Heinrich Adrian Müller

Heinrich Adrian Müller , from 1660 Müller von Morien (born August 31, 1636 in Lübeck ; † December 29, 1706 ibid) was a German landowner, imperial minister in the Lower Saxony Empire and imperial resident in Lübeck .

Live and act

Müller was the eldest son of the businessman Adrian Müller and his second wife Elisabeth, a daughter of the Lübeck mayor Heinrich Köhler . He grew up on the Lübeckische Gut Mori (now part of Stockelsdorf ) acquired by his father and was eight years old when his father died in 1644. His mother, who kept her husband's property all her life, ensured a good upbringing and sent him to Helmstedt University in 1656 . He then undertook extensive and at times adventurous journeys through Germany, Italy, France and England, staying longer in some places, especially Vienna and Paris . Probably in Vienna, he is the Roman Catholic Church converted . It was not until 1661 that he finally returned to Lübeck. Soon after, his mother died. Müller took over the management of the Mori estate and bought part of Groß Steinrade . With an imperial diploma, Heinrich Adrian and his younger brother Gottfried Andreas Müller were elevated to imperial nobility by Emperor Leopold I in 1661 as Müller von Morien .

In 1663 he married Magdalena Dorothea von Wickede, a daughter of the mayor Gottschalk von Wickede . The wedding was performed according to the Lutheran rite by the pastor of Rensefeld , where Mori was parish. The children were also baptized Lutheran, and because of the great distance of the property from the parish village of Rensefeld, Müller set up a Protestant school in Mori at Easter 1663 and built a chapel in which the teacher was supposed to preach on Sundays and public holidays. These institutions were confirmed by King Christian V in his capacity as owner of the sovereign church regiment. The chapel existed until the 19th century.

Müller was one of those members of the Lübeck upper class who owned land outside the Lübeck Landwehr and settled there (guild-free) trades, which aroused the wrath of the city's craft offices. In 1663 there were therefore riots against the so-called Bönhasen and their supporters, in the course of which Mori was also devastated. In the course of this unrest, which led to the cash process in 1665 , the landowners sued the bourgeois colleges and the council at the Imperial Court of Justice and in 1666, under the leadership of Gotthard von Höveln, submitted to the protection of the Danish King Friedrich III. as lord of Holstein .

In 1678, Emperor Leopold I. appointed Kerckring an imperial resident in his imperial city of Lübeck, an office that only Dietrich von Brömbsen (1613–1671) had held from 1654 to 1666 before him . This appointment gave Müller diplomatic immunity and helped him to stand up for the Catholics living in the city, for whose religious practice he obtained imperial decrees. In 1678 he had "the child of a papist soldier" baptized a Catholic in his house by a priest . This was the first Catholic baptism in the city outside of the cathedral district after the Reformation, which caused quite a stir.

Müller died in 1706 and was buried in the Aegidienkirche , probably in the Vorraden or Calven chapel, to the renovation of which he had contributed a third as lord of Mori in 1698. He did not bequeath Mori to his children, but to Anna Catharina, the daughter of Mayor Anton Köhler , a brother of his grandfather Heinrich Köhler . Through her the estate came to her husband Alexander Lüneburg († 1715).

The post of imperial resident in Lübeck was not filled again.

Fonts

• Kurtze Presentation of the Truth / Against an untrue, blown out writing / Genandt Lübeckische Richterliche Hauß Search , 1695

literature

• Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from earlier times , Dittmer, 1859, p. 63 ( digitized version )
• Everhard Illigens : History of the Lübeck Church from 1530 to 1896, that is the history of the former Catholic diocese and the current Catholic community as well as the Catholic bishops, canons and pastors of Lübeck from 1530 to 1896. Paderborn 1896
• Carl Friedrich Wehrmann : The Lübeck estates. In: ZVLGA 7, Heft 2 (1895), pp. 151-236.
• Carl Friedrich Wehrmann: Heinrich Adrian Müller. In: Lübeckische Blätter 37 (1895), pp. 309-314 (Part I); 317-319 (Part II); 322-325 (Part III).
• Klaus Müller : The imperial legation system in the century after the Peace of Westphalia (1648–1740). Bonn 1976

Individual evidence

1. ↑ date of death according to Wehrmann; after Illigens (Lit.) December 21, 1707
2. ↑ See the detailed travel report in Wehrmann (1895), part 1
3. ↑ Only the Junker Company and the Merchant Company , to which the plaintiffs were themselves, were excluded from the lawsuit .
4. ^ Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 743 with reference to Johann Rudolph Becker : Complicated history of the emperors. and salvation. Roman Empire freyen City of Lübeck , Volume 3, Lübeck 1805, p. 354 ff.
5. ^ To Brehmer at Koenigstrasse 97; But Müller also owned the house at Schildstrasse 10