Johann Peter Silberberg

Johann Peter Silberberg (born September 8, 1726 in Elberfeld (today a district of Wuppertal ); † March 21, 1797 there ) was the mayor of Elberfeld.

Silberberg was born the son of Peter Silberberg (1687–1757), who had been mayor in 1741, and his wife Anna Margareta Hohdahl (1692–1777). Silberberg himself began, like his father, as a wine merchant in Elberfeld and married Maria Katharina vom Scheidt (1732–1800) on April 10, 1753, with whom he had seven children.

Silberberg first became a council member in 1759. In 1764 and 1768 he was proposed for the office of mayor, but not elected. This changed when he prevailed against the competition in 1769 and was mayor for a year. In the following year he became a city judge and then a council member again until 1774. He was that again in 1777 and in 1778 he became mayor for the second time and thus again city judge in 1779. He was then a member of the council again from 1780 to 1782 and 1784 to 1787.

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. 124 ff .

predecessor	Office	successor
Isaac locks	Mayor of Elberfeld 1769	Werner de Weerth
Johann Wilhelm Siebel	Mayor of Elberfeld 1778	Werner de Weerth