Person:David Stokar (1)

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David Christoph Stokar
b.5 Jul 1754 Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
d.7 Jul 1814 Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
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  1. Johannes Georg Stokar1783 - 1832
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Name David Christoph Stokar
Alt Name David Christoph Stokar von Neuforn
Gender Male
Birth? 5 Jul 1754 Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Marriage 1780 to Maria Magdalena von Meyenburg
Death? 7 Jul 1814 Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Son of Johann Conrad Stokar and of Ursula Ziegler. Politician and economist. Member of the Schaffhausen city council from 1778. Repeatedly acted as Schaffhausen delegate in the Swiss diet (1786-88, 1791, 1798, 1803-06, 1809, 1812). In 1798 member of the high court of the Helvetic Republic, in 1802 Helvetic Senator and Helvetic delegate at the congress of Rastatt and Regensburg.

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  1.   Elisabeth Breite, 'David Christoph Stokar (1754-1814)' in: Verwaltungspraxis
    26, pp. 244-250, 292-299, 1972.
  2.   D IV.00 Personalia alphabetisch, in Stadtarchiv Schaffhausen.

    Staatsmann, Säckelmeister, Stadtrichter, 'Ehrengesandter über's Gebirge', Regierungsrat, Tagsatzungsgesandter
    Post- und Ordinari Schaffhauser Zeitung 1814, 56 Nachruf
    Biographische Angaben vgl. Handbibliothek: Steinegger, Albert. Biographie in: Schaffhauser Beiträge 33/1956, S. 113-123. Hand 85
    Grosse Verwaltungsmänner der Schweiz. Solothurn 1975. Hand 543

  3.   Christian Baertschi, Stokar, David Christoph (von Neuforn), Historical Dictionary of Switzerland
    2011.
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