Johann Nicolaus Jacob

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Johann Nicolaus Jacob (born March 26, 1774 in Schopp ; † February 3, 1856 in Kaiserslautern ) was a Palatinate economist and landowner. He was a long-time member of the Palatinate district administrator and Bavarian state parliament member.

Pfaffenhof's wine cellar

Life

Jacob was the son of the Schopper timber merchant and landowner Joh. Peter Jacob (1739-1819) and Maria Salome Stein (1749-1834). He married Charlotte Späth (1778–1845), the daughter of the Riesenwirt in Kaiserslautern. The couple had fourteen children.

Jacob had inherited extensive land and forest holdings in Holzland . After his marriage he went to Kaiserslautern, where he built two houses on Marktstrasse and among other things ran a beer brewery. He was also involved in the Palatinate mercury mining . In 1817 he acquired a winery in Herxheim am Berg , today's Pfaffenhof , as a summer house , which his great-grandchildren sold again in 1911.

The Palatine Landrath belonged to Jacob from the beginning to the 1830th As a representative of the Rhine district , he was elected to the seventh state parliament of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies in the fourth electoral period (1836–1839) . In an assessment from 1836 it was said that it had no further political definition and that it could be steered and influenced .

Jacobstraße in Kaiserslautern is named after his family. Jacob's second youngest son, Johann Wilhelm Jacob , also became an entrepreneur and member of the state parliament, his youngest son, the doctor and author Carl Jacob , became a member and secretary of the Palatinate district council in 1865 and president of this district parliament from 1873 to 1882.

literature

  • Heinz Friedel : The Jacob family . In: Schopp. The story of a village in the Palatinate Holzland. Ed .: Community administration Schopp, 1964.
  • August and Elise Gerle: The Jacob family . Kaiserslautern 1931. p. 8f.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ The tombstone of both is a listed building
  2. ↑ See his entry in the parliamentary database.
personal data
SURNAME Jacob, Johann Nicolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian member of parliament, economist and landowner
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Schopp
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1856
Place of death Kaiserslautern