Konrad Hör

Konrad Hör was first mentioned in 1415 and the last time in 1457 in St. Gallen . He was a Swiss merchant and mayor of St. Gallen.

Life

Konrad Hör was probably the son of Hans Hör, who was mayor of St. Gallen in 1380 and came from a patrician family. His brothers, with whom he traded as a canvas dealer in Wroclaw , Vienna and Nuremberg , were:

Kaspar Hör
Hans Ulrich Hör
Otmar Hör.

Together with his brothers, he received a letter of arms from Emperor Sigismund .

In 1415 he became tax master and in 1418 sack master . In 1421 he was appointed Vogt of Grimmenstein near St. Margrethen , and from 1423 he was mayor of St. Gallen eight times.

In 1429 he went to Constance as envoy and was involved in the arbitration between Bishop Otto III. von Hachberg , the St. Jörgenschild Association and Abbot Eglolf Blarer of St. Gallen on the one hand and the Appenzell people on the other.

In 1437 he was arbitrator in the dispute between the heirs of Count Friederich VII of Toggenburg and his widow Elisabeth von Matsch , and in 1457 he took part as a delegate at the 2nd Bern verdict to represent the city against the prince abbey of St. Gallen , which the administrator and later Abbot Ulrich Rösch was represented.

He was one of the most important mayors of St. Gallen in the late Middle Ages.

Konrad Hör was married to Anna, daughter of Kaspar Gössler, Mayor of St. Gallen.

literature

August Naef : Chronicle or Memories of the City and Landscape of St. Gallen. With the epitome of the related Appenzell events. From the oldest to the more recent. Friedrich Schulthess, Zurich, Scheitlin, St. Gallen 1867, p. 64 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Paul Oberholzer: Listen, Konrad. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Paul Oberholzer: Listen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

^ Leonhard Meister: Outline of the federal constitutional law in general along with the special constitutional law of every canton and place . Reutiner, St. Gallen 1786, p. 231 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed December 19, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Listen, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss Mayor
DATE OF BIRTH	14th Century
DATE OF DEATH	15th century

[1] Leonhard Meister: Outline of the federal constitutional law in general along with the special constitutional law of every canton and place . Reutiner, St. Gallen 1786, p. 231 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed December 19, 2018]).