Johann Jakob Merkel

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Johann Jakob Merkel (* 1748 , † 1817 ) was from 1804 to 1817 the city mayor of the city of Ravensburg .

Life

After studying law in Erlangen and Göttingen, Johann Jakob Merkel was city clerk from 1771 to 1782 during the imperial city period until 1770, and later city syndic in Ravensburg.

In 1804 he was elected city schoolmaster (mayor) of Ravensburg. As a bourgeois, Protestant mayor, he shared the management of office with the noble Catholic Joseph Emanuel von Ortlieb on a monthly basis. In 1817 a committee of 12 community deputies was elected as part of the civil self-government promoted by King Wilhelm I ; no more noble among them.

After the death of Johann Jakob Merkel in 1817, Joseph Emanuel von Ortlieb acted as city council of the organic edict of December 31, 1818 until 1819.

literature

  • Johann Georg Beck: Feeling of friendship when his friend / Jakob Merkels said goodbye / JU L: from the University of Göttingen. Göttingen: Barmeier 1770

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Alfred Lutz : Between Persistence and Awakening: Ravensburg, 1810-1847
  2. ↑ Casimir Bumiller: “Nobility in Transition: Upper Swabia from the Early Modern Era to the Present”, Volume 2, page 671
  3. ^ "The patriciate of the imperial city of Ravensburg", 1966, page 481
predecessor Office successor
... Lord Mayor of Ravensburg
1804–1817 		Johann Jakob Motz


personal data
SURNAME Merkel, Johann Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Mayor of Baden-Württemberg
DATE OF BIRTH 1748
DATE OF DEATH 1817