Johann Ellerborn († around 1563)

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Johann Ellerborn (* around 1512 in Aachen ; † around 1563 there) was a lay judge and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen .

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Johann Ellerborn came from an influential family that was originally based in Münstereifel and initially wrote itself to Elreborn and, after moving to the city of Aachen, produced numerous officials there. He was the son of the mayor Johann Ellerborn and brother of Gerhard Ellerborn . From this generation onwards, the family wrote exclusively to Ellerborn. Johann's year of birth results on the one hand from a witness report from 1550 in which he stated that he was around 38 years old, and on the other hand from another interrogation in 1560, where he testifies that he was around 48 years old and had been for 28 years Belong to the college of aldermen. Thus, Johann Ellerborn must have been accepted as successor to his father in the college of aldermen around 1531/1532. In the years 1539, 1541, 1543, 1546, 1548, 1551, 1553, 1555, 1557, 1560 and 1562 Ellerborn was elected mayor of the Free Imperial City of Aachen. Due to the fact that his father's name is identical, the sources do not reveal who of the two was mayor in 1531/32. In addition, Ellerborn had to step in in 1558 as the so-called “stale mayor” for the acting mayor Melchior Colyn, who suddenly died that year .

Ellerborn's later terms of office coincided with the increasingly escalating religious unrest in Aachen , where he represented a strictly Catholic position. When Melchior Colyn campaigned in the context of the negotiations on the Peace of Augsburg in 1555 by means of a petition to the Roman-German King and later Emperor Ferdinand I for the freedom to practice religion for Aachen citizens, Ellerborn tried, by virtue of the still largely Catholic city council, to prevent the individual religious freedoms approved by the king.

Johann Ellerborn was married to Johanna von Hoven, with whom he had four daughters and a son.

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SURNAME Ellerborn, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aldermen and mayor of the Free Imperial City of Aachen
DATE OF BIRTH around 1512
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH around 1563
Place of death Aachen