Moller from the tree

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Coat of arms of the Moller family from the tree drawn by Eduard Lorenz-Meyer

Moller vom Baum is the name of a Hanseatic family . Several mayors , councilors , merchants and other dignitaries have emerged from the family .

history

The family is actually called Moller (also Möller or Müller), but called itself to differentiate it from the other families of the same name, after the sleeve tree that appears in their coat of arms: Moller vom Baum .

origin

The Moller family was first mentioned in Hamburg in 1427 with Nikolaus Moller. However, the progenitor of the established family line is the church jury to Sankt Petri Lütke Moller, presumably a nephew of Nikolaus, who acquired the family's ancestral home in Hamburg on January 14, 1441.

Spread and lines

Lütke Moller's sons were Ludolf, who died as bishop- designate of Lübeck on the journey from Italy to Lübeck , the Hamburg canon Johann Moller, who wrote a work on religious change in Hamburg, and Vincent, who was Hamburg's councilor in 1518 and in 1542 was bailiff in Ritzebüttel . Another son was the doctor of theology and lector primarius at the Hamburg Cathedral Barthold Moller , who as a Catholic theologian became rector of the University of Rostock after the Reformation .

The councilor and bailiff in Ritzebüttel Vincent († 1554) was married twice and had 15 children from these two marriages. Of his sons Vincent († 1580) also became councilor and bailiff in Ritzebüttel, Diedrich was church jury member to Sankt Nikolai and married Gesche von Spreckelsen , daughter of the mayor Peter von Spreckelsen († 1553), Johann († 1606) became senior elder and Caspar (1549) –1610), also a councilor and bailiff in Ritzebüttel, was married to Lucia von Spreckelsen († 1634), another daughter of the mayor Peter von Spreckelsen.

A son of the church jury at Sankt Nicolai Diedrich was Vincent († 1618). He became a councilor in Bremen . A son of the elder Johann († 1606) was also called Vincent (1568-1625) and was council syndicate and founder of the first main branch of the family. A son of the councilor and bailiff in Ritzebüttel Caspar (1549-1610) called himself Vincentius († 1631) and was also the council syndicate and founder of the Second Main Branch.

First main branch

The council syndicate Vincent (1568–1625) was married to Elisabeth Beckmann (1586–1657), daughter of the mayor Barthold Beckmann (1549–1622). Of his sons, Barthold (1605–1667) was mayor in 1643, Johann († 1672) in 1654 Council Syndicus and Vincent (1615–1668) Royal Swedish Privy Council , as well as resident of the Hanseatic cities and the Lower Saxony district in Hamburg.

A son of the council syndicus Johann († 1672) was the mayor Hieronymus Hartwig (1641–1702), whose son Hartwig Johann (1677–1732) became senior secretary and councilor and was the father of the judge Hieronymus Hartwig (1711–1780).

Second main branch

The council syndicate Vincentius († 1631) was married to Gertrude von Eitzen, daughter of the mayor Diedrich von Eitzen († 1598). His son Diedrich (1622–1687) was mayor and continued the tribe. He was married to Anna Jarre (1633–1719), daughter of the mayor Nicolaus Jarre (1603–1678). Their son Vincent (1656–1737) became senior and father of councilor Ulrich (1690–1761). Ulrich's eldest son Vincent (1724–1754) became a merchant (his daughter was Elisabeth Moller ), another son Ulrich (1733–1807), who was also a merchant, was a co-founder of the Patriotic Society of 1765 . Of his three sons, Philipp (1763–1835) was a businessman, Johannes (1770–1839) Jurat to Sankt Michaelis and Adolf (1773–1831) was also a businessman.

A son of the businessman Philipp (1763-1835) was the businessman Gustav (1806-1889). Three of his sons continue the tribe: Ulrich Philipp (1836–1926) studied law in Heidelberg and worked as a judge and politician, Gustav Vincent (1840–1869) left only one daughter, Emmy, who was married to Pastor Carl Homann, and Ascan (1844–1895) became a businessman. Ascan's sons Gustav (1873-1909) and Hans Vincent (* 1888) carried the title of nobility in their name. Gustav became a lawyer and Hans Vincent became director of the banking house Dippe-Bestehorn, of Moller & Co. in Quedlinburg and later a member of the management of the banking house Gebrüder Bethmann in Frankfurt am Main .

Third main branch

Jacob Caspar Müller (from the tree), * Holstein or Hamburg? Merchant, bailiff and tenant in Mecklenburg, died in Groß Rentzow in 1718, ∞ Anna Harder, died in 1731, possibly a pastor's daughter from Pokrent. In 1698 he founded the glassworks in Kloddram near Vellahn in West Mecklenburg, in which 13 journeymen and 2 apprentices were already employed in 1703. In Kloddram he even has his own school with a specially employed teacher for the children of his glassworks families. Another private tutor taught the merchant's children. Later huts are in Dümmerhütte, Parum, Bahlenhüschen, Kritzow etc .... In 1708 he leased the Gammelin office and in 1714 bought the manor Groß Renzow near Wittenburg from Lieutenant Colonel Franz von Löw for 13,818 thousand dollars. and 24 shillings. The large baroque manor complex already had a z. A manor park based on the French model, some of which is still preserved today, and an orangery, which was still rare at the time. Children: Jacob Caspar II von Müller, born in Kloddram in 1703, real councilor, bailiff and Drost in Varchentin, died in Stavenhagen in 1753, married Eleonore Charlotte Anna von Brandt in 1729 in Wittenburg (born in 1712 in Wittenburg and died in 1747 in Stavenhagen, daughter by Joachim Heinrich von Brandt and by Margarete Mutterer).

Status surveys

On October 3, 1613, the descendants of the progenitor Lütke Moller received the imperial nobility in Regensburg .

On March 8, 1654, Vincent Moller (1615–1668), the royal Swedish Privy Councilor and resident of the Lower Saxony District in Hamburg, received the Swedish nobility naturalization.

On December 28, 1750, Jacob Caspar II (1703–1753) and his siblings were raised to the imperial nobility by Emperor Franz I.

On August 15, 1907, the lawyer Gustav von Moller (1873–1909) received a certificate of nobility from the royal heraldry in Berlin and on January 11, 1908, the approval of the highest cabinet order in Weimar, for himself and his legitimate offspring, to carry the title of nobility from .

On September 1, 1909, his brother Hans Vincent von Moller (* 1888) was also granted the title of nobility by the highest cabinet order in Berlin.

coat of arms

The coat of arms is split and shows half a silver mill wheel in blue at the front and three interlocking bushes in silver that grow from a common three-part root. On the helmet with a blue-silver cover , between, in front blue over silver, behind silver over blue, divided wings, the sleeve tree is shown again.

Name bearer

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Hans Schröder  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Schröder : Moller (Vincent I.) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 5 , no. 2672 . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1870, OCLC 165098719 ( facsimile on the website of the Hamburg State and University Library [accessed on July 10, 2019]).
  2. ^ Ingo Köhler: The "Aryanization" of the private banks in the Third Reich. Repression, elimination and the question of reparation . In: Series of publications on the journal for corporate history . 2nd Edition. tape 14 . CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-53200-9 , p. 55 ( online at Google Books).
  3. ↑ Federal Association of the Private Banking Industry (Ed.): Report on the 1956 financial year . S. 22 ( online at Google Books).