Richard Moeller

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Richard Wilhelm Ludwig Moeller (born March 31, 1890 in Rostock ; † December 16, 1945 in special camp No. 9 Fünfeichen ) was a German historian , teacher , politician ( DDP ) and author .

Richard Moeller's book under the pseudonym Widukind - History of the German People

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Richard Moeller was born as the son of the lawyer Anton Moeller (1838–1903) and his wife von Antonia, b. Piper (1851–1931), born into a family of lawyers in Rostock. After graduating from high school in 1907 at the large city school in Rostock , he began studying history and German at the University of Rostock in the winter semester of 1907/08 , where he initially completed one semester. After stays at the universities of Munich (1 semester) and Berlin (2 semesters), he returned to the University of Rostock in the winter semester of 1909/10, where, after six more semesters, in 1912 he passed the state examination for teaching at secondary schools. He then completed his preparatory service at the high school in Rostock and at the secondary schools in Schwerin and Malchin . In 1914 he received his doctorate in history with Hermann Reincke-Bloch with the title " summa cum laude " for Dr. phil. (Dissertation: Research on the history of the empire and papacy in the beginning of the 14th century ).

Moeller entered the secondary school service as a teacher and worked from 1914 to 1933 as a senior teacher at the Lyceum in Rostock.

From 1915 he took part in the First World War as a soldier (army service). He was dismissed as a war disabled in 1917, most recently he had assumed the rank of non-commissioned officer.

After the November Revolution, Moeller helped found the German Democratic Party (DDP) in Mecklenburg-Schwerin and was elected chairman of the Rostock local group in 1920; from 1926 to 1933 he was state chairman Mecklenburg-Schwerin of the DDP. From 1921 to 1933 Moeller was a member of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Landtag , most recently as a member of the BAM ( Bürgerliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Mitte ). From July 8, 1926 to July 9, 1929 (with a short interruption in 1927) he was Minister of State for Justice and Minister of State for Education, Art, Spiritual and Medical Affairs in the government of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin led by Prime Minister Paul Schröder (Cabinets Schröder I and Schröder II ).

During the Weimar Republic he was also a member of the Historical Commission for Mecklenburg .

After the National Socialists came to power , Moeller was dismissed from school in 1933. He worked as a private scholar and writer until 1941. After the publication of his book From Rurik to Stalin , he was taken back into the school service and worked from 1942 to 1945 as a teacher at the grammar school in Neubrandenburg .

After the end of the war, Moeller was appointed Ministerial Director of the Culture and National Education Department in the Schwerin State Administration in July 1945. As such, he was also a curator at the University of Rostock. In autumn 1945 the Soviet military administration arrested him and interned him in special camp No. 9 Fünfeichen . He was charged with the authorship of the 1939, partly anti-Bolshevik treatise Von Rurik bis Stalin . Richard Moeller died as a result of his imprisonment in the camp.

Richard Moeller was with Dorothea, geb. Jesse, married and had a daughter and a son.

Works (selection)

  • Ludwig the Bavarian and the Curia in the battle for the empire. Research (= historical studies. Vol. 116). Ebering, Berlin 1914 (extended version of the dissertation).
  • under the pseudonym " Widukind ": history of the German people. Armanen-Verlag , Leipzig 1934.
  • From Rurik to Stalin. Nature and Becoming of Russia. Goldmann, Leipzig 1939; new, changed edition 1940 and 1941 as Russia. Essence and becoming ; 1943 again under the original title.
  • Memoirs (= publications of the Historical Commission for Mecklenburg. Series C, Vol. 9). Edited by Bernd Kasten. Schmidt-Römhild, Rostock 2010, ISBN 978-3-7950-3748-2 .

literature

  • Helge bei der Wieden : The Mecklenburg governments and ministers. 1918–1952 (= writings on Mecklenburg history, culture and regional studies. Vol. 1). 2nd, supplemented edition. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1978, ISBN 3-412-05578-6 , p. 50 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enrollment (1) by Richard Moeller in the Rostock matriculation portal , accessed on February 21, 2016.
  2. ^ Enrollment (2) by Richard Moeller in the Rostock matriculation portal, accessed on February 21, 2016.
  3. ↑ Catalog card of the dissertation , dissertation catalog of the University Library Basel , accessed on February 21, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Moeller, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moeller, Richard Wilhelm Ludwig (full name); Widukind (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, teacher, politician (DDP) and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1945
Place of death Special warehouse No. 9 five-oaks