Albrecht Schrick (politician, 1532)

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Albrecht Schrick (born August 16, 1532 in Aachen ; † September 21, 1598 ibid) was a German lay judge and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen .

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Albrecht Schrick came from a Catholic family and was the son of Matthäus Schrick († 1549) and Angela Pael († 1547). In 1564 he was accepted into the lay jury and the star guild, the professional representative of the jury, and in 1571 he was elected as jury mayor and two years later as secular jury at the sending court . In 1578 Schrick was elected despite the since 1576 the ruling majority of the Reformed in the City Council again to the mayor, but after his term of office a year later with his family at his country estate to Pier moved after his eight-year-old daughter Angela at rampant in Aachen plague died was. Nevertheless, in 1580 he accepted the election to the “Small Council” of the city of Aachen, which dealt with the city and state sovereignty and formed the higher and appellate courts.

In the meantime, the religious unrest in Aachen had reached its peak and thus had an impact on the mayoral election in 1581. Although Albrecht Schrick as lay mayor and Johann Fiebus as mayor from the ranks of the guilds from the Catholic parliamentary group as well as Johann von Lontzen and Simon II Engelbrecht was elected by the Protestant party, but a few weeks later on June 5th there was a new election and Lontzen and Fiebus confirmed this. As a further consequence of the ongoing unrest, Schrick, like many other Aachen Catholics and council members, was forced to flee to Jülich Land. Despite important mediation from Bonifacius Colyn and a trip from Schrick to the imperial court in Vienna in December 1581 and again in April 1583, where he had asked for the protection of Emperor Rudolf II for the expelled Catholics from Aachen, it took until March 1584, until he was allowed to return to Aachen under imperial escort. Three years later, Schrick entered the Sacramentary Brotherhood at St. Foillan . At the same time he litigated with the Reichshofrat in Vienna for the reintroduction of the Catholic mayors who had been dismissed from their offices and was once again exiled from Aachen as secular deputy on August 1, 1590, after which he moved back to his property in Jülich . Finally, on August 27, 1593, Schrick was granted the right to return to Aachen and to resume the mayor's office, which was forcibly resigned in 1581. Due to tactical delays by the city council, however, it took until September 1, 1598, before Schrick was able to re-enter Aachen with great pomp. The next day he was elected mayor together with the mayor Jakob Moll. The psychological stress of the last few years left its mark and Schrick died on September 21, 1598, three weeks after his return to Aachen. The fellow aldermen and stale (former) mayor Wilhelm von Wylre then succeeded Schrick.

Albrecht Schrick was married to Anna Nickel from Jülich, who died just one day after her husband. The couple had 10 children, three of whom did not survive the plague epidemic. Two of her sons became Catholic clergymen and two others followed their father into the jury. Of these, Albrecht Schrick (1573–1640) was multiple mayor in Aachen and Meier von Burtscheid and Franz Schrick (1583–1639) councilor, Neumann, master builder and foreman in Aachen, whose grandson Johann Albrecht Schrick was the last elected mayor of the family. The heirs of Albrecht Schrick received posthumously in 1602 a compensation payment in the amount of 2,500 Reichstalers for his double banishment. A portrait of him is in the holdings of the descendants of the von Fürth / de Marchant et d'Ansembourg family on Kasteel Rivieren in Klimmen in the municipality of Voerendaal near Heerlen .

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  1. ↑ History of Kasteel Rivieren (ndl.)
personal data
SURNAME Schrick, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aldermen and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
DATE OF BIRTH baptized August 16, 1532
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1598
Place of death Aachen