Adolf Müller (lawyer)

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Adolf Müller (born January 21, 1886 in Miesenbach / Pfalz; † January 20, 1974 ibid) was a German administrative lawyer , ministerial official and politician .

Life

As the second son of a large farmer, Müller studied law at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and was awarded a doctorate for his work “Development of Palatinate Agriculture in the 19th Century”. jur. et rer. pole. PhD. In 1913 he passed the Great State Examination and in the following year he became a research assistant at the State Statistical Office in Munich. After military service in the First World War and subsequent imprisonment, in 1919 he was employed as an assistant at the Reich Statistical Office in Berlin. In 1920 he became a councilor, in 1923 a senior councilor, and in 1925 a ministerial councilor. In 1921/22 he worked in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture , 1922/23 in the Reich Ministry of the Interior and from 1923 to 1930 in the Reich Ministry for the occupied territories , where he headed the department for economic support. In 1930 he moved back to the Ministry of the Interior.

His greatest success as a ministerial official was the dismantling of the compulsory taxes of the farmers in the Palatinate and the introduction of a regular Reichswesthilfe , which promoted agriculture, cross-border commuters and mine workers. In the Third Reich he was deputy director of the Reich Office for Emigration from 1933 to 1944 . During this time he also promoted the sale of Palatine wine in Berlin by setting up Palatinate wine bars.

In the Second World War, Müller did military service again as a reserve officer and returned to Miesenbach / Pfalz after being a prisoner of war. In 1946, along with Franz Zapf, he was one of the founders of the Social Volksbund Hessen-Pfalz , which received approval from the French military government on May 11, 1946 and was the immediate forerunner of today's FDP Rhineland-Palatinate . Müller became a member of the provisional party executive committee, but soon withdrew from day-to-day political affairs. He was put up as a candidate for mayor for Miesenbach in the 1950s. His political estate is kept in the Homburg City Museum.

Fonts

  • The basics of agriculture in the Palatinate . Leipzig: Deichert, 1912
  • The battle for the Saar . Leipzig: Reclam, 1934

literature

  • Dr. Adolf Müller 75 years old . In: Die Rheinpfalz , January 21, 1961
  • Kurt Weitzel: From chaos to democracy, The emergence of the parties in Rhineland-Palatinate 1945-47 . Edited by the State Center for Civic Education Rhineland-Palatinate , 1989, pp. 88–126
  • Paul Kaps: The press is to blame for everything. Meetings of a Palatine newspaper man . Neustadt / Weinstrasse: Palatinate Publishing House, 1979

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eugen Mayer: Sketches from the life of the Weimar Republic. Berlin memories . Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1962, p. 112.
  2. ^ Andreas Löw: The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 . Volume 3: German Reich and Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia September 1939 - September 1941 . Munich 2012, p. 143.
  3. ↑ Wine advertising was attractive forty years ago (visit to retired Ministerialdirigent Dr. Dr. Adolf Müller) . In: Die Rheinpfalz, March 16, 1961.
  4. ^ Andreas Galonska: State party systems in federalism. Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse 1945–1996 . Wiesbaden 1999, p. 83.
  5. ^ Gerhard Nestler, Hannes Ziegler: The Palatinate in the post-war period. Reconstruction and a new democratic beginning (1945–1954) . Edited by the Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore. Kaiserslautern 2004, p. 390.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer, ministerial official and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Miesenbach
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 1974
Place of death Miesenbach