Johann Georg Spitzer

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Johann Georg Spitzer (before 1633 - after 1681) was a German patrician and from 1655 to 1682 mayor of the imperial city of Heilbronn .

In 1633 he was a member of the inner, small patrician council of Heilbronn ( "von den burgern" ), in 1636 he was tax master, in 1644 mayor and from 1655 to 1682 mayor. From 1650 he was also Vogt von Flein .

He married Anna Maria Orth, widow of the mayor Philipp Orth the Elder. J. and granddaughter of the former mayor Wendel Ans . He owned the Orthsche Seegut in the east of the city of Heilbronn, which he sold to the Trapp family in 1653, after whom it is still called Trappensee today .

The Spitzer coat of arms, both as a coat of arms and as a crest, depicts an unclothed woman with loose hair. The woman holds a hexagram in her right hand and is shown against a background that is half sky blue and the other half gold.

literature

  • Moriz von Rauch: The Heilbronn merchant and councilor family Orth . In: Historischer Verein Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1925, here p. 74.
  • Bernd Klagholz: "Heilbronn and its mayors from the 16th to the 19th century" . (Approval work), Tübingen 1980, page 59
personal data
SURNAME Spitzer, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German patrician and mayor of the imperial city of Heilbronn (1655–1682)
DATE OF BIRTH before 1633
DATE OF DEATH after 1681