Arnold Volmer

Arnold Volmer (* 14th century ; † around 1387 in Aachen ) was a lay judge and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen .

Live and act

Arnold Volmer came from an old patrician and lay judge family, whose members held public offices in Aachen at the beginning of the 14th century. These included the mayors of lay judges Volmer in St. Jacobstrasse and Walter Volmer as well as Konrad Volmer , who did not belong to the lay judge's chair, but was elected mayor-mayor. Arnold's sister Belge was married to the mayor Reinhard von Moirke, the younger . He himself worked as a rent master around 1371 and was appointed Christoffel of the Albrechtsgrafschaft in 1373 and accepted into the college of lay judges a year later. In the years 1372, 1374 and 1386 Volmer was finally elected mayor of the Free Imperial City of Aachen.

After Arnold Volmer himself had become a victim of a breach of the peace in 1382 and was temporarily imprisoned by Hermann von Randerath together with Johann von Pont , he moved with the Aachen lay judges Johann and Heinrich Bertolf , Reinhard von Moirke , Johann and Konrad von Pont and together with them the allied troops of the peace alliance Maas-Rhein out to the Castle Reifferscheid to besiege. They accused Johann V. von Reifferscheid of numerous raids in the near and far surroundings and of breaking the peace. The siege itself was initially unsuccessful and the Alliance troops withdrew after three months of unsuccessful things. Nevertheless, the Landfriedensbund was able to commit Johann V. von Reifferscheid to an eight-year peace treaty. Subsequently, Volmer represented the city of Aachen several times as a delegate at important consultations and at state parliaments.

Arnold Volmer was married to Griete Beissel, with whom he had two daughters, including Nese, who married the future mayor Christian van den Canel . Already in 1372 Arnold Volmer was from Archbishop Friedrich III. were enfeoffed by the Saar with 62 acres of land, which was located in the church games Euchen and Bardenberg .

Literature and Sources

• 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. 126/127 , No. 126 ( rootsweb.ancestry.com ).
• 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. 48/49 ( aachener-geschichtsverein.de [PDF; 1.7 MB ]).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Friedrich Macco: Aachen coat of arms and genealogies. Volume 2. Aachen 1907, S.208 and S. 209 rootsweb.ancestry.com
2. ^ Christoffel in Aachen