Career
Born in the village of Noschkowitz outside Ostrau in the Kingdom of Saxony, Zimmermann emigrated to the United States. They lived there until 1855, when they sold the farm and moved into the Village of Mequon. He at one point held the titles of postmaster and justice of the peace of Mequon, and county treasurer of Ozaukee County, simultaneously.
He served Mequon as an Assessor and on the Town Board and the County Board of Supervisors: he served as chairman of the town for a total of nineteen years, and Chairman of the County Board for eleven.
And held various other local offices. Zimmermann served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1848 (the 1st Wisconsin Legislature) for the Towns of Mequon and Germantown, being succeeded by Peter Turek, also a Democrat, the next year.
(In 1861 what basically the same seat was held by William Opitz, likewise a Democrat) He returned to the Assembly in 1870 (as Adolph Zimmermann) to represent Ozaukee County (Democratic incumbent Job Haskell was not a candidate), having been elected with 979 votes to 853 for former Democratic Assemblyman Alexander M. Alling, now running as a Republican. He was defeated for re-election in 1870 by Charles G. Meyer (like Zimmermann, a Saxon by birth), with Meyer drawing 1,268 votes running as an independent to Zimmermann"s 915.
He was re-elected in 1873, with 679 votes to 319 for independent Rudolph Schmidt.
He was not a candidate for re-election, and was succeeded by Horn. Francis was one of Fredericka and Adolphus" six children. She died July 6, 1884.
Always a Democrat, Zimmermann was a delegate to a number of state and local Democratic conventions, and to the 1880 Democratic National Convention.
