Johann Möller (Mayor)

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Johann Möller (born January 1, 1623 in Greifenberg , Western Pomerania ; † May 6, 1680 ibid) was a German poet, lawyer and mayor of Greifenberg in Pomerania .

Life

Johann Möller was the son of the blacksmith Michael Möller from Gollnow and his wife Anna Vicke. After the death of both parents in 1633, his father's brother, the Greifenberg mayor Matthias Möller (I.), took care of the boy. After attending the Latin school in Greifenberg, he attended the school in Kolberg from 1637 . Council chamberlain Michael Beggerow made it possible for him to attend school in Stolp as of the following year , where he gave private lessons to Councilor Tessen's children for the next five years . From 1643 he studied law at the University of Königsberg . After a year he could no longer afford to study, instead at the age of 21 he accepted the rectorate of the city school in Greifenberg, which he held until 1650.

He then turned to legal practice and was registered as an attorney at the court in Stettin in 1651. In the same year he was elected councilor in Greifenberg. On October 1, 1657, he was elected treasurer and mayor of Greifenberg. Greifenberg was one of the leading cities in the Lower Pomeranian state parliaments, in which he participated as the municipal district administrator. He was also an assessor at the court. The aristocratic families von der Osten and von Blücher auf Plathe and von Borcke auf Regenwalde appointed him as a court rot . In 1669 he was in lien on the Pribbernow estate.

Since 1652 he was married to Maria Salzsieder, a daughter of the Greifenberg mayor Matthias Salzsieder. Her son Matthias Möller (II.) Was also mayor of Greifenberg.

The Singing Society

"The Gottsingende Gesellschaft" was a choral society that had its seat in Greifenberg in the 17th century. The members belonged to the city council and noble families from the area. The society, whose year of foundation is unknown, initially sang both secular and spiritual songs. After a city fire in Greifenberg in 1658, they limited themselves to sacred songs. Johann Möller wrote most of the texts in the collection of songs, which were printed in four parts by Daniel Starke in Stettin between 1673 and 1675 under the title “Greifenbergische Psalter- und Harfenlust gegen allerley Unlust”. The pastor Theodor Hoppe from Rensekow composed the melodies for polyphonic singing and instrumental accompaniment. The choral society probably dissolved soon after Möller's death in 1680.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (Ed.): Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon. Volume 2: D-L. Gleditsch, Leipzig 1750, Sp. 573 .
personal data
SURNAME Möller, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, lawyer and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1623
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifenberg , Western Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1680
Place of death Greifenberg , Western Pomerania