Johann Kaspar Cappel

Johann Kaspar Cappel (* June 1710 in Elberfeld (today part of Wuppertal ); † January 1764 there ) was mayor of Elberfeld.

Cappel was born the son of the Elberfeld merchant and mayor of 1715 Johann Peter Cappel (1668–1725) and was baptized on June 28, 1710. His mother was called Maria Magdalena von Carnap (1686–1731) and was the daughter of Kaspar von Carnap (1648–1727), who had been mayor six times.

He himself married Charlotta von Carnap (1717–1792), his cousin, on June 18, 1739 in Elberfeld. She was the daughter of Wilhelm von Carnap (1680–1749), two-time mayor in 1718 and 1725 and the younger brother of Johann Kaspar Cappels mother. Cappel had three children with his wife, but they all died in childhood.

Like his father, Cappel started out as a businessman in Elberfeld. From 1740 to 1745, 1748, 1750, 1752 and 1753 he was a member of the Elberfeld City Council. In 1742, 1744 and 1751 he was unsuccessfully proposed for the office of mayor. It was not until the election in 1754 that he was elected to the office that he held for a year before he became city judge in 1755. The following year he was a council member again. Cappel died in January 1764 and was buried on the 26th.

literature

• Edmund Strutz : The pedigree of the Elberfeld mayors and city judges from 1708–1808 . 2nd Edition. Degener, Neustadt ad Aisch 1963, ISBN 3-7686-4069-8 , p. 102 f .

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Jakob on the Heyden	Mayor of Elberfeld 1754	Abraham Siebel