Johann Gottfried Reyger

Johann Gottfried Reyger (born April 3, 1725 in Danzig ; † May 18, 1793 ibid) was the last mayor of the Free City of Danzig.

Life

Right town hall on the long market

Johann Gottfried Reyger was the son of Friedrich Reyger (born March 13, 1692 in Danzig; † July 12, 1753 ibid), mayor of Danzig. The botanist Gottfried Reyger was a nephew of his father.

He initially attended the Marienschule in Gdansk and then the Academic Gymnasium Gdansk .

In 1747 he began studying law at the University of Leiden , which he finished in 1749 and after which he undertook a two-year journey through Holland , England , France and Germany.

In 1751 he returned to Gdansk and shortly thereafter was appointed head of the St. Barbara Church and the associated hospital in downtown Gdansk. In 1762 he was elected to the college of one hundred representatives of the citizenry and in 1763 he was asked to remain head of the Barbara Church for another year despite the expiry of the usual twelve-year period. In 1764 he received the Vorsteherschaft at the Lady Chapel and managed but this only for a short time because he was already in the 1766 Law Municipal Schoepp chair was chosen.

In 1761 he was elected to the Senate of the city of Danzig, and as such he held several offices, including the office of judge .

In 1780 he was elected mayor of Gdansk and was also president of the deputation for public affairs.

When Prussian troops took over Danzig as part of the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, he was dismissed as mayor at his own request and died eight days later.

Johann Gottfried Reyger was married to Marie Christiane Sörmann for the first time, but she died a year after the marriage. His second marriage was to Dorothea Wilhelmine Kraft; both his second wife and two sons survived him.

See also

• List of Mayors of Gdansk

literature

• Johann Gottfried Reyger in Friedrich Schlichtegroll : Nekrolog on the year 1793, 4th year, 1st volume. Gotha, Perthes 1794. pp. 299 f.