Albrecht Schrick (politician, 1573)
Albrecht Schrick (born August 24, 1573 in Aachen ; † November 1, 1640 ibid) was a German politician, lay judge and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen .
Live and act
Albrecht Schrick came from a Catholic family and was the son of Albrecht Schrick, the elder, and Anna Nickel († 1598) from Jülich . Schrick grew up at a time when the Aachen religious unrest was at its height and his father had been banned twice by the evangelical councilors, who had meanwhile had a majority. Only when the Catholic councilors were reinstated by imperial resolution on September 1, 1598, did Schrick's appointment as Meier von Burtscheid as successor to the outlawed Bonifacius Colyn on October 5 . The unrest and the mutual ostracism were not yet over and Schrick was initially released from his position as Meier in 1605, but reintroduced in the same year. In 1612 he was dismissed from office again and this time it took until 1614 before he could start his service again. In the following two decades Schrick was elected ten times to the office of mayor of the city of Aachen, namely in the years 1616/17, 1618/19 (each with Johann Schörer as mayor from the ranks of the guilds), 1620/21 (with Egidius Bleyenheuft ), 1622/23, 1624/25, 1626/27, 1628/29 (each with Dietrich Speckhewer ), 1630/31, 1632/33, 1634/35 (each with Kaspar von Löwenich).
In the meantime Schrick had joined the Sacrament Brotherhood of St. Foillan in 1599 and had been a member of the Aachen Schöffenstuhl since 1601. In 1607 he was a member of the board of directors of the " Gymnasium Marianum of the Jesuit Order ".
During his tenure as mayor, with the laying of the foundation stone of the Aachen Jesuit Church on May 28, 1618, he started the construction of the church and at the end of the 1610s was one of the initiators who had a new bronze bowl cast at Aachen's Karlsbrunnen , which he inaugurated in 1620 and on which both his family coat of arms and those of the other participating mayors were engraved. In 1624 Schrick led a delegation to the Emperor Ferdinand II in Vienna , to whom he brought several precious pistols made in Aachen in the hope that the Emperor would support the Spanish protective power stationed in Aachen after the religious unrest with more than 16,000 soldiers under the command of the Marquis Ambrosio Spinola would withdraw again. But it was not until 1632 that the emperor complied with this request.
Albrecht Schrick died on November 1, 1640 of the effects of dropsy . He was married to Adelheid Ingermans von Gürzenich, who bore him two sons who, however, died in childhood. Schricks diary is part of the Aachen city archive and a portrait of him from 1638 is in the possession of the descendants of the von Fürth family at Kasteel Rivieren in Klimmen in the municipality of Voerendaal near Heerlen .
literature
- Luise Freiin von Coels von der Brügghen : The lay judges of the Royal See of Aachen from the earliest times until the final repeal of the imperial city constitution in 1798 . In: Journal of the Aachen History Association . No. 50 . Publishing house of the Aachen History Association , Aachen 1928, p. 361-364 ( p. 361-363 and p. 364 online on rootsweb ).
- Luise Freiin von Coels von der Brügghen: The Aachen mayors from 1251 to 1798 . In: Journal of the Aachen History Association . tape 55, 1933/34 , pp. 67–68 ( aachener-geschichtsverein.de [PDF; 1.7 MB ]).
Individual evidence
- ^ Inscription catalog : Aachen (city). DI 32, City of Aachen, No. 118. German Inscriptions Online , accessed on May 10, 2019 .
- ↑ 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 | August 24, 1573 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1640 |
| Place of death | Aachen |