Georg Friedrich Mölling

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Georg Philipp Friedrich Mölling (born February 21, 1796 in Bücken , Grafschaft Hoya ; † January 21, 1878 in Bremen ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Life

Early career

Mölling came from a family of presumably Huguenot origin, which was based in the Frankfurt area. At the end of the 17th century she moved to Northern Germany. His parents were Heinrich Philipp Friedrich Mölling, who worked as a lawyer in Hoya and his wife Sophia Margarethe nee. Steding. Mölling attended the grammar school in Lemgo from 1811 and then studied law at the Georg August University of Göttingen from 1814 to 1817 and became a member of the Corps Bremensia in 1815 . In 1818 he entered the state service of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and became an official auditor in Wildeshausen , in 1819 Regional Court Secretary in Neuchâtel (Friesland) , 1820 Regional Court Assessor in Oevelgönne , in 1824 legal advisor at the Herzoglichhagen Oldenburg property administration for the Fideikomißgüter in Lensahn and the Allodialgut in Manahn . From 1826 he was also a provisional civil servant for the Kollegiatstift office and from 1830 interim mayor and municipal lawyer in Oldenburg in Holstein . In 1833 he became bailiff in Eutin , and in 1847 with the title of Hofrat as governor, chairman of the consistorial deputation in Jever . In 1858 he was put up for disposal because of his republican attitude.

Political activity

After the outbreak of the revolution of 1848 Mölling participated directly in the popular movement and quickly gained a leading role. With a small publication he intervened in the ongoing discussion on an Oldenburg constitution and was presumably therefore elected in March 1848 for the Jever office in the Assembly of 34 , which, as the constituent assembly, was supposed to deliberate on the draft constitution. In April 1848 he was elected to the Frankfurt National Assembly and, unlike the other Oldenburg MPs of the moderate political left in the Paulskirche parliament, joined the Nuremberg Court parliamentary group . Later he switched to the large German- democratic group Deutscher Hof . In June 1849 he was the only Oldenburg MP to take part in the meetings of the so-called rump parliament in Stuttgart , which consisted almost exclusively of members of the left. He was also a member of the Central March Association . In July 1849 he returned to Jever, where he was greeted enthusiastically and led through the streets in a triumphal procession. Mölling was immediately active again in state politics and was a member of the state parliament from 1849 to 1858 , in which he had considerable influence as one of the leaders of the left opposition . As a declared opponent of the Erfurt Union and especially of the alliance between Oldenburg and what he saw as reactionary Prussia , he called for a boycott of the elections for the Erfurt Union Parliament . Together with Dagobert Böckel he organized the protest meetings against the government's attempt to eliminate the opposition by changing the electoral law. Just as in Frankfurt, he now committed to the dual goal of a liberal constitution and a greater German unification of Germany. When the government failed in its attempt to discipline him politically with civil service measures, it finally used the Oldenburg judicial reform of 1858 to make Mölling - as before Böckel - available on August 9, 1858.

Further life

In the same year he emigrated to the United States and was temporarily a notary in Philadelphia . After founding the North German Confederation , he returned to Germany, but - contrary to his hopes - was no longer politically active.

family

Mölling was born on June 14, 1821 with Dorothea Christine Elisabeth. Bode (1799–1832) married. The marriage came from the son Heinrich Johannes Georg (1825–1888), from 1870 Lord Mayor of Kiel . Mölling spent a few years with him after his return and last lived in Bremen.

Publications

  • Attempt to systematically present the Holstein-German servant law and draft a servant order . Oldenburg. 1838.
  • Twelve motions concerning the constitution. Jever. 1848.
  • Accountability report of the member of the German National Assembly Moelling in Jever on his work in the National Assembly, submitted to his voters on July 15, 1849. Jever. 1849.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 40 , 80

literature

personal data
SURNAME Mölling, Georg Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mölling, Georg Philipp Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Stoop , County Hoya
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1878
Place of death Bremen