Johann Ludwig Schmidtborn

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Johann Ludwig Schmidtborn (born May 4, 1754 in Alt-Saarbrücken ; † May 8, 1804 there ) was a merchant and mayor of Alt-Saarbrücken (1799–1800).

Life

Ludwig's father was the wholesale merchant and councilor Heinrich Jacob Schmidtborn (1729–1784), his mother Dorothea Magdalena (1732–1777) born. Grain. On October 31, 1776, Ludwig married Luisa Elisabetha (1759–1781) from Scheidt , daughter of the businessman Heinrich Jacob Karcher (1730–1775) in Saarbrücken . Schmidtborn was thus the brother-in-law of his predecessor in the office of Saarbrücken mayor, Jacob Röchlings , who was married to his wife's older sister Dorothea Margaretha (* 1753). They had a daughter together, Luisa Sophia (1778–1813). After the death of his first wife on February 18, 1781, he married Susanne Margarethe Beyer (1755-1827) three years later on August 18, 1784 in Malstatt . This marriage remained childless.

At the end of the First Coalition War , Saarbrücken became a canton municipality in the Département de la Sarre, established in 1798 . Schmidtborn succeeded his predecessor Röchling in December 1799 as President of the Saarbrücken municipal administration, a position he held until November 1, 1800. He then remained a member of the municipal council until his death. Schmidtborn was also a member of the "Krahnengesellschaft" , which was founded in 1760 by the former sovereign, Wilhelm Heinrich von Saarbrücken-Nassau , and which operated a port crane in Saarbrücken on the banks of the Saar . His father was a founding member of the illustrious circle.

His life ended by suicide at the age of 50 . According to tradition , Ludwig Schmidtborn drowned in the Saar in 1804 . Even 27 years earlier, at the age of 45, his mother had ended her life in the same way in the same place.

Honors

See also

Saarbrücken mayor during the Prussian period from 1862 to 1871 was also Johann Carl Schmidtborn (1794–1877), who came from another line of the same family. The Schmidt Bornstraße in the district of Saarbrücken Sankt Arnual reminiscent of the work of the family.

literature

  • Hanns Klein: short biographies of the mayors of Saarbrücken ; in: Journal for the history of the Saar region 19th century, Historical Association for the Saar region , Saarbrücken 1971, p. 512

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personal data
SURNAME Schmidtborn, Johann Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidtborn, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Businessman, mayor
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Old Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1804
Place of death Old Saarbrücken