Valentin Möhl

Valentin Möhl (* 1772 ; † 1844 ) was a Baden politician . From 1820 to 1832 he was the first mayor of Mannheim .

Möhl ran a wine tavern in Mannheim. He was a colonel in the vigilante group and a member of the city council. After the resignation of Johann Wilhelm Reinhardt , he was elected mayor of Mannheim in 1820. The year before August von Kotzebue had been murdered by Karl Ludwig Sand in Mannheim , so that his term of office was shaped by the Karlsbad resolutions and he took only few initiatives against the Baden authorities. Due to a new law, the number of Mannheimers with citizenship rose sharply in 1832. Möhl then no longer received a majority in the due mayoral election.

Möhl was married to Anna Linck, a daughter of the sculptor Franz Conrad Linck . The city of Mannheim has named a street in Schwetzingerstadt after him and maintains his grave in the main cemetery as a grave of honor . In 1830 Valentin Möhl was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Zähringer Lion Order .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MARCHIVUM: street names, Möhlstraße. Retrieved August 27, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Grand Duchy of Baden 1834, p. 62 (online)

See also

• List of the Lord Mayors of Mannheim

literature

• Rudolf Haas, Wolfgang Münkel: Guide to the graves of well-known Mannheim personalities. Mannheim 1981.
• City of Mannheim, Michael Caroli, Ulrich Nieß (eds.): History of the city of Mannheim: Volume II 1801–1914. Ubstadt-Weiher 2007, ISBN 978-3-89735-471-5 .