bonstetten : Letter correspondence of Karl Viktor von Bonstetten and his circle . Wallstein Verlag 2002, ISBN 978-389244583-8 , page 903
personal data
SURNAME Hünerwadel, Hieronymus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hieronimus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss businessman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Lenzburg
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1824
Place of death Lenzburg