Nikolaus Fiebus

Nikolaus Fiebus (Macco spelling: Feibus ; * March 13, 1622 in Aachen ; † June 1672 ibid) was a German politician and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen .

Live and act

Nikolaus Fiebus came from a Catholic patrician family and was a brother or cousin of the multiple Aachen mayor Balthasar Fiebus the Elder . Although he was a copper master by birth, he joined local politics as councilor around 1648 and was appointed Meier von Burtscheid from 1665 to 1678 . He later held the offices of foreman and wine master in the city council and was appointed imperial administrator. Finally, he was elected mayor from among the ranks of the guilds in 1667/68, 1669/70 and 1671/72, in the first two election periods together with the mayor of lay judges Johann Bertram von Wylre . In his third term of office he had to rule alone, since between 1671 and 1673 the lay judges had not proposed a candidate from their ranks in protest against the city of Aachen, because their candidate for 1670 had not been recognized by the council.

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, Nikolaus Fiebus and his brother-in-law Gerlach Maw as well as his son Balthasar Fiebus the Younger and Gerlach's son Mathias Maw took turns in the office of mayor every year for years. The same arrangements were made for the cast of Meier von Burtscheid.

Nikolaus Fiebus was married in his first marriage to a lady who has not been handed down and in his second marriage he married Agathe Rickers from Hambach , who bore him six children, including the above-mentioned son Balthasar. After the death of his second wife, Fiebus married Elisabeth Schleipen, with whom he had two more children. In 1660, Fiebus and his brother-in-law Gerlach Maw acquired the property of the burned-down scale and a neighboring property at the Aachen chicken market, but sold them to the pharmacist Adam Coebergh († 1694) in 1662. House Monheim was built on these two properties in the 18th century .

Nikolaus Fiebus is still remembered today by a name engraving in the chimney surround in the foremen's kitchen in the Aachen town hall .

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. 70 ( aachener-geschichtsverein.de [PDF; 1.7 MB ]).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reinhard Mäurer: Life in Aquisgranum , Mayer & Mayer, Aachen 2014, p. 126