Balzer Peter Vahl (28 August 1718 in
Lassan – 1792) was
burgomaster
Burgomaster (alternatively spelled burgermeister, literally "master of the town, master of the borough, master of the fortress, master of the citizens") is the English form of various terms in or derived from Germanic languages for the chie ...
of
Greifswald
Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (german: Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rosto ...
. He founded the Greifswald merchant family
Wahl
He became a merchant on 18 April 1744 in the first estate citizens of Greifswald. The merchant belongs from 1747 to the fifty men and from 1751 to the of the city. In 1755 he became member of the town council and from 1762 the city's treasurer. From 1785 he was the third mayor and held this office until his death in 1792. He supervised the deconstruction decided by the city council in 1782 and the transformation of parts of the into a green area (Wallpromenade).
[''.'' 1887, .]
He was married to Christine Elisabeth Venthien (1723-1782). Beside several daughters, das Ehepaar had two sons: Gottfried Michael (1748-1811) and
Balzer Peter.
Further reading
* ''Bericht des literarisch-geselligen Vereins zu Stralsund über sein Bestehen während der Jahre 1860 und 1861.'' Hingstsche Buchhandlung, Stralsund 1862,
Google books.
*
Heinrich Berghaus
Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus (3 May 1797 – 17 February 1884) was a German geographer and cartographer who conducted trigonometric surveys in Prussia and taught geodesy at the Bauakademie in Berlin. He taught cartography and produced a pioneeri ...
: ''Landbuch des Herzogthums Pommern und des Fürstenthums Rügen''. part 4, vol. 1, W. Dietze, Anklam 1866,
numerised.
* Heiko Schäfer: Bemerkenswerte Funde aus dem frühen 14. Jahrhundert vom Grundstück Markt 12 in Greifswald. In ' (edit.): . Neue Folge vol. 81, N. G. Elwert, Marburg 1995,
numerised.
References
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German merchants
1718 births
1792 deaths
People from Mecklenburg