Gustav von Möller (lawyer)

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Gustav von Möller (born March 27, 1770 in Greifswald as Gustav Möller ; † January 21, 1847 ibid) was a German lawyer and court president.

Life

Gustav Möller was the son of Johann Georg Peter Möller and Juliane Brigitte von Boltenstern († 1786). He got his first name after his godfather, the Swedish Crown Prince Gustav III. He attended the Greifswald town school and studied from 1788 at the University of Greifswald law . In 1790 he moved to the University of Göttingen , where Johann Stephan Pütter , Johann Peter Waldeck and Justus Friedrich Runde were among his teachers.

In 1792 he returned to Greifswald, where he was admitted as a lawyer to the royal court in the same year and in 1794 to the Wismar tribunal . For his work as secretary of the visitation commission, which had been ordered in 1798 to control the court court and the Greifswald consistory , he was honored in 1799 with the title of councilor. In the same year he became a trainee lawyer at the court. In 1802 the office of "consiliarius fisci" was added. In 1806 he was appointed assessor at the court.

In 1813 he became director of the court. The Swedish King Charles XIII. raised him to the nobility in 1814. From 1815 he was a member of the commission for preparing the introduction of the Prussian legal system in New Western Pomerania . He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Greifswald in 1817 . In 1820 he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle 3rd Class and in 1833 the associated ribbon. In 1832 he was appointed president of the court. On the occasion of his 50th anniversary in office, in 1844 he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd Class with Oak Leaves, and the Swedish Order of the North Star . Gustav von Möller has been a member of the Greifswald Freemasons' lodge from 1789 to the three griffins and was most recently master of the chair .

Gustav Möller married Carolina von Vahl (1781–1858) in 1800. The two had two daughters and their son Gottfried Gustav von Möller (1803–1868), who was the president of the appellate court in Breslau .

literature

Dataset on and literature about Gustav von Möller (lawyer) in the state bibliography MV - No hit, February 10, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Möller, Gustav von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Möller, Gustav (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and court president
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1847
Place of death Greifswald