Jacob Pistorius

Jakob Pistorius (* before 1801, † after 1813) was a German timber merchant and mayor of the city of Worms from 1804 to 1813 .

Act

The work of Pistorius is only known in fragments, as the files of the Worms municipality have only been partially evaluated so far. He belonged to the municipality from 1801 even before his tenure as mayor. In 1804 he was appointed mayor after his predecessor Georg Strauss had committed suicide. Pistorius was the first Reformed to head the city; since the Reformation the city had been run by Lutherans .

1804 Pistorius received Joséphine de Beauharnais on October 2nd and then on October 3rd her husband Napoleon Bonaparte , then First Consul of the French Republic, on their journey through the departments annexed in 1801/02 on the Left Bank of the Rhine in Worms.

In a letter he wrote in 1805, Pistorius reported on the economic situation in Worms to the administration of the Speyer arrondissement : "Foreign [trade] has been completely destroyed by the Douane laws". He stated in his letter: "Except for some tobacco, oil, vinegar and brandy, nothing is manufactured in large quantities here, and these fabrics are also on the decline for the above reasons".

literature

• Fritz Reuter: Worms between imperial city and industrial city 1800–1882 . Stadtarchiv , Worms 1993, p. 10 .
• Gerold Bönnen: History of the city of Worms . 2nd Edition. Theiss , Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-3158-8 , pp. 387 ff .

Individual evidence

1. ^ The (upper) mayor of Worms> Stadt Worms. In: worms.de. Retrieved February 13, 2016 .