Jakob Niclas

Jakob Niclas (born January 4, 1678 in Aachen , † 1755 ) was a German municipal civil servant and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen .

Live and act

Jakob Niclas was the son of the imperial fief administrator Peter Niclas (1645–1695) and Magdalena Weißenberg (* 1641). He went through a civil civil service career, became a city builder in 1730 and a year later took over the rent office as rent master . In 1732 he joined the foremen's guild, which consisted mainly of cloth manufacturers and wool weavers. He was also a member of the Sacrament Brotherhood of St. Foillan , to whose Greven he was elected in 1747.

In the years 1731/32, 1733/34, 1735/36, 1737/38, 1739/40, 1741/42, 1743/44, 1745/46, 1747/48, 1749/50, 1751/52, 1753/54 and in 1755/56 he was elected a total of thirteen times as mayor from the ranks of the guilds, together with the mayor of lay judges Alexander Theodor von Oliva . Since these two mayors felt obliged to the more conservative and traditionally oriented so-called “Old Party” and both replaced each other with like-minded officials every year, the up-and-coming “New Party”, consisting primarily of merchants and leading cloth and needle manufacturers, saw each other existed, massively blocked and disadvantaged, which further heated up the long-standing Aachen complaint .

As mayor, Niclas represented the city of Aachen on February 2, 1742 at the celebrations for the coronation of Emperor Charles VII and on September 13, 1745 at the coronation of Emperor Franz I in Frankfurt am Main .

Jakob Niclas was married to Maria Johanna von Meven, who gave birth to nine children. After her death in 1720 he married Maria Katharina von Meven (* 1693), with whom no more children were born. Niclas was the owner of the Treut estate, a listed three-winged courtyard in broken and brick construction in the later Aachen district of Laurensberg , which was built in the 18th century on considerably older foundations.

Literature and Sources

• Hermann Friedrich Macco : Aachen coat of arms and genealogies , Volume 1, Aachen 1907, pp. 27-28 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. 74/75 ( aachener-geschichtsverein.de [PDF; 1.7 MB ]).