Johann Jakob von Wylre

Johann Jakob von Wylre (baptized October 2, 1707 in Aachen ; † April 1793 there ) was aldermen and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen .

Life

Von Wylre was baptized on October 2, 1707 in Aachen in the name of Johann Jakob Joseph Michael. His parents were Hubert Friedrich Hyacinth von Wylre zu Hegum, a son of the multiple mayor Johann Bertram von Wylre (1623–1679), and his wife Anna Katharina Dumont.

In 1730, Johann Jakob von Wylre was first documented as a lay judge. In the same year he joined the star guild, the professional representation of the Aachen lay judges. After no lay mayor had been elected due to a dispute between the council and the lay judges in 1768, Wylre was elected to this office in the election in January 1769, which was made up eight months late. His first term of office was therefore only four months. Between 1769 and 1786 he was mayor ten times, alternating between two years with Joseph Xaver von Richterich .

During the Aachen complaint , von Wylre was on the side of the Old Party. After the mayor (sic! = Mayor of the guilds) Stephan Dominicus Dauven was forced to abdicate by the New Party under Martin de Lonneux in 1786 , the mayor of Wylre was forced to hold a council meeting in which a new mayor was elected. Then he retired first to Burtscheid and then to Kornelimünster , revoked all the official acts he had performed under duress and issued counter-edicts to those of the new city government. After the New Party was driven out of the town hall, von Wylre was reinstated as mayor in 1787. In 1788 he was elected mayor again, while Franz Carl Nellessen was elected mayor.

Johann Jakob von Wylre died in early April 1793 in Wylre's house on Jakobstrasse in Aachen and was buried from there on April 10th.

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 p. 480 ff . ( S, 480/481 and p. 482 online on rootsweb ).