Johannes Walser (entrepreneur, 1739)

Johannes Walser (born December 5, 1739 in Urnäsch , † February 13, 1805 in St. Petersburg ; legal resident in Herisau ) was a Swiss merchant from the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden .

Life

Johannes Walser was a son of Gabriel Walser, pastor and Susanna Barbara Meyer. In 1765 he married Katharina Zellweger, daughter of Sebastian Zellweger, captain. From 1789 to 1795, the merchant Walser was the main partner in the Johannes Walser & Compagnie company, which traded in textile and colonial goods as well as doing bills of exchange. He traded mainly in Eastern Europe . He owned warehouses in Moscow , Leipzig , Frankfurt am Main and Amsterdam . In 1795 he founded a trading company in Moscow. He belonged to the first merchants' guild of Moscow and St. Petersburg. In 1792 Walser set up an art institute in Herisau to produce copperplate engravings with Russian cityscapes. Over 40 large-format views were created, but the company turned into a financial debacle.

literature

• Walter Schläpfer: Appenzell history. Edited by the Government Council of the Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden Volume 2. Herisau / Appenzell 1972.
• Walter Schläpfer: Economic history of the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden until 1939. H. Kern, Gais 1984, p. 98.
• Peter Witschi: Appenzeller all over the world. Schläpfer, Herisau 1994, pp. 164-166.
• Hans Hürlemann: Dutch on Herisau walls. In: Appenzeller Zeitung. February 24, 2001, No. 46, p. 49.
• Arnold Flammer: Annual Reports 2005 of the Preservation of Monuments, Cantonal Library, State Archives. 2006, pp. 12-17.
• Peter Witschi: Johannes Walser: from textile merchant to art publisher. In: Cheese makers, artists, communists: forty Russian-Swiss life stories from four centuries. Edited by Eva Maeder and Peter Niederhäuser. Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2009, pp. 44–47.

Web links

• Thomas Fuchs: Johannes Walser. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 20, 2013 , accessed April 20, 2020 .

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