Anton Miller

Anton Miller (born August 25, 1899 in Augsburg ; † June 26, 1988 there ) was a German entrepreneur and politician ( CDU , CSU ).

Life and work

Miller, the son of a farmer, first worked in agriculture after attending elementary school, then was temporarily a forest worker, construction worker and metal worker. From the end of 1916 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier and was taken prisoner of war in the summer of 1918, from which he was released at the end of 1919. In 1920/21 he went to agricultural school. He then worked as an employee at an agricultural association. After attending commercial school in 1924/25, he founded his own company in the chemical industry as an independent industrial clerk, which he expanded from 1930 to 1939 to include foreign branches in Austria , France and England . In 1945 his company was completely destroyed in an air raid.

Before the end of World War II , Miller began rebuilding his factory in Halle (Saale) on April 20, 1945 . In 1949, for political and economic reasons, he moved from the Soviet Zone to West Germany and settled in Ingolstadt . Here he worked again as an industrial clerk.

Political party

Miller joined the CDU in summer 1945 and was chairman of the housing and settlement committee in the state association of the CDU Saxony-Anhalt . After moving, he joined the CSU in 1949, where he held the position of regional chairman of the working group of Soviet zone refugees.

MP

From 1946 until his resignation on August 15, 1949, Miller was a member of the Saxony-Anhalt State Parliament . Here he was deputy chairman from 1946 and then chairman of the CDU parliamentary group from 1947 to 1949. In 1948/49 he served as Vice President of the State Parliament. From March 1948 he was a member of the 1st People's Council of the Soviet Zone . He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1957. He entered parliament through the Bavarian State List .

literature

• Kurt Schwarze : Handbook of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt , Mitteldeutsche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Halle (Saale) 1947, p. 267.
• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 567.