Johannes Zellweger-Hirzel

Johannes Zellweger-Hirzel, painted by Felix Maria Diogg , oil on canvas, 1794.

John Zellweger Hirzel (* 6. December 1730 in Trogen , † 21st February 1802 ibid ; heimatberechtigt in Trogen) was a Swiss businessman , a textile manufacturer, councilor, municipal secretaries and state ensign in the canton of Appenzell Outer Rhodes .

Life

Johannes Zellweger-Hirzel was a son of Johannes Zellweger . He married Barbara Schiess, daughter of Johann Ulrich Schiess . He entered into a second marriage with Anna Hirzel, daughter of Hans Caspar Hirzel , governor . He was the brother-in-law of Hans Caspar Hirzel and Salomon Hirzel . By 1753 he completed a commercial training in his father's trading house in Lyon . From 1755 he and his brother Jakob Zellweger were partners in the Zellweger & Compagnie brothers in Trogen, Lyon and Genoa . From 1758 to 1760 he was councilor and parish clerk in Trogen. In 1760 he was district captain and from 1766 to 1667 Ausserrhoder regional ensign. In 1774 he separated from his brother and founded the company Zellweger Vater & Compagnie in Trogen, Lyon and Genoa. From 1789 to 1795 he was a partner in the Johannes Walser & Compagnie trading company in Herisau . In the 1790s, Zellweger gave his sons Jakob Zellweger and Johann Caspar Zellweger a share in his own company. This was renamed Zellweger & Compagnie. For political reasons he spent the years 1798 to 1799 in exile in Bregenz . Zellweger was one of the richest Swiss. He represented the trade dynasty of Zellweger at its peak. From 1764 he was a member and 1776 President of the Helvetic Society .

literature

• Johannes Zellweger-Hirzel's estate in the Appenzell Ausserrhoden Cantonal Library
• Ernst H. Koller, Jakob Signer: Appenzell coat of arms and gender book. Stämpfli, Bern 1926, p. 401f.
• Peter Holderegger: Entrepreneurs in Appenzellerland: History of industrial entrepreneurship in Appenzell Ausserrhoden from the beginning to the present. Schläpfer, Herisau 1992.
• Heidi Eisenhut: "The building seems strange to me." The pentagonal palace in Trogen and the Zellweger family. Appenzeller Verlag, Schwellbrunn 2019.

Web links

• Thomas Fuchs: Johannes Zellweger. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 7, 2014 , accessed May 28, 2020 .
• Website Jahrhundert der Zellweger with an article about Johannes Zellweger-Hirzel , accessed on August 20, 2020.
• Zellweger family archive in the Appenzell Ausserrhoden canton library .
• Commercial archive Zellweger in the State Archive Appenzell Ausserrhoden .

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