Albert Müller (Mayor)
Albert Müller (born July 27, 1891 in Solingen ; † January 27, 1951 ) was a German communist and politician.
Life
Albert Müller was a trained locksmith and had a wide range of training. For many years he was chairman of the Free School Society . In March 1933, two months after the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he was running on the KPD's list for the Solingen city council.
Müller lived in Solingen in the building at Potsdamer Str. 9, which also housed an SA office. As a result, he was constantly harassed and denounced . He was arrested five times, but no acts of resistance could be proven. Nevertheless, as a communist, he was held in protective custody from March 1933 to the end of April 1935 , including in the Börgermoor concentration camp , where he was one of the " Moorsoldaten ", and in 1937 in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . All his teeth were knocked out when he was mistreated, and he developed a heart condition. The last arrest took place on August 15, 1944, because he was suspected of having had contacts with the conspirators of the July 20 assassination attempt against Hitler .
On April 17, 1945, the previous mayor of Solingen, Rudolf Brückmann, handed over the city to the US troops , in the presence of Müller and Paul Kaiser ( SPD ). In February 1946 Albert Müller was appointed by the British military government after Oskar Rieß and Josef Brisch as Lord Mayor of Solingen until the first free local elections took place in October 1946 and the CDU member Gerhard Hebborn was elected.
On August 2, 2017, a stumbling block was laid for him at Potsdamer Str. 9 .
literature
- Ingrid Sbosny, Karl Schabrod : Resistance in Solingen. From the life of anti-fascist fighters . Fulda 1975, p. 125f.
Web link
- Picture by Müller (in a Solingen chronicle for 1946 ; PDF; 3.0 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1945: US soldiers move in . Solinger Tageblatt , June 24, 2006, accessed on December 13, 2016.
Friedrich Haumann (1894–1896) | August Dicke (1896–1928) | Hermann Schmidhäusler (1928–1930) | Josef Brisch (1930–1933) | Helmut Otto (1933–1937) | Rudolf Brückmann (1937–1945) | Oskar Rieß (1945) | Josef Brisch (1945–1946) | Albert Müller (1946) | Gerhard Hebborn (1946–1948) | Eugen Maurer (1948–1955) | Karl Haberland (1955–1961) | Otto Voos (1961–1964) | Heinz Dunkel (1964–1972) | Elisabeth Roock (1973–1975) | Otto Voos (1975-1976) | Georg Schlößer (1976–1984) | Gerd Kaimer (1984-1997) | Ulrich Uibel (1997–1999) | Franz Haug (1999–2009) | Norbert Feith (2009–2015) | Tim Kurzbach (since 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German communist, resistance fighter against National Socialism and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Solingen , Kingdom of Prussia , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 27, 1951 |