Konrad Tanner (politician)

Konrad Tanner (* around 1555 in Herisau ; † 1623 in Güttingen ; authorized to reside in Herisau, later from Appenzell ) was a Swiss governor in the canton of Uri and a long-time member of the small council , governor and delegate of the Appenzell Innerrhoden canton .

Life

Konrad Tanner was a son of Johannes Tanner and Maria Bollenstein. He was married to Verena Schiess. He entered French service early on and soon became a captain . After returning to his large estate near Appenzell, Tanner worked from 1581 to 1585 as a land clerk for the common rulership of the Rhine Valley . However, the appointment of Tanner as Rheineck town clerk was prevented by fierce resistance from the town. He then returned to the French service, despite an official ban. Tanner sat in the Innerrhoder Kleinrat from 1593 to 1597. He was captain of the Lehner Rhode . From 1597 to 1621 he officiated as governor and in 1598 as castvogt of the women's monasteries Wonnenstein and Grimmenstein . From 1599 to 1601, from 1609 to 1610 and from 1614 to 1616 he held the office of Innerrhoder Landammann. He acted 36 times as delegate of the Diet. In between, he performed other military services in Hungary and Milan . After his conversion to Catholicism , Tanner became a militant fighter for the Counter Reformation and the leading figure of the Catholics during the division of the land . Presumably he played a major role in the creation of the Spanish alliance in 1596. In the Tanner trade between 1598 and 1599 he tried in vain to prevent the implementation of the evangelical standard religion in Appenzell Ausserrhoden with the help of the Catholic towns . In 1605 he was one of the founders of the Appenzell canvas trading company. During a pilgrimage to Rome who appointed him Pope to Knights of Tau and Boll stone.

literature

• Hermann Grosser and Norbert Hangartner: Appenzell history. Volume 3. Herisau, Appenzell 1993, pp. 11-20 and 189f.
• Carl Rusch-Hälg: The presumed conversion book of Konrad Tanner, Ritter vom Tau and Bollenstein, 1597. In: Innerrhoder Geschichtsfreund 39, 1998, pp. 109–112.

Web links

• Thomas Fuchs: Konrad Tanner. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 3, 2013 , accessed April 24, 2020 .
• Entry on Konrad Tanner in the collection of Swiss legal sources online

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