Johann Baptist Ludwig Gallati

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Johann Baptist Ludwig Gallati (born December 7, 1771 in Sargans ; † September 20, 1844 ibid), von Näfels and Sargans, was a Swiss local and canton politician and historian.

Live and act

Johann Baptist Ludwig Gallati was a son of the mayor Johann Jakob Gallati (1724–1800) and Maria Rosa geb. Kraft (1734-1784). After his school days in the Cistercian monastery Salem , he received a commercial training in Munich .

Gallatis plan to rebuild Sargans in 1812

Gallati held numerous political offices in his homeland at the municipal and cantonal level. He was first president of the municipality Sargans, 1798-1799 district commissioner, 1799-1803 district governor of District Mels (former bailiwick Sargans ), 1803 Member of the Grand Council of the Canton of St. Gallen and 1813-1814 again mayor of Sargans. After his hometown was almost completely destroyed in the " Staedtlibrand " on December 8, 1811 , he planned to rebuild the place on the basis of new fire protection regulations.

At the beginning of the Swiss Restoration in 1814, he headed a movement in the Sarganserland that demanded more popular sovereignty and a more democratic constitution and - because this was not allowed by the canton of St. Gallen, to which it had only belonged since 1803 - the separation from the same and initially sought to join Graubünden , and later to Glarus . At the request of the St. Gallen government, the Diet initially sent intermediaries, but in October 1814 had the area occupied by the military. Despite the intercession of the Swiss military leader General Niklaus Franz von Bachmann , Gallati and his comrades-in-arms were arbitrarily sentenced in 1816 to ruinous fines as rebels. Gallati had to withdraw from politics and devoted himself to historical-genealogical research as well as writing. It was not until the time of regeneration that Gallati belonged again to the St. Gallen Great Council from 1831–1833.

family

Johann Baptist Ludwig Gallati married Maria Katharina Bürgi in 1823, daughter of the Grand Councilor Josef Anton Bürgi. His brother Johann Jacob Cassian Gallati (1769-1853) was mayor, in the Helvetic President of the administrative chamber of the canton of Linth , captain in the 3rd Swiss regiment of the French army and knight of the Legion of Honor .

Despite the Italian-sounding name, the Gallati family is a long-established family in Glarus, which has been based in Sargans since Rudolf Gallati, who came from Näfels, was naturalized in 1589, and whose members held high administrative offices for over three centuries until the branch died out in 1880 the Landvogtei and the municipality held.

The coat of arms of the Gallati family shows: "In gold on a green three-mountain black pair of horns."

estate

The family's archives were split up after Gallati's death in 1845. The files of the former Sarganser Landschreiberei, run by the Gallati, came partly to the St. Gallen State Archives and partly to the private archive in the possession of the Good family in Mels. Together with the Good family archive, the Gallati estate was also located in St. Gallen from 1956 to 1980, after which the Good family again owned it. In 1993 the material was given to the Lucerne State Archives by Franz Anton Good.

literature

  • Jean Geel: Governor Johann Baptist Gallati von Sargans 1771–1844. Zollikofer & Cie., St. Gallen 1920.
  • Franz Anton Good: Chronicle and genealogy of the Gallaty family zu Sargans. 1944. (Separatum from: Sarganserländische Volkszeitung , Bad Ragaz, 63 pages)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. the Sargans community memorial page on the fire and reconstruction.
  2. ^ Holdings in the St. Gallen State Archives.
  3. ^ Cf. Jean Geel: Captain Cassian Gallati von Sargans (1769-1853). Ragaz 1925. 47 pp.
  4. ^ Holdings in the St. Gallen State Archives.
  5. ↑ See Veronika Feller-Vest: Gallati. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  6. ↑ See Samuel Wild: Book of Arms of the Citizens of the Canton of Glarus. 1902; Ida Tschudi-Schümperlin , Jakob Winteler : Book of Arms of the State of Glarus. Geneva 1937, 2 1977, 34.
  7. ↑ See explanation of the holdings in the St. Gallen State Archives and in the Lucerne State Archives ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / query.staatsarchiv.lu.ch
personal data
SURNAME Gallati, Johann Baptist Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gallaty, Johann Baptist Ludwig; Galati, Johann Baptist Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss local and canton politician and genealogist
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Sargans
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1844
Place of death Sargans