Jacob Clausen Möller

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Jacob Clausen Möller (born October 12, 1876 in Hadersleben , North Schleswig ; † January 30, 1955 in Flensburg , Schleswig-Holstein ) was a Danish politician . He was from 1945 to 1950, the first mayor of Flensburg in the post-war period and 1950/1951 whose first mayor .

Career

Clausen Möller completed a commercial apprenticeship in Hadersleben, his birth town in Prussia , worked in Flensburg, Rendsburg , Schleswig and Schwerin and founded a shop in Flensburg in 1901 together with the local businessman Niels Mikkelsen Uldall. In 1902 he founded his own textile company Möller & Co. and took part in a wholesale company in Sonderborg . From 1924 to 1933 he was a city councilor and parliamentary group leader of the Südschleswigschen Verein in the city ​​council of Flensburg, where in 1931 he initiated the construction of the first bus station in Germany (now the Central Bus Station in Flensburg ). From 1934 to 1945 he was a councilor there .

On 15./16. In May 1945, the British military government appointed him the new Lord Mayor of Flensburg as a representative of the Danish minority , a decision that even drew the attention of the New York Times . The council unanimously confirmed him in his office by an OB election on October 22, 1946 and elected him two years later, on November 5, 1948, with just 21 of 40 votes again as mayor. On April 27, 1950, Clausen Möller was unanimously elected as the first mayor of Flensburg after a reform of the community system; an office that he only held alternatively from 1951 to 1955.

Chairmanship and honors

  • Chairman of the Citizens' Association (1920–1955)
  • Chairman of an automobile club
  • Honorary brother of the St. Knudsgilde
  • Honorary journeyman of the masons' guild
  • Honoring the city of Flensburg by naming Nordertorplatz in I.-C.-Möller Platz ( location )

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Bernd Philipsen: Jacob Clausen Möller: First Lord Mayor after 1945. In: Flensburger Tageblatt . October 21, 2009. Retrieved July 26, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Dieter Pust : Kings, mayors and presidents in Flensburg . Biographical sketches. Ed .: Society for Flensburg City History (=  small series . Issue 15). 1st edition. Flensburg 1987, ISBN 3-925856-04-8 , Lord Mayor Jacob Clausen Möller (1945–1950), p. 230-232 .
personal data
SURNAME Clausen Möller, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Hadersleben
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1955
Place of death Flensburg