Roloff Möller

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Roloff Möller (* 1498 in Stralsund ; † 1529 there ) was a Stralsund patrician and mayor .

Möller (also: Moller) belonged to an old patrician family that had been represented in the city council since 1453. The family was related to the Gildehusen and Mörder families. His father, the old man of the Gewandhaus tailor Roloff Möller, married Magdalena Wadenberg, sister of the Schwerin episcopal administrator Zutfeld Wardenberg , after the death of his first wife Barbara († 1497) . His great religious zeal aroused the opposite of what he was striving for in Möller, so that he ultimately became a staunch supporter of the Reformation .

Möller supported the Reformation in Stralsund, which was spread by Christian Ketelhot .

In the meetings of the council, Möller, who, through his uncle Henning Mörder, was hostile to the mayor Zabel Oseborn and others, repeatedly raised serious accusations against him and other council members; he accused them of abuse of power. He took care of the interests of the offices not represented in the council and, supported by them and the supporters of the Reformation, became the leader of the newly established "48 Committee" in 1524. After the unrest caused by the “church breaking” on April 10, 1525, Möller was elected mayor together with Christoph Lorbeer .

In office, however, Möller soon took advantage of this to enforce his own interests, as he had previously accused the other person of. He rejected himself with his former supporters and the "48 committee". On June 28, 1525 he took from the dukes George I and Barnim IX. the fief of the Mützkow estate, on July 2, 1526 that of Pantelitz and Neuenpleen . He transferred the formerly Catholic parish in Prohn to his then eight-year-old son Georg . This caused the rejection of his behavior to grow in the city. He left Stralsund in 1527, whereupon Nikolaus Smiterlow , for whom he had been elected mayor, returned from voluntary exile and was given back his office.

Möller lived in Stettin until 1529 , from where he returned to Stralsund that year with an episcopal letter of safe conduct, where he died.

family

Roloff Möller's son Georg Möller was a councilor in Stralsund from 1562 to 1578. His brother Nikolaus Möller's daughter Gertrud married Georg Smiterlow.

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SURNAME Möller, Roloff
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moller, Moeller
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Stralsund
DATE OF BIRTH 1498
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH 1529
Place of death Stralsund