Adolf Müller (publisher)

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Adolf Müller (born May 4, 1884 in Munich ; † May 23, 1945 ) was a German printer and publisher . Among other things, he printed the National Socialist propaganda newspaper “ Völkischer Beobachter ” and Hitler's book “ Mein Kampf ”.

Life

Adolf Müller's father, Michael Müller, founded a tailoring school with a fashion publishing house in Schellingstrasse 39/41 in Munich in 1891 . Adolf Müller attended elementary school , trained as an electrical mechanic and was trained in his father's company from 1907. In 1914 he was retired due to hearing loss and founded the printing company Münchner Buchgewerbehaus M. Müller & Sohn with the railway construction and operations inspector Otto Königer .

The company printed and distributed newspapers and magazines. In December 1920 Müller entered into a business relationship with the Franz-Eher-Verlag and was introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart . Müller was involved in the establishment of the Munich SA . From August 1923 the SA headquarters were located in Carré Schellingstrasse / Barerstrasse . Nazi newspapers such as the Munich Observer , who later appeared as the Völkischer Beobachter , the Illustrierte Beobachter, and the Black Corps were printed here. All products were nominally published by Franz-Eher-Verlag.

After Hitler was released from imprisonment in Landsberg am Lech in December 1924 , Müller printed the pamphlet Mein Kampf , which became a bestseller in the first editions. By 1945 over 11 million copies had been printed. The Völkischer Beobachter , on the other hand, sold poorly for a long time; this only changed when the National Socialists won the Reichstag elections in November 1932 .

After Geli Raubal shot himself in the shared apartment at Prinzregentenplatz 16 , Hitler lived temporarily from September 20, 1931 in Müller's house in St. Quirin am Tegernsee .

With the takeover of the Nazi Party in January 1933, boosting demand for Nazi literature and press into the air and made Mueller a wealthy man. In the meantime he was the sole managing director of the printing company working for the NSDAP.

In May 1934, at Hitler's special request, Müller joined the NSDAP and donated 1,000 Reichsmarks to the party. From 1937 he was a member of the supervisory board of the German Labor Front and from the late 1930s sat on the supervisory board of Deutsche Bank , the advisory board of the Deutsche Reichspost and the advertising council of the German economy.

At the beginning of the war in 1939, Müller's company was the most modern printing and publishing company in Germany and employed 1,267 workers, 146 employees and 29 editors. 1.7 million issues of the Völkischer Beobachter alone were printed daily , as well as two million copies of various magazines a week.

On March 10, 1943, a large part of the factory was destroyed in an Allied air raid. After the American troops marched into Munich at the end of April 1945, Müller was arrested. A few weeks later he was found hanged in his cell in Stadelheim .

source

  • Karl Stankiewitz: "Grüß Gott, Herr Hitler". Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 17, 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rüdiger Hachtmann: The economic empire of the German labor front 1933-1945. Wallstein, Göttingen, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1037-7 , pp. 554 f.
  2. ↑ a b c d Karl Stankiewitz: "Grüß Gott, Herr Hitler". Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 17, 2013.
  3. ^ Paul Bruppacher: Adolf Hitler and the history of the NSDAP: A Chronicle. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2008, Part 1, ISBN 978-3-8334-8660-9 , p. 214 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German printer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1945