Ulrich Moller (businessman)

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Ulrich Moller (born August 5, 1733 in Hamburg ; † November 23, 1807 there ) was a German businessman and co-founder of the Patriotic Society from 1765 .

Origin and family

Moller came from the Hamburg Hanseatic family Moller vom Baum . His father was the merchant of the same name and councilor Ulrich Moller (1690–1761) and his mother was Catharina Lente (1707–1742), daughter of Gerd Lente (1671–1738) and granddaughter of senior Gerd Lente (1640–1719).

On July 29, 1760, Moller married Anna Dorothea Boetefeur (1737-1818), daughter of the elder Philipp Boetefeur (1692-1766). 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. Daughter Anna Ulrike had the son Johann Friedrich Albrecht August Meyer , who became a lawyer. His niece was Elisabeth Hudtwalcker , née Moller. His granddaughter Anna Elisabeth Moller (* 1823), daughter of their son Johannes, married the painter Friedrich Adolph Hornemann in 1865 .

Life

Moller was a merchant, got involved in his father's business and also administered numerous honorary posts in Hamburg: in 1761 he became adjunct to Sankt Katharinen and deputy to the bread order, 1762 citizen at the Admiralty Customs , 1763 subdeacon to Sankt Katharinen and deputy to the Weinaccise , 1764 commercial judge at the Hamburg Lower court , the war Department and citizens in the lap board of St. Catherine, 1765 citizens in Viehaccise, 1766 Provisor the spinning house and member of Fortifikations deputation, 1768 Baubürger , 1771 Banco citizens , 1,775 citizens in the offices regulation, 1789 Brand showers in the parish Sankt Petri and 1803 stock exchange age in the Englandfahrer-Gesellschaft.

After the Seven Years' War a financial crisis set in in Hamburg in 1763. Many banks had speculated during the war. Moller brought his trading company safely through this crisis, but had to give up this business in 1778. Instead he founded the Fifth Insurance Company in the same year and, when the insurance company was successful, became its agent in 1779. In 1787 he founded the insurance library , which by 1804 already comprised 5,480 works, which he cataloged from 1787 and regularly published the associated directory. This library had its own librarian and was once located in the Hamburg Cathedral , then in the Sankt Johanniskirche and later in a granary, before the library, which then comprised more than 6,000 works, was transferred to today's Hamburg State and University Library .

In 1765 he was a co-founder of the Patriotic Society, which was established to promote the arts and useful trades. In the years 1790 and 1791 he was also President of this society. His longstanding membership and collaboration in the Patriotic Society meant that after his death his portrait was hung in the society's meeting room.

In 1797 Moller founded the Fußboten-Post , which remained in the family until 1832.

Moller also bought the extension of the family vicarage at the Hamburg cathedral, for which the family received 10,000 marks after the Hamburg cathedral chapter was abolished in 1804 .

He died in Hamburg in 1807 at the age of 74.

Works (selection)

  • Plan of a 5th insurance company . Hamburg 1778.
  • Draft to create a Fußboten-Post, both for Hamburg and for the surrounding areas through Actien . Hamburg 1796.
  • Directory of the book collection of the fifth Hamburg Insurance Company . Hamburg 1804 ( digitized on the website of the Hamburg State and University Library).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Georg Buek : Gerd Lente (Lenthe) . In: The Hamburg Oberalts, their civil effectiveness and their families . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1857, p. 177–178 ( digitized from Google Books).
  2. ^ Friedrich Georg Buek : Philipp Boetefeur . In: The Hamburg Oberalts, their civil effectiveness and their families . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1857, p. 240–242 ( digitized from Google Books).
  3. ↑ Something historical, both about the origins and first establishment, as well as the gradual increase, the later changes and the current internal and external condition, as well as about the current establishment of the public city library in Hamburg . In: Johann Anton Rudolph Janssen (Hrsg.): Detailed information about all the Evangelical-Protestant churches and clergy in the free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg and their area, as well as about their Johanneum, grammar school, library and the men employed there . Hamburg 1826, p. 208 ( digitized from Google Books).
personal data
SURNAME Moller, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moller from the tree, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant, co-founder of the Patriotic Society (from 1765)
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1733
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1807
Place of death Hamburg