Küpfer (Bern)
Küpfer coat of arms in Zimmerwald church (1770)
Samuel Küpfer (1687–1765), gross woman. Portrait of Johann Rudolf Huber (1732).
The family Küpfer is originally from the Emmental originating Berner Burger family, which since about 1550 the Burger rights owned by the city of Bern and today the guild to Webern heard.
The regimental family Küpfer goes back to the fisherman Johannes Küpfer († 1568). The widely ramified sex was active in a wide variety of professions and therefore had a good reputation for shipmen , shoemakers and weavers .
Four members of the family joined the Grand Council in the 16th and 17th centuries, numerous representatives were clergy and officers. Several generations were dyers. Jerome Küpfer is reasonable Indienne -Fabrikation in Bern. Johann Friedrich and Johann Rudolf Küpfer were involved in the Henzi conspiracy .
people
- Peter Küpfer (1620–1677), dyer, member of the Grand Council, senior hospital master
- Hieronymus Küpfer (1679–1756), textile dyer and India manufacturer
- Samuel Küpfer (1687–1765), printer, member of the Grand Council, Grossweibel , Obervogt in Lenzburg
- Johann Friedrich Küpfer (1708–1757), indienne and calico manufacturer in Sulgenbach, participant in the Henzi conspiracy, took over what would later become KBC in Lörrach
- Samuel Küpfer (1712–1787), pastor in Zimmerwald and Madiswil
- Johann Rudolf Küpfer (1727–1792), notary, geometer , road inspector, governor of Landshut, Kastlan of Frutigen
Archives
literature
- Hans Braun: Küpfer. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- W. Fetscherin: Contributions to the history of the cotton industry in old Bern. Bern 1924, pp. 26–35.
- Johann Rudolf Küpfer: Jurisdictions a. March description of the Frutigen office. [1785].
- Samuel Küpfer: Collectio numismatum veterum et recentiorum quam magno studio, et labore fecit. Bern 1750.
- Johann Lindt: The Küpfer printing company in Bern. Bern 1966.
Web links
Commons : Küpfer family - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Küpfer coat of arms on www.chgh.ch