Heinrich Mölling

Heinrich Johannes Georg Mölling (born August 27, 1825 in Lensahn , Duchy of Holstein , † April 10, 1888 in Neumünster ) was a German politician and the first Lord Mayor of Kiel .

education

Heinrich Mölling was the son of the grand-ducal-Oldenburg politician Georg Friedrich Mölling (1796–1878) and his wife Dorothea Christine Elisabeth Mölling, nee. Bode (1799-1832). From 1845 he studied law at the universities of Heidelberg and Bonn until he continued his studies in Kiel from 1847. After the outbreak of the Schleswig-Holstein War , he served as a volunteer in the second Schleswig-Holstein Jägerkorps in spring 1848. After a one-year study visit to Göttingen , Mölling completed his law studies at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel with the official examination in 1850 . During his studies in 1846 he became a member of the Old Bonn Burschenschaft / general public .

Professional career

After completing his studies, Mölling got his first job as a secretary in the Drostei Pinneberg , which he left in July 1850 to serve again with his unit in the war. In 1854 he got the position of a clerk in the Ministry of the Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg in Copenhagen . Just one year later, he managed to rise to the position of head of the office for municipal affairs and was responsible for trade and commerce, among other things. Since March 1857 he was also employed in the temporary administration of the mayor's office of the city of Segeberg . In the spring of 1859 Mölling made another career move and became a member of the municipal authorities in Altona (today Hamburg-Altona ). From 1864 he was entrusted with the office of railway commissioner for Holstein in Altona. After the end of the German War , Heinrich Mölling was appointed mayor of Kiel by the Prussian government in January 1867. Due to a new municipality order, all members of the magistrate were elected by the people from April 1869. In the course of this, Mölling made himself available for the office of mayor, for which he was elected for 12 years in 1870. Mölling was re-elected in 1882, but died before the end of his term during a business trip to Neumünster. He was buried in a grave of honor in the south cemetery of the city of Kiel.

Act as mayor

During Heinrich Mölling's tenure, the population of Kiel tripled, which was not least achieved through the incorporation of Brunswik . A particular concern of Mölling was the port expansion, which included building a new quay and a railway connection to the North German shipbuilding company in Gaarden. Furthermore, thanks to Heinrich Mölling's efforts, the imperial shipyard in Ellerbek could be built, which was associated with the emergence of an industrial landscape on the east bank of the fjord, which was until then rural . With all of these measures, Kiel managed to rise from a provincial port city to a large city with an imperial war port .

Honors

• 1868: Awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class
• 1875: Award of the title of Lord Mayor by Kaiser Wilhelm I.
• 1879: Appointment to the Prussian mansion for life
• 1881: Awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 3rd class
• 1889: A street in Kiel was named "Möllingstraße" in his honor

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 121-122.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Mölling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography of Heinrich Mölling on the website of the city of Kiel

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biography of Mölling, Georg Philipp Friedrich. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 472-473 ( online ).