Johann Christoph Weigel (Councilor)

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Johann Christoph Weigel (* 1704 in Lübeck ; † December 3, 1777 ibid) was a German merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Weigel came from "modest circumstances". After a commercial apprenticeship in Lübeck, he traveled to Copenhagen and found a job as an accountant at the Danish consul in Bordeaux , which he did not take on. Instead, he traveled to Amsterdam via Paris , where he found a job in a trading house in Genoa , where he stayed until 1740. The return journey took him via Venice , Munich and Nuremberg . In his hometown, he went into business for himself and married a stepdaughter of his former teacher. He joined the Lübeck Schonenfahrers and was elected councilor of Lübeck in 1766 as their senior man .

In 1774, Weigel was responsible for the design of the doll's bridge, newly built by Johann Adam Soherr, with eight statues - four male and four female - and four vases. At his suggestion, the sculptor Dietrich Jürgen Boy was commissioned to make the figures and vases in sandstone.

Weigel's house in Lübeck's Köingstrasse

Weigel lived in the house at Königstrasse 5 in Lübeck from 1748 , which still has ceiling paintings that were created during his time as the house owner. Weigel commissioned the Danish architect Christian Frederik Hansen with the fundamental redesign of his house. Today the house serves as the society house of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in Lübeck. His daughter married the future mayor of Lübeck, Christian von Brömbsen , one of the last members of the patrician circle society in Lübeck.

literature

  • Johann Georg Gesner : Sr. Hochedelgebohrnen dem ... Mr. Joachim Tanck, ... and Mr. Johann Christoph Weigel, ... when they were elected on July 23, 1766 as members of a ... council of the ... City of Lübeck gives his obedient congratulations on their solemn introduction Johann Georg Gesner, ... , Green , Lübeck 1766
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 911

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fehling, Council Line
  2. ↑ Illustration in the database of wall and ceiling paintings in Lübeck houses 1300 to 1800
personal data
SURNAME Weigel, Johann Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 1704
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1777
Place of death Lübeck