Barthold Moller (Mayor)

Barthold Moller (woodcut from 1780 by Johann Christian Trompheller)

Barthold Moller (born November 19, 1605 in Hamburg ; † April 7, 1667 there ) was a German lawyer , councilor and mayor of Hamburg.

Origin and family

Moller came from the Hamburg Hanseatic family Moller vom Baum . To distinguish it from other families of the same name, this family named itself after the pod tree in their arms of the tree .

Moller's parents were the Hamburger Ratssyndicus Vincent Moller (1568-1625) and Elisabeth Beckmann (1586-1657), daughter of the mayor Barthold Beckmann (1549-1622).

On April 25, 1630 he married Barbara Elisabeth von Eitzen (1612–1669), daughter of the mayor Albert von Eitzen (1578–1653). However, the marriage remained childless. Therefore he adopted his nephew Johann Christoph Meurer (1646–1667), son of the council syndicate of the same name Johann Christoph Meurer (1598–1652) from his second marriage to Moller's sister Margaretha Moller (1612–1646). His adopted son died before him at the age of 21 as a student in Strasbourg .

Live and act

After studying at the Johanneum Scholars' School and at the Academic Gymnasium , Moller studied law at the University of Leiden from 1627 . On February 14, 1629, he completed his studies as a licentiate in both secular and canon law at the University of Basel .

After completing his studies, Moller traveled through Germany, France, England and the Netherlands and finally returned to Hamburg. Here he settled as a lawyer . But already on February 21, 1630 he was elected council secretary. As such, he traveled as envoy to France in 1630 and to The Hague and London in 1633 because of the Stahlhof .

On February 21, 1635 he was elected councilor. As councilor he made trips to the imperial court in Vienna , to the Reichstag in Regensburg and as Hanseatic envoy to the prince-elector of Mainz and the prince-elector of Cologne .

In 1629 Denmark had introduced an Elbe tariff at Glückstadt . In 1630 there was a sea battle between Hamburg and Denmark because of this matter. In 1640 Moller traveled to Glückstadt to see King Christian IV , in 1641 with his brother-in-law Meurer to Nyköping and in April 1643 to The Hague, where the disputes in this matter could be put aside. In the peace of Brömsebro between Sweden and Denmark this duty was then completely abolished and in 1648 it was confirmed again in the Peace of Westphalia .

After his return from The Hague, Moller was elected mayor as the successor to Hieronymus Vögeler (1565–1642). On April 26, 1649 he laid the foundation stone for the Michaeliskirche . On the medal for the laying of the foundation stone, Moller was depicted on one side and the new church on the other. After the death of his father-in-law, he became the oldest mayor in 1653. Moller died of dropsy on April 7, 1667 at the age of 61 and was buried on April 14, 1667. Johann Schrötteringk (1588–1676) was elected to his successor on April 15, 1667 .

Moller-Florilegium

The Hamburg flower painter Hans Simon Holtzbecker drew the Moller Florilegium from 1660 . The Florilegium, which consists of five volumes, shows pictures of flowers and fruits from Mayor Moller's baroque garden . Three of these volumes have been preserved. Two volumes are in the Hamburg State and University Library . A third volume is in the Oak Spring Garden Library in Upperville, Virginia in the United States of America .

Works (selection)

• Disputatio inauguralis de fide jussoribus . Basel 1629.

literature

• Joachim Henning: EΠIΘAΦI ΟΣ Magnif. Nobiliss. Amplissmoque D. Bartholdo Mollero, JUL et Civitatis Hamb. Cos. Primo . Hamburg 1667 ( hamburgerpersoenlichkeit.de [PDF]).
• Michael Kirsten: Immortal fame, about the blissful farewell of the Weiland wool noblemen, high wise men and highly learned gentlemen Hn. Barthold Müller, Weit-famous JCti. u. highly deserved mayor and senior citizen of the city of Hamburg. Georgius Nicolai, Der Divine Doctrine, Good Arts and Languages, testified to which, on command of his superiors, translated from Latin into German, and at the same time his sympathy with it . Wetstein, Lübeck 1667.
• Friedrich Georg Buek : Barthold Moller, JUL In: Genealogical and biographical notes on the mayors of Hamburg who have died since the Reformation . Johann August Meißner, Hamburg 1840, p. 86-89 ( books.google.de ).
• Ulrich Philipp Moller : The Moller family in Hamburg . Fabricius, Hamburg 1856, p. 37-47 ( books.google.de ).
• Hans Schröder : Moller (Barthold II.) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 5 , no. 2646 . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1870 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library ).
• Eduard Lorenz Lorenz-Meyer u. Oscar Louis Tesdorpf : Hamburg coats of arms and genealogies . Hamburg 1890, p. 269 ( digitized on the website of the Hamburg State and University Library).
• Bernhard Koerner (Ed.): Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families (=  Hamburg gender book . Volume 1 ). tape 18 . CA Starke, Görlitz 1910, p. 303 ( archive.org ).

Web links

• Publications by and about Barthold Moller in VD 17 .
• Barthold Moller on Hamburg personalities
• Matthias Schmoock, Hamburg's finest plant book: discovered in a patrician villa; the State and University Library has now acquired the second volume of the famous "Moller-Florilegium" from a Hamburg family, in Hamburger Abendblatt Hamburg Vol. 54, No. 197 of August 24, 2001, p. 11

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Georg Buek : Albert von Eitzen, JUL In: Genealogical and biographical notes on the mayors of Hamburg who have died since the Reformation . Johann August Meißner, Hamburg 1840, p. 74–79 ( digitized from Google Books).
2. ^ Hans Schröder : von Eitzen (Albert) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 2 , no. 896 . Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1854 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library).
3. ^ Friedrich Georg Buek : Hieronymus Vögeler, JC In: Genealogical and biographical notes on the mayors of Hamburg who have died since the Reformation . Johann August Meißner, Hamburg 1840, p. 65–68 ( digitized from Google Books).
4. ↑ Hans Simon Holtzbecker : The Moller Florilegium . tape 1 . Hamburg ( digitized on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library - around 1660).
5. ↑ Hans Simon Holtzbecker : The Moller Florilegium . tape 2 . Hamburg ( digitized on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library - around 1660).
6. ↑ Dietrich Roth (ed.): The flower books of Hans Simon Holtzbecker and Hamburg's pleasure gardens . Goecke & Evers, Keltern-Weiler 2003, ISBN 3-931374-38-6 .
7. ↑ Dietrich Roth (ed.): The Moller Florilegium . Hirmer, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7774-3425-4 .
8. ↑ The Moller Florilegium on the Christie's auction house website . Status: March 17, 1999, accessed on October 26, 2014 (English)
9. ↑ Hamburg's most precious flower book: The Moller-Florilegium in the blog of the Hamburg State and University Library. Status: June 22, 2007, accessed October 26, 2014