Johann Caspar Escher

Johann Caspar Escher (born February 15, 1678 in Zurich ; † December 23, 1762 there ) was a Swiss politician .

Life

Escher was born as the son of the Zurich politician and mayor Hans Jakob Escher and Dorothea Hess. He grew up in Zurich and was trained first by himself and then by a private tutor before going to a Latin school. He spent a year abroad in Nuremberg in 1695 before traveling to Utrecht via Vienna , Berlin and Hamburg , where he completed his law degree in 1697 . Not as it would have been customary for a member of the upper class, he did not enter the civil service after his return, but took over the family business, the cotton cloth company Johann Caspar Escher & Sohn . In 1712 he took part as a major in the Second Villmerger War. During this time he met Hans Heinrich Bodmer .

Escher's political career began in 1701: He represented the guild of carpenters in the Grand Council. From 1717 to 1722 he was Governor of Kyburg . Just one year after being elected guild master in 1724, he was a member of the Privy Council. In 1726 Escher became governor , in 1727 president of the marriage court and in 1729 president of the alms maintenance . In 1740 he became mayor of Zurich . He held the office until his death in 1762.

Johann Caspar Escher vom Glas was in the Zurich civil service from 1707. Until 1740 he was often on the road as an envoy, for example in 1729/1730 during the mediation in the dispute between the Three Leagues in Chur and in 1732 during the failed mediation between the abbot of St. Gallen and Appenzell.

In 1698 he married Susanna Werdmüller, the daughter of the governor Johann Ludwig Werdmüller . His descendants included David von Wyss the Elder and David von Wyss , who both became mayors of Zurich.

literature

Martin Lassner: Escher, Hans Caspar (from the glass). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 3, 2004 , accessed September 4, 2018 .
Johann Caspar Escher in the life story of Johann Kaspar Escher, Mayor of the Republic of Zurich . Zurich 1790.

Individual evidence

^ Max Wehrli: Gotthard Heidegger . In: The spiritual Zurich in the 18th century . Birkhäuser Basel, Basel 1989, ISBN 3-0348-6672-0 , p. 35-43 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-0348-6671-2_3 .

personal data
SURNAME	Escher, Johann Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH	February 15, 1678
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zurich
DATE OF DEATH	December 23, 1762
Place of death	Zurich

[1] Max Wehrli: Gotthard Heidegger . In: The spiritual Zurich in the 18th century . Birkhäuser Basel, Basel 1989, ISBN 3-0348-6672-0 , p. 35-43 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-0348-6671-2_3 .