Anton Müller (politician)

Anton Müller (born January 15, 1888 in Wehringen near Augsburg , † August 25, 1943 in Untermaßfeld ) was a German politician ( KPD ) and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .

Life

Müller learned the trade of a baker and worked as a baker's assistant. From 1910 to 1912 he did his military service in the Mainz fortress and then worked as a baker in Frankfurt am Main . Müller was a member of the SPD even before the First World War , in which he was a soldier until he was wounded in 1918 . Then he worked again as a baker in Frankfurt am Main. In 1918 he joined the USPD and in 1920 the KPD. He held various responsible positions in Frankfurt am Main. In 1931 he attended the party school of the KPD "Rosa Luxemburg" in Fichtenau near Berlin . In April 1932 he was elected to the Prussian state parliament for the constituency of Hessen-Nassau .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Müller stayed in hiding for a few months from February 1933 and headed the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition in the Hesse-Frankfurt district. At the end of 1933 he traveled to Central Germany, initially living illegally in Leipzig and then from December 1933 headed the illegal Red Aid for Thuringia under the code name Theo in Gera . On June 2, 1934, he was arrested by the Gestapo in Gera and sentenced to ten years in prison by the Thuringian Higher Regional Court on January 7, 1935 . Müller died on August 25, 1943 in the Untermaßfeld prison .

literature

• Luise Kraushaar : German resistance fighters 1933-1945. Biographies and letters. Volume 2. Dietz, Berlin 1970, p. 529.
• Müller, Anton . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .