Samuel Gottlieb Müller

Samuel Gottlieb Müller (born January 20, 1802 in Frankfurt am Main ; † December 1, 1880 there ) was a German lawyer and politician.

life and work

Müller studied law in Bonn and Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate in 1821 . He joined the judicial administration of the Free City of Frankfurt and became a city judge in 1834, deputy city court director in 1838, city court director in 1839 and appellate judge in 1846.

Since 1833 he was active in the political bodies of the Free City, including the Legislative Assembly , of which he was President in 1851, and in the Senate of the Free City of Frankfurt . In 1842 and in 1844 he became the younger mayors elected in 1849, 1860 and 1863 for the elderly mayor . In 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament .

From 1861 to 1866 he represented the city as envoy to the German Confederation . He was considered a skilful, unprincipled tactician and realpolitician . Since he had publicly criticized the Prussian demands that led to the German War , he was arrested during the occupation of the Free City of Frankfurt on July 16, 1866 and taken hostage to the Cologne fortress , but on July 19 against his pledging On my word of honor released again. After that he took a cautious approach to the new rulers. After the suicide of Mayor Fellner on July 24th, he took over the management of the city's official business on July 27th by order of the Prussian military government. In this capacity he led a city delegation in August 1866, which negotiated with Bismarck and King Wilhelm I at the Prussian headquarters in Brno . Bismarck told him that the annexation of the Free City was a done deal. However, Müller kept this knowledge to himself, which, after the annexation decided by the Prussian state parliament in September, earned him serious accusations in large circles of the Frankfurt citizenship.

Müller kept his office until the constitution of the first magistrate elected under Prussian rule on February 27, 1868. Subsequently, under the influence of public opinion, he withdrew from urban politics. From 1874 until his death he was President of the Lutheran Consistory in Frankfurt . Part of his estate is in the Institute for Urban History .

family

Gottlieb Samuel Müller married Susanna Wilhelmine Lochner (1800–1872), a sister of Johann Friedrich Lochner , in 1830 . Their daughter Susanna Christiane Friederike was married to Carl Peter Burnitz for the second time .

literature

Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 .

Web links

FEDERAL ARCHIVE - Central database for estates In: nachlassdatenbank.de . Retrieved on August 30, 2016 (information about the estate of Samuel Gottlieb Müller at the Institute for Urban History in Frankfurt).
Müller, Samuel Gottlieb. Hessian biography. (As of May 9, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Müller, Samuel Gottlieb in the Frankfurt dictionary of persons

Individual evidence

↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)

predecessor	Office	successor
Eduard Ludwig von Harnier	Frankfurt envoy to the German Confederation from 1861 to 1866	-

personal data
SURNAME	Müller, Samuel Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	January 20, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	December 1, 1880
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)