Othmar Schlaipfer

Othmar Schlaipfer , also Othmar Schläpfer (first mentioned in 1440 in St. Gallen ; † 1485 ibid), was a mayor of St. Gallen ( Switzerland ).

Life

Othmar Schlaipfer was born as the son of Rudolf Schlaipfer, master builder and landowner.

In 1441 he became a fiefdom holder of the Vogtei Neuchlen near Gossau , which Count Friedrich VII of Toggenburg had given his father.

In the 1450s and 1460s, he was often in Genoa as a representative of the Ravensburger trading company . He was a member of the weavers' guild and was awarded a 911 in 1456.

From 1465 to 1471 he was councilor, and from 1471 to 1478 he alternated with Hans Schurff and Ludwig Vogelweider and from 1478 to 1485 with Georg Gmünder and Ulrich Varnbühler every three years as mayor , former mayor and imperial bailiff ; During this time he was responsible for buying canvas in St. Gallen from 1474.

Othmar Schlaipfer was married. His daughter Verena entered the Katharina Monastery in St. Gallen in 1479 as sister Juliana .

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

Patric Schnitzer: Schlaipfer, Othmar. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

↑ Gustav Schwab: Switzerland in its knight castles and mountain castles historically depicted by writers from the fatherland. With a historical introduction by Professor J. J. Hottinger in Zurich and edited by Professor Gustav Schwab in Stuttgart . tape 3 . Dalp, Bern / Chur / Leipzig 1839, p. 295 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed December 23, 2018]).
↑ Guild Constitution of the City of St. Gallen. Retrieved December 23, 2018 .
↑ Simone Mengis: Writing women around 1500. Scriptorium and library of the Dominican convent St. Katharina St. Gallen . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-022089-6 , pp. 111 ( table of contents in Google Book Search [accessed December 23, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Schlaipfer, Othmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schläpfer, Othmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss Mayor
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century
DATE OF DEATH	1485
Place of death	St. Gallen

[1] Gustav Schwab: Switzerland in its knight castles and mountain castles historically depicted by writers from the fatherland. With a historical introduction by Professor J. J. Hottinger in Zurich and edited by Professor Gustav Schwab in Stuttgart . tape 3 . Dalp, Bern / Chur / Leipzig 1839, p. 295 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed December 23, 2018]).

[2] Guild Constitution of the City of St. Gallen. Retrieved December 23, 2018 .

[3] Simone Mengis: Writing women around 1500. Scriptorium and library of the Dominican convent St. Katharina St. Gallen . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-022089-6 , pp. 111 ( table of contents in Google Book Search [accessed December 23, 2018]).