Johann Georg Merz

Johann Georg Merz (born October 8, 1761 in Herisau ; † July 12, 1830 in ibid ; authorized to live there ) was a Swiss textile entrepreneur, mayor and member of the small council from the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden .

Life

Johann Georg Merz was a son of Bartholome Merz, butcher and landlord zum Schäfli , and Anna Katharina Leugenhager. He married Anna Margreth Peter. He entered into a second marriage with Anna Katharina Nänny.

Merz completed a red tanner apprenticeship in Lindau ( Bavaria ). After three years of wandering through Germany and Holland , he and his brother took over his father's business in 1781. After separating from his brother in 1782, Merz ran the Gasthaus zur Krone in Herisau. He attached a wine trade to this.

In 1795 he successfully entered the textile publishing business . In 1798 he was Rittmeister of the Herisau cavalry . From 1798 to 1799 he was an agent of the government instead holder of the canton Säntis . In the years 1799 to 1802 he was the deputy governor of the Herisau district . From 1805 to 1816 he held the office of mayor in Herisau. From 1816 to 1818 he served as the Ausserrhoder state ensign, 1818/1819 as the state cap master and from 1819 to 1820 as the state governor. Merz played a key role in the revision of the land register . Their vehement rejection by the rural community forced him to resign in 1820.

Works

• Johann Georg Merz: I look at my life. 1819. Manuscript in the Appenzell Ausserrhoden State Archives .

literature

• Ernst H. Koller, Jakob Signer: Appenzell coat of arms and gender book. Stämpfli, Bern 1926, p. 211.
• Peter Witschi: Appenzeller all over the world. Schläpfer, Herisau 1994, p. 178.

Web links

• Thomas Fuchs: Johann Georg Merz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 8, 2007 , accessed August 19, 2020 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the function of the state offices (state builder, state ensign, state governor, governor) cf. Otto Tobler: Development and functions of the state offices in Appenzell A. Rh. From the end of the 14th century to the present. Diss. University of Bern 1905. In: Appenzellische Jahrbücher 34 (1906), pp. 1–164, here above all from p. 71. Web access via e-periodica.ch.

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