Johannes Schübler

Fragment of the Schübler tomb in the Heilbronn Lapidarium

Johannes Schübler (born April 18, 1686 in Strasbourg ; † June 24, 1757 in Heilbronn ) was Mayor of Heilbronn from 1734 to 1757 .

Life

Schübler was the son of the Strasbourg notary Johannes Schübler and the daughter of the rent master Eva Maria geb. Müller. The parents died early, so that instead of studying, Schübler only completed an apprenticeship as an official clerk. In 1706 he came to Frankfurt am Main , from where he wanted to move on to Holland, but then turned to Heilbronn , where he accepted a job offer in the city chancellery. In 1707 he resigned from the city chancellery, completed an apprenticeship as a notary and in 1709 became a notary himself. In 1714 he was granted citizenship in Heilbronn and became a clerk in the city's arithmetic room, and in 1716 tax clerk. In 1725 he was appointed to the small, inner patrician council of the imperial city of Heilbronn ("von den burgern"), where he followed up in the respective offices according to custom. He was a town builder, became hospital nurse in 1732, tax master in 1733 and, from November 1734, as the successor to the late Johann Bernhard Orth, third mayor and at the same time governor of the imperial town of Flein . In 1740 he moved to the second post of mayor after the death of Wilhelm Ludwig Bardili , and to the post of first mayor after the death of Johann Ludwig Kübel in 1753. He died of a stroke in 1757 and was buried in the cemetery on Weinsberger Strasse . Schübler's ornate tomb was made by the sculptor Johann Baptista Lauggas in Öhringen in 1759, parts of which have been preserved in the lapidary of the Heilbronn City Archives.

His first marriage from 1715 to Anna Catherina Eckstein (1693–1716), his second marriage from 1721 to the town clerk's widow Maria Elisabeth Städel (1687–1722), and his third marriage from 1727 to Maria Margarete Barbara Geiling (1703–1769) , a daughter of the mayor Johann Georg Geiling , married. The three marriages resulted in a total of eleven children, of whom only two sons have become known: Johann Friedrich Schübler (1722–1788) was also a councilor in Heilbronn, his son Christian Ludwig Schübler (1754–1820) later mayor. The second son of Johannes Schübler, Johann Georg Christoph Schübler (1729–1790) became a municipal civil servant in Tübingen.

literature

• Wilhelm Steinhilber: Mayor of Heilbronn in the 18th century (VII) . In: Swabia and Franconia. Local history supplement of the Heilbronn voice . 12th year, no. 4 . Heilbronner Voice publishing house, April 16, 1966, ZDB ID 128017-X .
• Bernd Klagholz: Heilbronn and its mayors in the period from the 16th to the 19th century . Tübingen 1980, p. 82 (admission thesis).