Emanuel Rodt, Bernese town clerk from 1693–1710, painting by Johann Rudolf Huber (1704)
The first Bernese town clerk known in terms of sources was Burchardus, notarius bernensis . Ulrich von Gysenstein is referred to as Stettschriber in 1312 . The town clerk was the head of the town chancellery. After the Reformation he had his apartment in the office building next to the town hall . The town clerk kept the town documents, conducted the correspondence with the authorities and wrote the minutes of the small council, alternately with the council clerk and the signatory. In the early modern period, the town clerk had to belong to the Grand Council, and since the 18th century the term of office was limited to twelve years. From around the middle of the 18th century, the town clerk was increasingly referred to as a state clerk .
With the separation of the city and canton of Bern after the Helvetic Republic , the state clerk was responsible for the newly created canton and the city clerk for the municipality.
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Johann Rudolf Gruner, Deliciae urbis Bernae: Merckworthiness of the hochlöbl. City of Bern. Compiled from mostly unprinted authentic writings , Zurich 1732, pp. 316–319. Digitized
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Manuel Kehrli: His mind is capable of anything. The painter, collector and art connoisseur Johann Rudolf Huber (1668-1748). Basel 2010, pp. 98–100.
Mathias Sulser: The town clerk Peter Cyro and the Bernese Chancellery at the time of the Reformation , Bern 1922.
