Alexander Theodor of Oliva

Alexander Theodor von Oliva (baptized June 17, 1691 in Aachen ; † June 10, 1767 there ) was a lay judge and multiple mayor of the imperial city of Aachen .

Life

Alexander Theodor was baptized on June 17, 1691 in Aachen. According to the practice at the time, this date can also be taken as his date of birth. His father was the physician Philipp Oliva, his mother his second wife Anna Elisabeth Daemen.

Alexander Theodor studied law at the University of Leuven and graduated from there in 1713 with a degree . In 1718 he became an intern at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar .

Soon afterwards he was proposed for election as lay judge by the city council of Aachen, but was not elected as lay judge until 1723. In the same year he joined the star guild. In 1729 he was elected mayor for the first time . He held this office a total of 19 times until 1767, 14 of them with the mayor Jakob Niclas from the ranks of the guilds. Von Oliva was the mayor of Aachen with the most terms in office. From 1729 to 1748 he alternated in this two-year cycle with Johann Werner von Broich , from 1749 to 1756 with Franz von Fürth and from 1758 to 1767 with Joseph Xaver von Richterich .

When he took part in the coronation of King Franz I in Frankfurt in 1745, Alexander Theodor was raised to the nobility.

Alexander Theodor von Oliva died shortly before his 78th birthday on June 10, 1767 in his house and was buried in the Nikolauskirche .

family

On June 16, 1725, Alexander Theodor Agnes married Leonharda Katharina von Bodden (1707–1770), whose father was Heinrich Rentmeister von Aachen. In 1726 the couple moved into the woman's parents' house, the house on Pley , today Seilgraben 32. Alexander Theodor had the house rebuilt and expanded by the Aachen builder Laurenz Mefferdatis .

The Oliva couple had twelve children, three of whom died in childhood. Among the nine children who survived the parents was Martin von Oliva (1738-1816), who became a lay judge in 1767 and was mayor of Aachen in 1787/88.

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 . tape 50 , 1928, ISSN  0065-0137 , pp. 1–596, here pp. 473–478 ( online on rootsweb ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Baptismal register of St. Foillan (Aachen)
2. ↑ Since 1450, one of the two mayors of Aachen, who ruled at the same time, was elected from among the lay judges, the other from the group of guilds. The term of office was one year each.