Johann Jakob Kees
Johann Jakob Kees (also cheese , Käß or Keese ) (born May 10, 1645 in Lindau in Lake Constance; † September 20, 1705 in Leipzig ), also called the elder to distinguish it from his son of the same name , was a Leipzig merchant and chief postmaster of the Electoral Saxony .
Life
Johann Jakob Kees was the son of the Lindau merchant Hans Konrad Käß (* 1588) and his wife Barbara, née Schnell (* 1616). Johann Jakob Kees came to Leipzig around 1662 and entered the trading business of his paternal uncle, Andreas Egger, who was also from Lindau. On an educational trip to Switzerland and to Italy he learned the local better postal and transport know.
In 1675 he married Elisabeth, née Weisse (1658–1684) in Leipzig, with whom he had two sons and three daughters. In 1686 he married Johanna Maria, née Rappold (1668–1723), in his second marriage.
After his uncle's death in 1684, Kees continued the trading company for his widow and son Gottfried Egger, and in 1687 he was the sole owner. He organized the Leipzig merchants in the trade college , from which the Chamber of Commerce later emerged, tried to improve the postal system, which also included passenger transport, and was repeatedly active as an advisor on trade, coin and postal matters. In 1689 he was appointed to the council of commerce , he was also part of the Leipzig councilor and later also the city builder.
From 1679 Gottfried Egger was the Saxon chief postmaster with the official seat in Leipzig . Ludwig Daser held this position from 1684 on before it went to Johann Jakob Kees in 1691. A year later he initiated a conference in Dresden with representatives of the Reichspost and the Austrian State Post. In 1693 under Kees Leipzig became the central postal authority for Saxony. When August the Strong took office in 1694, Daser got the position back. The post office was leased to the chief postmaster . As early as 1696 Johann Jakob Kees received it again for 12,000 thalers a year. Under Kees the first Saxon field post order as well as a new post and tax order were worked out and the expansion of the inland and long-distance lines was significantly promoted. In 1704 a postal map of Saxony was published. From 1701 his son from his first marriage, Johann Jakob Kees the Younger (1677–1726), was vice-chief postmaster.
Succession
After the death of his father, Johann Jakob Kees the Younger became Chief Postmaster in 1706. In 1712, the Saxon post office was taken over by the state, and Kees received, in addition to the title of “Court and Justice Council”, a severance payment of 150,000 thalers. With this money he bought the Zöbigker manor south of Leipzig. He had the estate and park thoroughly renovated and new buildings erected in the village. Zöbigker became the ancestral home of the Kees family, which they held until 1945. He also had the Große Funkenburg estate in Leipzig re-performed by David Schatz . In 1861 the family also acquired the estate in neighboring Gautzsch , whose park is still called the Kees'sche Park today. Zöbigker and Gautzsch are now part of Markkleeberg . Hardly any other family has shaped the history of the Markkleeberg villages from the 17th century to the time before the Second World War as deeply as the Kees family.
The Kees family, although no longer resident here, still has ties to the town of Markkleeberg. On March 26, 2004, the city of Markkleeberg honored Bernhard Jakob Kees for his services to the common good with the Medal of Honor and the entry in the city's Golden Book. He had given numerous important and valuable historical documents from the family's property to the public.
literature
- Kurt Krebs: The Saxon postal system at the time of the Oberpostmeister Johann Jakob Kees I and II (= history of the Kees family. Vol. 2), Ed. Hermann Kees, BG Teubner Verlag , Leipzig and Berlin , 1914.
- Erwin Probst: Johann Jakob Kees. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 390 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Andreas Höhn: About postmasters, business acumen and wonderful properties. The Kees family on Zöbigker and Gautzsch . In: Leipziger Blätter (2003), No. 46, pp. 78–80.
- Maria Hübner: The Kees family in Leipzig, Zöbigker and Gautzsch . Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2016.
Web links
- Personalities in Markkleeberg , City of Markkleeberg. (accessed on June 12, 2018)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kees, Johann Jakob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cheese, Johann Jakob; Käß, Johann Jakob; Keese, Johann Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saxon postmaster |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1645 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lindau (Lake Constance) |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 20, 1705 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |