Eduard von Moeller

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Eduard von Moeller

Eduard von Moeller (also Möller ) (born June 3, 1814 in Minden , † November 2, 1880 in Kassel ) was a Prussian politician and civil servant. He was district president in Cologne and Kassel as well as senior president of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau and the later realm of Alsace-Lorraine .

origin

He comes from a family of doctors, his grandfather Johann Heinrich Moeller (1723–1789) was a doctor in Bielefeld and Lippischer Hofmedikus in Detmold.

His parents were Friedrich Wilhelm Moeller (1758–1842, from 1805 from Moeller , Prussian nobility) and his Friederike Woermann (1775–1857), only daughter and heir of the wholesale merchant and owner of the linen business Woermann & Co. in Bielefeld Christian Arnold Woermann (1736 –1800) and the Francisca Lucia von Laer . His father was a government medical advisor in Minden as well as a schaumburg-lippischer Hofrat, personal physician and owner of the domain Schluesselburg / Weser . His brother Friedrich Wilhelm von Moeller (1801–1865) was a co-founder and well doctor of Bad Oeynhausen . His sister Elisabeth was married to the Prussian President in Saxony and Silesia, Wilhelm Felix Heinrich Magnus von Wedell (1801–1866).

Life

After high school in Minden and Bielefeld, he began to study law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in 1832 . In 1832 he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg . In the following year, the Prussian students in southern Germany were called back by the government. He continued his studies first privately and then at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin continued and doctorate to Dr. iur.

In 1835 he began his career in the Prussian civil service as an auscultator at the court in Minden , in 1837 he moved to Paderborn as a trainee lawyer and then to the Oberpräsidium of the Rhine Province in Koblenz . In 1840 he became district administrator of the Simmern district in the Hunsrück .

After he had worked on the municipal regulations for the Rhine Province in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, he was appointed State Commissioner of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company in 1844. In accordance with the Prussian Railway Act , he thus acted as the sole state contact for this private railway. As a result he took over this position for all Prussian private railways in the western provinces. In 1848 he became regional president in the Cologne administrative district and also represented the upper president of the Rhine province . During this time he met the future King and Emperor Wilhelm I know. In 1849 he was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives.

When the Electorate of Hesse was annexed by Prussia after the German War in 1866, Wilhelm I appointed him there as administrator. In 1867 he was made senior president in the newly created province of Hessen-Nassau and at the same time regional president in the Wiesbaden district . campaigned for an expansion of the Hessian railway network and for the opening of the electoral art collections to the general public.

After the Franco-Prussian War , von Moeller became Chief President of the annexed Alsace-Lorraine in 1871 . He reorganized the administration according to the Prussian model and prepared the conversion to the Reichsland. The law and philosophy faculties of the University of Strasbourg , which opened in 1872, awarded him honorary doctorates.

Grave of Eduard von Moeller in the main cemetery in Kassel

In 1879 von Moeller resigned from civil service. Until his death he lived in Kassel, which had made him an honorary citizen for his services to the city .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 112 , 364
  2. http://www.territorial.de/person/m/personmo.htm
  3. Joachim Lilla: Eduard von Moeller, provisional high president of the Rhine province, high president of the province of Hessen-Nassau, high president of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine (1814-1880) . Retrieved on May 24, 2019.

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