Johann Anton Renner

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Johann Anton Renner (born October 18, 1743 in Nidau , canton Bern , † March 29, 1800 ) was the owner of the Habsburg baths ( Bad Schinznach ) and later a member of the administrative chamber of the newly founded canton of Aargau .

Life

Owner of the Habsburg bath

Renner's hometown Nidau ​​( Johann Ludwig Aberli , 1767)

Renner came from the second marriage of the watchmaker and Venner von Nidau ​​Johann Anton Renner with Johanna Dupan, widowed Dachselhofer. He was a half-brother of General Sigmund Freiherr von Renner , who, as an adjutant to Field Marshal Lacy, belonged to Emperor Joseph II's environment . Renner studied at the Bern Academy . In 1770 he married Henriette von Schwachheim (1746 - 1802 at the latest), a daughter of Franz Daniel von Schwachheim . Of the couple's children, one daughter and three sons reached adulthood. In 1773 Renner received the Habsburg bath (Bad Schinznach) from his father-in-law , which, unlike Schwachheim, he managed himself. He was a host until 1779, later a member of the Helvetic Society . In 1777 they planned the construction of their own meeting building, for which the Schaffhausen sculptor Alexander Trippel designed an allegory of Joseph II, but they soon moved their meeting place to Olten .

Relationship with future revolutionaries

Renner's sister Marianne (1747–1823) married the widowed silk ribbon manufacturer Johann Rudolf Meyer (1739–1813) in Aarau in 1783 . In 1792 he was the first subject to preside over the Helvetic Society . Renner's eldest surviving child Henriette (1774 – approx. 1829) married the Indian manufacturer Joseph Vaucher (1763–1825) in Niederlenz in 1793 . In 1796 Renner sold the Habsburg bath to Gottlieb Rohr (1745–1807) from Lenzburg . Henriette later described as an unforgivable mistake that he had let this “gold mine” be stolen from him by a political opponent. After the sale, he moved to the Meyers in Aarau.

Administrator of the Canton of Aargau

When the Helvetic Revolution took place in 1798 , Renner, like those around him, joined the radical democratic party of the Patriots . For a short time he was deputy governor of the newly created canton of Aargau and district governor of Aarau. Afterwards he was one of the five administrators who formed the cantonal administrative chamber. The Aargauer elected his brother-in-law Meyer and his son-in-law Vaucher as senators of the Helvetic Republic . In 1800 Renner, like Vaucher before, became insolvent. On March 7th, he took part in a meeting of the Administrative Chamber for the last time. The place and circumstances of his death are unclear, he probably committed suicide. In the course of the disempowerment of the patriots by the Republicans standing further to the right, Meyer lost his seat in the Senate shortly afterwards.

progeny

Renner's eldest son Ferdinand (1775-1853) became a businessman . According to his uncle Sigmund, he allowed himself into daring speculations in France . The general helped his brothers Samuel Abraham (1776–1850) and Albert (* 1779?) To become captains in the k. k. Army . In 1800 he bequeathed the majority of his fortune to Samuel Abraham. In 1801 Henriette Vaucher and her children sought refuge with relatives in Erding ( Bavaria ). Ferdinand tried in vain from 1801 to 1803 to establish himself in Niederlenz, which cost his uncle Meyer a lot of money. The war-disabled Samuel Abraham retired as a major in 1802 and married his cousin Friederike Mörike. In 1808 he acquired the Hohebuch estate near Waldenburg ( Württemberg ), and in 1817 the Polling estate ( Bavaria ) from his cousin Hieronymus Meyer . He made the latter into an agricultural research institute. He took in his penniless siblings Henriette and Ferdinand there. Henriette is said to have died in Dresden . The well-traveled Ferdinand finally became a teacher of French, Italian, English and Spanish. He practiced this profession one after the other in Munich , Regensburg , Augsburg , Würzburg , Fürth and Ingolstadt . Albert - a debt maker according to General Renner - is said to have died in Venice in the 1840s . Samuel Abraham had to leave Polling to a believer in 1843. He and his wife spent their twilight years at the side of their relative, the poet Eduard Mörike , in Mergentheim .

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References and comments

  1. ^ First member of the twelve-person council, deputy to the governor.
  2. ^ Henriette Vaucher-Renner to her cousin Friedrich Meyer, Polling , January 11, 1824 (Aarau City Archives, Meyer estate).
  3. ↑ He probably lived in his brother-in-law's silk ribbon factory (today the Golatti nursing home).
personal data
SURNAME Renner, Johann Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Aargau politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1743
PLACE OF BIRTH Nidau , Canton of Bern
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1800