Mathias Maw

Mathias von Maw (born November 9, 1642 in Aachen , † 1709 in the same place) was a German local politician and multiple mayor of the imperial city of Aachen .

Live and act

The son of the former Mayor of Aachen Gerlach Maw and Anna Fiebus († 1676) was prepared by his father to follow him in local politics in the city of Aachen. First, Mathias Maw was appointed captain of the "Marschiertorgrafschaft" (former district around the Marschiertor ) and from 1678 to 1681 he was given the office of Meiers von Burtscheid , which his father had already held for twenty years. In 1684 Maw was delegated as the city's envoy to a meeting at the Wieder Kaiserhof. During this period he must have received the title of nobility, since the sources refer to him from then on as "von Maw". Back in Aachen, he joined the Sacrament Society of St. Foillanwhose members consisted of the nobility and higher bourgeoisie and whose Greve he was elected in 1694, 1698 and 1706.

It was the heyday of the Aachener Mäkelei , during which the Aachen city council showed excesses of corruption and post-collusion. Gerlach Maw had already endeavored to alternate with his brother-in-law Nikolaus Fiebus as mayor several times and to install his son Matthias and his nephew Balthasar Fiebus, the younger, as successors by arrangement. So it finally happened that Mathias Maw was elected mayor from the ranks of the guilds in 1696/97, 1698/99, 1700/01, 1702/03, 1704/05, 1706/07 and 1708/09 . He ruled alone in the years 1700/01, 1702/34 and 1704/05 without a lay mayor, as the lay judge's chair did not nominate a candidate due to a dispute between the lay judge and the council. In the other years he stood by the mayors of the lay judges, Tilman Schroeder and Werner von Broich .

Mathias Maw was unmarried and lived in his father's villa on the "Mawengraben", which was previously called Foggengraben / Fockengraben (Froschgraben) and was named after his family and was later renamed Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz. In addition, he owned several shares in the so-called "Buitenhof", a farm yard belonging to the Soers house .

literature

• Hermann Friedrich Macco : Aachen coat of arms and genealogies . tape 1 , 1907, p. 285 ( PDF ).
• 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 ]).