Friedwald Moeller

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Friedwald Moeller (born November 21, 1894 in Kiel , † March 20, 1964 in Wiesbaden ) was a German officer. He became known as a church historian and genealogist of East Prussia.

Life

Moeller came from an old East Prussian family. He was born in Kiel because his father Louis Moeller was a city councilor there. Before that he was mayor of Elbing from 1888 to 1891.

Shortly after the beginning of the First World War , Moeller joined the 2nd Litthau Field Artillery Regiment No. 37 of the Prussian Army in Insterburg on August 9, 1914 as a flagjunker . He was transferred to the air force as an observer in 1915 and was most recently with the Eastern Border Guard . In March 1920 he resigned from the Reichswehr as a first lieutenant . In 1923 he acquired the Finkenhof estate in the East Prussian district of Friedland . From 1930 Moeller was managing director of the Agricultural Association of East Prussia in Wehlau. Reactivated to the Wehrmacht in 1934 , he was taken prisoner by the Americans in 1945 at the end of the Second World War as a colonel on the staff of an air district command in Wiesbaden. After his release he became involved in the Association of German Soldiers and the Kyffhäuserbund . For health reasons, he had to resign from these tasks.

Interested in the origins of his family, Moeller began archival studies in the 1920s. He was able to trace the Moellers back to 1490 and had an extensive family history printed in 1932. From church records , archives, and printed and unprinted sources, he compiled an extensive collection of notes on numerous people and families in Old Prussia. Unlike many other family researchers, he was able to save this collection through the war and expand it after the war despite his severe suffering. His estate of 150,000 entries on index cards and 56 volumes of genealogical material is in the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage . In addition to Hans Wolfgang Quassowski's card index , it is the most extensive collection on East and West Prussian family and personal research. In addition, publications emerged from the Moeller estate , in two parts 1985 and 1986 over 1000 pages of personal extracts from the Königsberg official gazettes. He was particularly interested in the pastors. There were only two older works by Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt (1777) and Ludwig Rhesa (1834), as well as a manuscript by Johann Jakob Quandt from the 18th century , which have now become rare about their official dates and biographies . Their research was stimulated by the Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia, which was founded in 1925 . From 1927 finds on the pastor's history were published. In 1941 the project of a “preacher's book” was tackled by Kurt Weder based on the then abundant material . Neither died himself in 1943. The collected material was lost in Wehlau in 1945 . Moeller resumed work and dedicated the last decade of his life to it. The Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book was published from his estate in 1968 , a list of the vacancies in East and West Prussia from the Reformation to 1945. He also left over 11,000 biographies of East Prussian pastors. With a few additions and revisions, only a first delivery (Abegg – Brenner) has been printed, after Moeller's successor in this project, Walther Müller-Dultz , died over the work. Reinhold Heling in Hamburg, chairman of the Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia , then dealt with the processing of the pastors' biographies compiled by Moeller . The Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin keeps the “intermediate manuscript” for the Old Prussian Evangelical Pastor's Book, Vol. 2: Daase – Gyzicki .

Moeller was married to Olga Sass, daughter of Vice Admiral Heinrich Sass (1859–1941), since 1924 . The marriage resulted in two daughters.

Works

  • Contributions to the genealogy of the Moeller family. Wehlau 1932.
  • Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968.

literature

  • Walther Müller-Dultz: Friedwald Moeller. in: Old Prussian biography . Volume 3, p. 1024.
  • Walther Müller-Dultz: Friedwald Moeller in memory. Old Prussian Gender Studies NF 12th year (1964), p. 21 f.
  • Walter Moeller: Friedrich [sic!] Moeller +. Archive for Family Research 30 (1964), p. 423 f.
  • Friedwald Moeller, Walter Moeller: Contributions… in: Baltische Ahnen- und Stammtafeln 9. (1965), pp. 1–8.
  • Friedwald Moeller, Walter Moeller: Contributions… in: Old Prussian gender studies. Familienarchiv 21 (1967), pp. 155-200.
  • Hans Koeppen : The Moeller estate in the Göttingen State Archive Camp. Prussia 4. (1966), pp. 33-37.
  • Thomas Hanck: The Moeller estate. Old Prussian Gender Studies NF 37th year (1989).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d culture portal west-east
  2. ↑ Walther Müller-Dultz: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 - biographical part. First delivery, Hamburg 1977.
  3. ↑ Reinhold Heling: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 - a description of the project. In: Altpr. Gender studies. NF 26th year 1978, pp. 285-292.
  4. ^ GenWiki
personal data
SURNAME Moeller, Friedwald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, church historian and genealogist of East Prussia
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1964
Place of death Wiesbaden