Johannes Zellweger-Sulser

John Zellweger Sulser (* 14. August 1695 in Trogen , † 11. February 1774 ibid ; heimatberechtigt in Trogen) was a Swiss businessman , a textile manufacturer, councilor, governor and bailiff of the canton of Appenzell Outer Rhodes .

Life

Johannes Zellweger-Sulser was a son of Conrad Zellweger and a brother of Laurenz Zellweger . In 1719 he married Ursula Sulser, daughter of Jakob Sulser , freight forwarder and land manager. He attended schools in Lyon and completed commercial training in his father's trading house. In 1722 he joined his father's company. Zellweger led this from 1726 with his brother Conrad Zellweger . The Zellweger brothers, with the help of the Sulser brothers by marriage, set up branches in Barcelona and Lyon in Azmoos . From 1741 to 1744 he was councilor in Trogen. From 1744 to 1745 he served as governor of Ausserrhoder and from 1745 to 1747 as governor. In 1755 Zellweger separated from his brother. He took the sons Jakob Zellweger and Johannes Zellweger and in 1757 his son-in-law Sebastian Honnerlag into the company Gebrüder Zellweger & Compagnie. This was now also in the cotton business and from the 1760s in the trade in embroidery . In 1768 he retired into private life.

literature

• The estate of Johannes Zellweger-Sulser in the Appenzell Ausserrhoden canton library
• Ernst H. Koller and Jakob Signer: Appenzell's coat of arms and gender book. Bern: Stämpfli 1926, p. 401.
• Peter Holderegger: Entrepreneurs in Appenzellerland: History of industrial entrepreneurship in Appenzell Ausserrhoden from the beginning to the present. Herisau: Schläpfer 1992, p. 102f.
• Matthias Weishaupt: ties of respect and love: eleven portraits of the Zellweger family from the 18th century. Catalog for the exhibition in the ballroom of the Cantonal Library of Appenzell A.Rh., Trogen, January 21 to March 31, 2000. Wald: Traber 2000, pp. 18–21.

Web links

• Thomas Fuchs: Johannes Zellweger. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 10, 2013 , accessed May 28, 2020 .

• Commercial archive Zellweger in the State Archive Appenzell Ausserrhoden .

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