Joachim Friedrich Kornmesser

Joachim Friedrich Kornmesser (born January 10, 1641 in Cölln ; † April 10, 1715 in Berlin ) was a German politician and mayor of Berlin from 1709 to 1715.

Life

Kornmesser was born as the son of Jacob Kornmesser and Franziska Kormesser in Cölln .

First, Kornmesser apparently completed medical training. From 1668 he was the Elector of Brandenburg court and travel surgeon. Several trips took him to the Netherlands and Guinea.

He was from 1672 as a valet and from 1676 to 1709 secret valet at the court of the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm and Friedrich III./I. active. From 1688 he was a councilor and mayor of Cölln. From 1698 he was court advisor and conductor of the Brandenburg-African Compagnie . He also worked as an ordinator of the Mittel-, Uckermärkische and Ruppiner city treasury.

With the merger of the previously independent cities of Berlin, Cölln, Friedrichswerder and Dorotheenstadt to form the city of Berlin in 1709, the municipal administration of the residence was reorganized. Berlin now received four mayors in office at the same time, one of whom was Kornmesser. In this office he also witnessed the accession to the throne of the soldier king Friedrich Wilhelm I in 1713. Two years later he died in Berlin at the age of 74. He was buried in the Petrikirche .

Kornmesser was married twice. The first wife died in the year of the wedding. In his second marriage, he was married from 1688 to Maria de Pedy, a daughter of the banker and councilor of Brandenburg, Jean de Pedy, who came from Rotterdam. The couple lived in their own house on Breite Straße .

literature

Johann Christian Gädicke, Lexicon of Berlin , p.330 Kornmessersches Orphanage

Web links

luise-berlin.de

Individual evidence

↑ see below a. P. 522f Short biography in Peter Bahl : The Court of the Great Elector: Studies on the Higher Officials of Brandenburg-Prussia , 2001.

personal data
SURNAME	Kornmesser, Joachim Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician and mayor of Berlin (1709–1715)
DATE OF BIRTH	January 10, 1641
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	April 10, 1715
Place of death	Berlin

[1] see below a. P. 522f Short biography in Peter Bahl : The Court of the Great Elector: Studies on the Higher Officials of Brandenburg-Prussia , 2001.