Julius Otto Ludwig Möller

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Julius Otto Ludwig Möller (born June 7, 1819 in Königsberg ; † August 29, 1887 there ) was a German surgeon, professor of medicine and a member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Scientific career

Möller attended the Löbenicht secondary school and the old town high school , and from 1835 to 1839 the University of Königsberg . He later studied medicine in Halle , Berlin and Vienna and received his doctorate in 1840 . He traveled extensively and became a general practitioner in Königsberg in 1841. From 1859 to 1863 he was associate professor for practical medicine, director of the medical outpatient clinic and medical councilor in Königsberg.

The Möller-Barlow disease ( scurvy in infancy) is named after him and Thomas Barlow , which he described first, as well as Möller-Hunter glossitis .

Professional ban

During the Prussian constitutional conflict, Julius Möller stood up for the German Progressive Party and its positions. In 1863, this was interpreted as a subversive activity. Therefore, despite protests from his colleagues, he was dismissed from all offices by the Prussian minister of education. In detail he was reproached:

“In 1862, the Minister of Education gave him his disapproval because of his participation in the election committee of the German Progressive Party.

Shortly after the end of the last parliamentary session, on June 9th d. J. held a banquet in Koenigsberg in honor of the members of the constituency Koenigsberg-Fischhausen. Professor Möller took part in this banquet and, in the course of it, toasted the deputies and the Oberregierungsrath v. Bockum-Dolffs spread .

As a member of the former electoral committee in the Hartung'sche Zeitung, he also requested an on June 10th. J. chaired the meeting as its elected President and read out two resolutions adopted beforehand, which after a short debate with one of Dr. Falkson's amendment was unanimously accepted. ... In the first, the assembly declares its agreement with the principles previously represented by the House of Representatives and last stated in the address; in the second, the unconstitutionality of the ordinance of June 1 st. J. through the press.

On the basis of these activities, the Minister of Spiritual Affairs, by means of a decree of July 1st, d. J. against Professor Dr. Möller, in his capacity as a university professor and member of the Royal Medicinal College, orders the initiation of the disciplinary investigation for the purpose of dismissal and the simultaneous suspension of the accused from both offices. "

In 1864 he documented the unsuccessful objections to the professional ban in the book pieces of acts of the disciplinary investigation conducted against me . From then on he worked as a practicing doctor.

MP

Möller was then a city councilor and a member of many commissions as well as a member of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1863 to 1866 and a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of East Prussia from 1881 to 1884. From 1881 to 1887 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the Reichstag constituency of Königsberg 3 (Königsberg-Stadt) and the German Progressive Party .

literature

  • Julius Otto Ludwig Möller: Pieces of files of the disciplinary investigation conducted against me - A contribution to the history of New Prussia. Verlag von Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1864. (online)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pieces of files of the disciplinary investigation conducted against me. Page 5–6.
  2. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Möller, Julius Otto Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, surgeon and politician (DFP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1887
Place of death Koenigsberg