Jakob Zellweger Weather

Jakob Zellweger Weather (* 22. December 1723 in Lyon , † 16th December 1808 in Trogen ; heimatberechtigt in Trogen) was a Swiss businessman , textile entrepreneur, counselor, longtime member of the Small Council , Landammann and Diet envoy from the canton of Appenzell Outer Rhodes .

Life

Jakob Zellweger-Wetter was a son of Johannes Zellweger . In 1754 he married Anna Maria Wetter, daughter of Johann Laurenz Wetter, a merchant. He managed the branch of his father's trading house in Lyon until 1762. He then ran the business at the headquarters in Trogen. In 1774 he separated from his business partner and brother Johannes Zellweger . He founded the trading company Zellweger older & Compagnie with branches in Lyon and Genoa . In 1762 he was councilor in Trogen. From 1780 to 1781 he served as governor of Ausserrhoder and from 1781 to 1782 as state cap master . From 1783 to 1793 he was provincial governor. From 1794 to 1797 he held the office of Landammann and Envoy to the Diet. He spent the year 1798 in exile in Vorarlberg . In 1799 he was Landammann of the interim government . From 1760 to 1763, Zellweger had the later Trogen parsonage built with magnificent stucco work . In 1764 he founded a poor and orphanage . He also financed the representative furnishing of the church in Trogen, which was newly built from 1779 to 1782. As a representative of European trade capitalism , he and his brother were at the height of the Appenzell textile trading houses .

literature

• Jakob Zellweger-Wetter's estate in the Appenzell Ausserrhoden Cantonal Library
• Eugen Steinmann: The art monuments of the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Volume 2: The district of Mittelland. Basel: Birkhäuser 1980. ISBN 3-7643-1174-6 (= Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz, Volume 97), pp. 89-103.
• Peter Holderegger: Entrepreneurs in Appenzellerland: History of industrial entrepreneurship in Appenzell Ausserrhoden from the beginning to the present. Herisau: Schläpfer 1992.
• Matthias Weishaupt: ties of respect and love: eleven portraits of the Zellweger family from the 18th century. Catalog for the exhibition in the ballroom of the Cantonal Library of Appenzell A.Rh., Trogen, January 21 to March 31, 2000. Wald: Traber 2000, pp. 22-25.

Web links

• Thomas Fuchs: Jakob Zellweger. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 26, 2012 , accessed May 28, 2020 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the function of the state offices (state builder, state ensign, state governor, governor) cf. Otto Tobler: Development and functions of the state offices in Appenzell A. Rh. From the end of the 14th century to the present. Diss. University of Bern 1905. In: Appenzellische Jahrbücher 34 (1906), pp. 1–164, here above all from p. 71. Web access via e-periodica.ch.

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