Moritz Grünweller

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Moritz Grünweller (born December 11, 1864 in Ransbach near Wiesbaden ; † November 14, 1925 in the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck ) was Lübeck's police director.

Life

After graduating from high school , he studied history at the university for a few semesters before choosing to become an officer in the artillery.

There he was in 1883 to lieutenant and in 1890 to lieutenant promoted. In 1895, when he was promoted to captain , he was appointed company commander in foot artillery regiment No. 12 in Metz .

Due to a throat catarrh , he said goodbye in 1897, was briefly a district officer and then began his police career at the Hanover police headquarters . After he became Royal Police Commissioner in 1898 , he was promoted to Royal Police Inspector and Chief of the Protection Team in Kiel with the title of Police Lieutenant. There were 8 commissioners, 12 sergeants and 212 men under his control . At that time he had the qualification of a Prussian Police Council .

The Lübeck Senate had 1,905 Captain Green Weller replace the late on June 24, John Otto Munck appointed his inspector. When he took up his post on August 1, he awarded him the title of Police Captain. As an officer on the leave of absence, he was a member of the Guards Landwehr foot artillery. The annual artillery roll call, which took place at the Alte Kaserne in Lübeck in 1909 , was under his direction. The Russian Emperor Nicholas II awarded him the Russian Order of St. Anne, 2nd class in April 1909 .

On February 22, 1913, the Danish king awarded the police captain the Knight's Cross of the Dannebrog Order. That same year he was awarded the title of Police Major by the Senate, the Police Captain .

Despite a severe heart condition he reported the outbreak of World War II soon as Major d. R. in active service and was assigned to the Guard Landwehr of the Guard Foot Artillery Regiment (1st contingent (Lübeck)). However, he left this after a short time.

From then until 1918 he was first with Colonel z. D. v. Kuenheim , then with the deputy commander of the 81st Infantry Brigade , Major General Harry von Wright , for the direction of the military preparation of the youth in the area of ​​the XI. Army Corps in the Lübeck district.

Address by Pastor Mildenstein at the flag consecration
Club front

All the associations of the National Warrior Association followed on the afternoon of January 17, 1915 from the market in the Schutzmannkapelle to the courtyard of the old barracks for the flag consecration of the Jungwehr . Under the leadership of the police major Grünweller, the youth companies were positioned to the left and right of a lectern . The youth armed forces, which formed in Lübeck as in the whole of the German Empire immediately after the outbreak of war, served as a voluntary organization under the leadership of old soldiers and energetic men to provide military training for young people . Behind the speaker's pulpit the national war clubs gathered with their flags, the honorary chairman of the association Heinrich Kühne , the chairman of the printing house owner and publisher of the Lübeck association Julius Heise, the deputy colonel v. Kuenheim, Mayor Johann Hermann Eschenburg , Senate and City Council members, other guests of honor and a large crowd. The ceremonial handover of the flag donated by the National Warrior Association began with the Dutch prayer of thanks before Pastor Wilhelm Mildenstein climbed onto the desk and gave a speech that went from the Wars of Liberation of 1813 about the Franco-German War to the current war. After a chorale Julius Heise conveyed the greetings of the country Warriors Association, members of the youth military was the youngest comrades and brought an enthusiastic recorded " high " to the emperor from. The imperial anthem was sung. The Colonel then handed the stepped forward, who had been chosen to bear the standard, the flag in Luebsche colors bearing an eagle. They thanked them with the vow that they should be an incentive for all members to fulfill their duties as faithfully as possible. After the National Warrior Association in the person of the secretary , painter Wilhelm Siems, and the scout corps affiliated to the Boy Scout Association in the person of the main field master , teacher Wilhelm Groth, each decorated the flag with a flag nail, the ceremony ended with the singing of the Germany song . After the mayor, colonel and police major had paced the front of the clubs, the National Warrior Association and all the companies of the youth armed forces went to the market to the sounds of the protection team band. The band gave concerts there, while collecting for the prisoners of war from Lübeck .

Police major Grünweller welcomes the teams to the military exercise.

In June 1915 he led a military exercise of the Lübeck and Altona youth brigades in the Palinger Heide (military training area for the local regiment ). Then he was transferred to the Westphalian Foot Artillery Regiment No. 7 in Cologne . Here, too, he prepared the youth for deployment at the front and was awarded the Lübeck Hanseatic Cross , the medal of his hometown, on October 18, 1916 .

Police Director a. D. Grünweller

His wife Adele, née Traetmar, died on October 30, 1918 in Cologne and was buried on November 6, 1918 in the Burgtorfriedhof .

After the war, the major returned to the Hanseatic city as head of the police force . On December 18, 1919, he was awarded the title of Police Director by the Senate ; he retired on January 1, 1920 at his own request .

After this, Grünweller continued to make himself available to the police office and worked on a voluntary basis to set up and improve the department to combat price gouging . He continued to volunteer on the board of the Lübeck Regional Association of the Red Cross and its committee for column systems. He was also a member of the board of the Krieger-Lübeck medical column and the board of the Lübeck district association of the cooperative of voluntary nurses , of which he was chairman during the war. In his final years he also served on the board of the Reformed Church .

In the early summer of 1925, the police director a. D. a stroke that he succumbed to in November.

Awards

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Web links

Commons : Moritz Grünweller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Police Captain Grünweller In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , Jg. 1905, No. 27, edition dated July 2, 1905
  • The warrior medical column of the Red Cross, lecture by Mr. Mieraus: 15 years medical column In: Lübeckische advertisements, edition of April 8, 1913
  • Police Director a. D. Grünweller † In: Lübeckische advertisements . No. 270, issue of November 16, 1925
  • Police Director a. D. Grünweller † In: Vaterstädtische Blätter . Born 1925/26, No. 4, issue of November 22, 1925

Archives

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Local Notes In: Lübeckische Blätter , Jg. 47, No. 27 of July 2, 1905
  2. ^ Artillery roll call of the IX. Army Corps In: Papal Papers ; Issued June 27, 1909
  3. ↑ Local notes in: Lübeckische Blätter, Vol. 51, No. 17 of April 25, 1909
  4. ↑ Local notes in: Lübecker Blätter, vol. 55, no. 27 of July 6, 1913
  5. ↑ Julius Heise (ed.): Between home and front. War journeys with gifts of love from the Lübeck State Warrior Association. Lübeck Vlg Landeskrieger-Verband, Lübeck 1916.
  6. ↑ Consecration of the flags of the youth armed forces , year 1914/15, No. 17, edition of January 24, 1915, p. 71.
  7. ↑ Military exercise of the Lübeck and Altona youth fighters on the Palinger Heide In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1914/15, edition of June 6, 1915
  8. ↑ obituary ; In: Lübeckische advertisements ; No. 527, issue of November 7, 1918


personal data
SURNAME Grünweller, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police director
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Ransbach near Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1925
Place of death Lübeck