Johann Ludwig Mosle

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Johann Ludwig Mosle, presumably as Major General in Oldenburg, 1863, lithograph by Friedrich Wilhelm Graupenstein

Johann Ludwig Mosle (born January 2, 1794 in Varel , † October 24, 1877 in Oldenburg ) was an Oldenburg officer , diplomat and minister.

origin

He was the son of the Thuringian lawyer and later Bentinck chancellery adviser Alexander Samuel Mosle (1762-1833) and his wife Dorothea Catharina, née Renndorff (1769-1849), whose parents were the Varel merchant Georg Rudolf Rendorff (1741-1816) and Sophie Louise Hemken (1746–1810). His grandparents were the French dragoon officer Jean Charles des Rosiers de Moncelet (1736–1767) and Catharina Elisabeth Köhler (1741; † after 1803). His brother Georg Rudolph (1796–1870) became a merchant in Bremen.

Life

Mosle grew up in Varel and attended high school in Oldenburg from 1808 to 1811 . He then studied law in Strasbourg. He was nationally and anti-French, and after the defeat of Napoleon I in Russia he secretly left the university to join the Prussian army in May 1813 in Silesia as a volunteer hunter .

He took part in the campaign against France , but was ordered back to Oldenburg in February 1814, as officers were needed for the infantry regiment to be newly established . At the father's request, however, he took a leave of absence in the same year in order to continue the aborted law degree. After Napoleon's return from Elba , he was called up again in April 1815, took part as a second lieutenant in the summer campaign of 1815 and finally decided to give up a legal and a military career. Due to the poor financial situation of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg , Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig was not interested in expanding the Oldenburg troop contingent in the armed forces, so that there was little prospect of a military career for Mosle. However, he was promoted by Colonel Wilhelm Gustav Friedrich Wardenburg , the commander of the Oldenburg troops. In 1817 Mosle became a prime lieutenant , soon taught at the military school and in 1828 became commander of the Gendarmerie ( Grand Ducal Oldenburg Land Dragon Corps ). Initially, however, Mosle was a regimental adjutant .

When Grand Duke Paul Friedrich August took office in 1829, new prospects arose for Mosle, as Paul, in contrast to his father, vigorously pushed ahead with the expansion of the Oldenburg troop contingent. In 1830 he was promoted to captain , combined with a position as adjutant to the Grand Duke and appointment to the head of the military chancellery. In 1832 he was also director of the military school. In 1839 Mosle was promoted to lieutenant colonel , combined with command of the 2nd Infantry Regiment. In 1843 he was promoted to colonel .
In addition to his official work, Mosle was privately active in literary circles. In 1836 he joined the Literary Society and was in close contact with the leading men of the literary and sociable society Adolf Stahr and Dietrich Christian von Buttel . He was considered a moderate liberal and campaigned for the temperance movement. Mosle was also very interested in increasing economic life in the Grand Duchy and was a proponent of the Hunte-Ems Canal , in order to connect rural Oldenburg to seafaring and to promote the cultivation of the moors through settlement. Since 1841 he advocated the expansion of Cologne Cathedral , which for him represented a symbol of German unity , for which he had already been enthusiastic as a student.

The Hunte-Ems Canal, known today as the coastal canal, separates South Moslesfehn (left) from North Moslesfehn (right)
Plaque on the grave in Oldenburg (Gertrudenfriedhof)

In April 1848, Mosle succeeded Hartwig Julius Ludwig von Both as the Oldenburg envoy in the Bundestag of the German Confederation in Frankfurt am Main , and later with the Provisional Central Authority . Here he campaigned emphatically for the expansion of the military constitution and the development of the imperial fleet and promoted the idea of ​​a war port in the Oldenburg town of Brake . Apparently Mosle turned down the office of Prime Minister of Oldenburg in July 1848 in the hope of possibly becoming Reich Minister of War in Frankfurt. Instead, he proposed the appointment of State Councilor Johann Heinrich Jakob Schloifer , which took place on August 1, 1848. Initially still a supporter of a Greater German solution including Austria , he returned after disappointing negotiations with the imperial government in Vienna, but apparently disaffected and from this point on he advocated the idea of ​​the Small German solution . In addition, sharp allegations were made against him, according to which he did not stand up for the sentenced deputy Robert Blum . Mosle now oriented himself to Prussian politics for the purpose of the so-called Epiphany Alliance between Prussia, Hanover and Saxony . Recalled from Frankfurt, he went to Berlin in July 1849 to conclude the treaty on Oldenburg's accession to this alliance. On July 28, 1849, he took over the management of the Department of Foreign Affairs in Oldenburg and tried to enforce his policy against the majority in the state parliament, which was made up of Greater German Catholics and Democrats who rejected an alliance with Prussia. After the resignation of Schloifer's March government in December 1849, Mosle was appointed envoy in Berlin and was also an Oldenburg representative in the Erfurt Union Parliament and an authorized representative on the Alliance's administrative council. The following Oldenburg government, Buttel, adopted a wait-and-see attitude against the resistance of the state parliament against the small German solution and the three kings alliance gradually fell apart, Mosle felt abandoned and submitted his resignation on March 28, 1850, which the Grand Duke refused. Mosle then returned to military service. On December 1, 1851, he took command of the Oldenburg Infantry Regiment and was retired on August 6, 1857 with the character of a major general . He kept command of the Landdragoner, renamed the Grand Ducal Oldenburg Gendarmerie Corps in 1867 , until January 1, 1870.

In retirement, Mosle was mainly active as a writer and wrote biographies about his two patrons, General Wardenburg and Grand Duke Paul, as well as parts of his memoirs. In 1859 he initiated the Schiller celebrations in Oldenburg for the 100th birthday of the poet. However, he soon fell ill and withdrew more and more into private life.

In addition to Wardenburg, Mosle is of great importance for Oldenburg's military history, as the expansion of the state troop contingent initiated by Grand Duke Paul, including the establishment of the Oldenburg-Hanseatic Brigade in 1834, was largely carried out by Mosle. According to his biographer Hans Friedl, he was an example of the new type of educated, middle-class officer as a result of the wars of liberation. In the broadest sense, he was to be seen politically as national-liberal, with broad educational interests and a penchant for “vanity and arrogance”, as Friedl notes.

family

In 1824 he married Friederike von Jaegersfeld (1802–1884), the daughter of the landowner Carl Friedrich von Jaegersfeld (1771–1847) and Octavia Bellina Grosse (1772–1815), the marriage remained childless.

Honors

In Oldenburg, Moslestrasse, which connects the city center with the station district, is named after Johann Ludwig Mosle. In addition, the Moorkolonie Nordmoslesfehn (city of Oldenburg), the Moordorf Südmoslesfehn (municipality of Wardenburg ) and the farmers Mosleshöhe (municipality of Edewecht ) bear the name of Mosle.

Works

  • Two speeches against the brandy by a member of the Oldenburg temperance club. Oldenburg. 1840. 2nd edition 1845.
  • Vehn colonies and the Hunte-Ems Canal. Read out on November 27, 1844 at the meeting of the Oldenburg Trade and Commerce Association by a member of the same. Oldenburg. 1845.
  • Military encyclopedia in 50 lectures, given to HRH the Hereditary Prince of Oldenburg in the winter of 1845/46. StAO .
  • Basic features of a military constitution according to the needs of the time. From an old German officer. Frankfurt a. M. 1848.
  • The Schiller celebration in the casino on November 9, 1859, organized by the literary and sociable association in Oldenburg. Oldenburg. 1859.
  • Oldenburg 50 years ago. A memorial for the jubilee year 1813. Oldenburg. 1863.
  • From the life of General Wardenburg. Oldenburg. 1863.
  • Paul Friedrich August. Grand Duke of Oldenburg. A biographical attempt. Oldenburg. 1865.
  • From the literary estate of Johann Ludwig Mosle. Edited by Otto Lasius . Oldenburg. No year (1879).

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predecessor Office successor
Hartwig Julius Ludwig von Both Oldenburg envoy to the German Confederation from
1848 to 1849 		-
personal data
SURNAME Mosle, Johann Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Oldenburg officer, diplomat and minister
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Varel
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1877
Place of death Oldenburg