Peter Dahmen
Peter Dahmen (born December 8, 1647 in Aachen , † 1736 ibid) was a German court chamber councilor and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen .
Live and act
The son of John Daemen and Catherine Gillessen went through a civil service career in Aachen, at the end he became Palatine Hofkammerrat was promoted. In addition, he was involved in local politics and was appointed mayor of the city of Aachen in 1702 and, in 1718 and 1720, alongside the mayor of the aldermen Hermann Franz Braumann from the ranks of the guilds, he was elected mayor of the imperial city of Aachen.
It was Damen's lasting merit that in 1707 he bought a large part of the "Hirtz" and "Ferkensgrav" (deer and piglet ditch) along the Barbarossamauer wall not far from the Ursuline Gate from the city of Aachen and made it urban. He had several “modern” houses and larger town villas built both there and in the city center, including the sophisticated “Gasthaus zum Birnbaum” in Komphausbadstrasse, which he renamed “Kurpfälzischer Hof” and on which he attached the electoral coat of arms. At the beginning of the Prussian era, around a hundred years later, this hostel was mentioned as an “excellent inn” in the “Bavarian National Newspaper”, along with the Great Monarch, the Hotel Dubigk and others.
Peter Dahmen was married to Anna Maria Lersch (* 1655), daughter of the copper merchant Mathias Wilhelm Lersch and Agnes von Thenen; the couple had five children. The part of the Hirschgraben that he had acquired and built on was posthumously renamed Dahmengraben. His later descendants included the businessman and mayor Carl Eduard Dahmen .
literature
Hermann Friedrich Macco : Aachen coat of arms and genealogies . Volume 1, Aachen 1907, ( page 96 )
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dahmen, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German court chamber councilor and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1647 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1736 |
| Place of death | Aachen |