Johannes Fish

John Fish (* 23. May 1757 in Herisau , † 8. October 1819 ibid ; heimatberechtigt in Herisau) was a Swiss businessman , philanthropist and historian and member of the Small Council of the canton of Appenzell Outer Rhodes .

Life

Johannes Fisch was a son of Christoph Fisch and Anna Catharina Lienhart. In 1793 he married Anna Elisabeth Enz, daughter of Hans Conrad Enz, Müller im Kubel. Johannes Fisch was a wealthy merchant in the Baumgarten house in Herisau. From 1797 he was a member of the land registry revision commission . Johannes Fisch enjoyed undivided respect from supporters and opponents of the French Revolution . But he himself kept his distance from the extra-Rhodian revolutionary party.

Johannes Fisch held the office of canton judge in the canton of Säntis from 1798 to 1803 . He was a state ensign from 1803 to 1812. From 1812 to 1816 he was governor and from 1816 to 1818 provincial cap master . From 1803 he shifted his main activity on charitable activities in Herisau, where he 1807 Hülfsgesellschaft initiated and 1814, the Benevolent Society. In 1809 he co-founded the first private secondary school and in 1816 the new orphanage . He managed this until 1819. A society for the reclamation of the local northern Haldengut came from his initiative in 1816. In 1817 he presided over the soup company. From 1809 Johannes Fisch was a member of the Swiss Charitable Society and the Zurich Aid Society. In 1817 he joined the Swiss Society for Natural Sciences . He was the author of the eight-volume manuscript Chronik or Beschreibung des Cantons Appenzell der outer and inner Rooden 1732-1818 .

Works

• Collection of articles from 1770 to 1810 in the Herisau municipal archive.
• Seven volumes of the Chronicle of Appenzell Appenzell Ausserrhoden and Innerrhoden, 1732-1819 , in the Appenzell Ausserrhoden canton library .

literature

• Walter Rotach: The community of Herisau: Description of the place and history. Schläpfer, Herisau 1929.
• Thomas Fuchs: History of the Herisau community. Appenzeller Verlag, Herisau 1999.

Web links

• Thomas Fuchs: Johannes Fisch. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 22, 2015 , accessed April 24, 2020 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the function of the state offices (state builder, state ensign, state governor, governor) cf. Otto Tobler: Development and functions of the state offices in Appenzell A. Rh. From the end of the 14th century to the present. Diss. University of Bern 1905. In: Appenzellische Jahrbücher 34 (1906), pp. 1–164, here above all from p. 71. Web access via e-periodica.ch.

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