Diedrich Moller

Diedrich Moller (born August 17, 1622 in Hamburg ; † October 25, 1687 ibid) was a German lawyer , councilor and mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City 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 Hamburg council syndicate Vincentius Moller († 1631) and Gertrude von Eitzen, daughter of the mayor Diedrich von Eitzen († 1598).

On April 21, 1651 Moller married Anna Jarre (1633–1719), daughter of the mayor Nicolaus Jarre (1603–1678). The senior elder at Sankt Nikolai Vincent Moller (1656–1737) was his son.

Live and act

Born in Hamburg, Moller studied law at various universities after completing his schooling and graduated with a degree in both rights. After completing his studies, he traveled to Germany, Hungary, Italy, France, England and Holland and then returned to Hamburg.

In Hamburg, Moller was elected councilor in 1653. In the following year he was sent together with councilor David Penshorn (1610–1660) as envoy to King Louis XIV in Paris . Here he negotiated the protection of merchant ships on the route to and from France in the Anglo-Dutch War that broke out in 1652 , as well as the defense of merchant ships against pirates in the Mediterranean by French ships. After these negotiations, Moller signed a trade agreement with France on behalf of the Hanseatic cities .

In 1657 Moller traveled to Sweden as an envoy. In 1658 he was appointed praetor . From 1660 to 1665 Moller was a member of the deputation of the Admiralty and in 1683 and 1685 President of the Admiralty College. In 1661 he was elected bank master . From 1662 to 1680 Moller was the chief of the vigilante group in the parish of Sankt Jacobi as colonel lord .

During the bricklayers' uprising in Hamburg in 1667, Moller, as the building yard owner at the time, was threatened by three bricklayers on the street. Two of these masons were then expelled from the city, the other received a significant sentence.

In 1668 Moller traveled with Council Syndicate Vincent Garmers (1623–1687) and Councilor Jacob Sillem (1620–1693) as envoy to the Danish King Friedrich III. to Glückstadt and negotiates about the regulation of the Elbe tariffs and the tariffs in the Baltic Sea. Moller also went to the Kurbrandenburg court on the same matter .

On January 27, 1680, Moller was elected mayor as the successor to Broderus Pauli (1598–1680), who died on January 11, 1680 . As such, he was in 1680 patron of the St. Catherine's Church, Hamburg and prisons, and in 1684, patron of the Johannis monastery and Job's Hospital . As mayor, Moller was also the proto-holarch of the Hamburg schools.

Until 1682 he was the patron saint of the family vicarie . Moller was also the administrator of the Berend and Catharina Münden Foundation and the Jarre Foundation.

Moller died on October 25, 1687 at the age of 65 and was buried on November 11, 1687 in the main church of Saint Catherine . A mayor's penny was minted on his death .

literature

• Johann Friedrich Mayer : QBV Ad audiendam Orationem solennem quam Lectionibus Publicis praemittet & cui Magnifici Summorumque in Illustrem hanc Rempublicam meritorum Consulis Domini Dieterici Mölleri, JCti excellentissimi Memoria pretium faciet Omnes qui tanti Viri beatos amant manes de Rom hocae pari piet Quam carus civitati fuerit moerore & concursu publico . Georg Rebenlein's widow, Hamburg November 15, 1687 ( PDF on Hamburg personalities).
• Nicolaus Wilckens : Theodor Möller, IUL In: Christian Ziegra (Hrsg.): Nicolaus Wilckens Hamburgischer Ehrentempel, in which a lot of credible and as much as possible complete descriptions of lives of learned and deserving men, some of whom were born outside of Hamburg, and there in have served the city's spiritual and secular class, or have remained in a private life, or have been promoted abroad . Christian Simon Schröder, Hamburg 1770, p. 16 ( digitized from Google Books).
• Friedrich Georg Buek : Diedrich Moller, JUL In: Genealogical and biographical notes on the mayors of Hamburg who have died since the Reformation . Johann August Meißner, Hamburg 1840, p. 122–125 ( digitized from Google Books).
• Eduard Lorenz Lorenz-Meyer u. Oscar Louis Tesdorpf : Hamburg coats of arms and genealogies . Hamburg 1890, p. 270 ( digitized on the website of the Hamburg State and University Library ).
• Bernhard Koerner (Ed.): Genealogical handbook of middle-class families . tape 18 . CA Starke, Görlitz 1910, p. 308–310 ( digitized in the Internet Archive - also Hamburg Gender Book. Volume 1.).

Web links

• Diedrich Moller on Hamburg personalities

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Georg Buek : Vincent Moller . In: The Hamburg Oberalts, their civil effectiveness and their families . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1857, p. 200–203 ( digitized from Google Books).
2. ↑ Hans Schröder : Penshorn (David II.) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 6 , no. 2967 . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1873 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library ). Facsimile] on the website of the [[Hamburg State and University Library] ( memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Wolffgang Henrich Adelungk : The whole highly praiseworthy colonel creation of the world-famous An-See-Kauff and trade city of Hamburg, existing in which Hn. Colonels as colonels, Hn. Colonell citizens as colonel-lieutenants, and all gentlemen captains, like those of 1619, bit each other succeded in this 1696 year, the posterity of the odd Andean corners recorded and properly drafted . Conrad Neumann, Hamburg 1696, p. 4 ( digitized version on the website of the Hamburg State and University Library ).
4. ^ Hans Schröder : Garmers (Vincent 1.) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 2 , no. 1163 . Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1854 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library ). Facsimile] on the website of the [[Hamburg State and University Library] ( memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Heinrich Reincke:  Garmers, Vincent. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 72 f. ( Digitized version ).
6. ^ Friedrich Georg Buek : Broderus Pauli, JUD In: Genealogical and biographical notes on the mayors of Hamburg who have died since the Reformation . Johann August Meißner, Hamburg 1840, p. 111–117 ( digitized from Google Books).
7. ^ Hans Schröder : Pauli (Broderus) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 5 , no. 2942 . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1870 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library ). Facsimile] on the website of the [[Hamburg State and University Library] ( memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Jonas Ludwig von Hess : Das Hiobs-Hospital . In: Hamburg described topographically, politically and historically . 2nd revised and enlarged edition. Second part. Brüggemann, Hamburg 1811, p. 172–197 ( digitized from Google Books).
9. ↑ Berend Münden and his wife Catharina . In: Johann Martin Lappenberg (ed.): The mild private foundations in Hamburg . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1845, p. 70–71 ( digitized on the pages of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek ).
10. ↑ Nicolaus Jarre, Place of God . In: Johann Martin Lappenberg (ed.): The mild private foundations in Hamburg . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1845, p. 47–48 ( digitized on the pages of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek ).