Johann Kaspar Ophoff

Johann Kaspar Ophoff (* March 1675 in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ); † March 1742 ibid) was Mayor of Elberfeld.

Ophoff was born as the son of Johannes Ophoff, who came from Elberfeld but later worked as a yarn bleacher in Barmen, and his wife Anna vom Scheidt. Coming from a simple bleacher family, he moved to Elberfeld, where he received citizenship. On June 8, 1702, he married Maria Magdalena Teschemacher (1681–1717), whose father ran the inn “at the last Heller” at the exit to Barmen. In 1703 Johann Kaspar Ophoff himself was referred to as a Riemenschneider and a shopkeeper, later he worked as a merchant. He had four children with Maria Teschemacher. After she died in February 1717, he married Maria Katharina Volkmann (1690–1761), originally from Radevormwald, at the beginning of August of the same year. She was the daughter of Christoph Volkmann, who had already become a citizen of Elberfeld in 1696 and was a member of the Elberfeld council for several years and was related to the mayor of 1717 and 1724, Peter Wichelhausen . He had three other children with his second wife.

Johann Kaspar Ophoff was proposed as mayor in 1734, but was not elected. Without ever having been a member of the council, he was proposed again in 1740, at the age of 65, and elected to office. He held this office for a year and then became city judge on a rotating basis. Before the end of his tenure as city judge in May 1742, he died in March. The funeral took place on March 20th.

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. 78 ff .

predecessor	Office	successor
Peter of Carnap	Mayor of Elberfeld 1740	Peter Silberberg