Balthasar Fiebus the Younger

Balthasar Fiebus (Macco spelling: Feibus ; * November 18, 1646 in Aachen ; † 1714 or 1715) was a German politician and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen .

Live and act

Balthasar Fiebus came from a Catholic patrician family and was the son of the multiple Aachen mayor Nikolaus Fiebus and his wife from his second marriage, Agathe Rickers from Hambach . Although a brewer and forester by nature , he got involved in local politics. From the ranks of the guilds Fiebus became in the years 1695/96, 1697/98, 1699/1700, 1701/02, 1703/04, 1705/06, 1707/08, 1709/10, 1711/12 and 1713/14 to the Citizen mayor elected. In his third to fifth term in office, he ruled Aachen without the usual second mayor from among the lay judges, since between 1671 and 1673 the lay judges did not propose a candidate from their ranks in protest against the city of Aachen because their candidate for 1670 was not recognized by the council had been.

It was the heyday of the Aachener Mäkelei , when there was excess corruption and mostly family-internal position agreements in the Aachen city council. Among other things, Balthasar Fiebus and his brother-in-law Mathias Maw , like his father and his brother-in-law Gerlach Maw , took turns in the office of mayor every year for years.

Balthasar Fiebus was married to Maria Anna de Fays from Liège , no children have been recorded. He owned a brewery on Peterstrasse, which he had sold in 1694 and for this purpose acquired the Klein Beulardstein estate in the current Laurensberg district in 1711 . He died either in 1714 or 1715, depending on the source.

Broich / Fiebus coat of arms stone above the archway of Alt-Linzenzhäuschen

A coat of arms of Balthasar Fiebus and the mayor of the mayor Werner von Broich with the year 1700 is currently located above the entrance of Alt-Linzenshäuschen , after it had previously been attached to a neighboring and now demolished hermitage. A second stone with the coats of arms of the two mayors and the year 1708 is walled in in a carriage house in Ludwigsallee 65. In addition, the coats of arms of the current building master are engraved on all of these stones.

Literature and Sources

• Hermann Friedrich Macco : Aachen coat of arms and genealogies , Volume 1, Aachen 1907, p. 132 digitized
• 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. 72/73 ( aachener-geschichtsverein.de [PDF; 1.7 MB ]).