Johann Peter de Landas

Johann Peter de Landas (born June 12, 1703 in Elberfeld (today a district of Wuppertal ); † December 1768 there ) was mayor of Elberfeld.

The father of Peter de Landas, Nikolaus de Landas (1667-1730), was with his father Jean Jacques Antoine Victor de Landas (1622-1723) after the repeal of the Edict of Nantes and the associated persecution of Protestants from France to the Bergisches Land fled, where he worked as a French language teacher first in Solingen and later in Elberfeld. In Elberfeld, Nikolaus de Landas met Helena Plücker, the granddaughter of the multiple mayor Kaspar Plücker (1614–1665), who he married there.

Peter de Landas himself began as a merchant in Elberfeld. He married Helena Katharina Schlösser (1697–1783) there on January 25, 1724, with whom he had five children, two of whom died shortly after birth. Peter de Landas was proposed and elected mayor for the first time in 1749. The following year he became a city judge and in 1751 he was a councilor. In 1759 he was proposed again for the office of mayor and was re-elected. In 1760 he was city judge for the second time.

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. 94 f .

predecessor	Office	successor
Christian Ludwig Frowein	Mayor of Elberfeld 1749	Johann Wilhelm Siebel
Johann Kaspar Bergmann	Mayor of Elberfeld 1759	Johann Eberhard Hoffmann