Arno Müller (social scientist)

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Arno Müller (born December 14, 1899 in Breslau ; † June 12, 1984 in Magdeburg ) was a German university professor for dialectical and historical materialism . From 1950 to 1952 he was a member of the Brandenburg State Parliament .

Life

Arno Müller, the son of a businessman and factory owner, graduated from high school and did military service from 1917 to 1918 during the First World War . He then began to study political science and economics at the University of Breslau , which he finished in 1924 with a degree in economics. From 1932 he studied mathematics and philosophy there and received his doctorate in 1936 with a thesis on integral geometry. The Nazi era inhibited his activity. Although he was able to do a doctorate, as an opponent of fascism he was exposed to constant persecution and had to work in private science.

At the beginning of the war in 1939, Müller was drafted as a clerk to the Landesschützenbataillon 557 of the Wehrmacht and came to France . Here he established ties to the French resistance movement and deserted in August 1944. In the Béziers prisoner-of-war camp in southern France, he joined the “Free Germany” committee for the West ( French Comité “Allemagne libre” pour l'Ouest , CALPO), and became its vice-president was elected in February 1945. After his release from captivity, he went to Saarbrücken and became a member of the KPD district leadership in the Saar area. In July 1946 he was expelled from the French occupation zone with Bruno Peterson , Roman Rubinstein and other communists and moved to Potsdam .

Müller became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and initially worked for two years as a consultant and senior consultant in the administration of the province and the state of Brandenburg under Fritz Rücker . His area of ​​responsibility included the redesign of the adult education system. When the Brandenburg State University (from 1951: University of Education Potsdam ) was founded in 1948 , Müller was entrusted with the role of Vice-Rector. He gave the opening speech of the university on October 20, 1948 in the theater of the New Palace in Potsdam .

With the mandate of the SED, he was elected to the Brandenburg state parliament in October 1950, to which he was a member until it was dissolved in 1952. In April 1951 he was elected as the successor to Arthur Baumgarten as rector of the university and remained in this position until 1956.

For the winter semester 1957/58 Müller was appointed professor for dialectical and historical materialism at the Technical University of Magdeburg . At the same time he was Vice-Rector for Social Sciences, Director of the Institute for Marxism-Leninism and first Deputy Rector.

Müller was a member of the SED district leadership in Magdeburg from 1960 , later a Magdeburg city councilor and member of the Magdeburg City Council. He was a member of the leadership of the Magdeburg district committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters until old age . He was married and last lived on Uhlichstrasse in Magdeburg. He died at the age of 84 and was buried in the Westfriedhof Magdeburg .

family

He was married to the art historian and journalist Marga Müller († 1959), who came from the Baltic States . She occasionally interpreted conversations that Arno Müller had with the head of the popular education department of the Soviet military administration of the State of Brandenburg, Major Professor PS Oreschkow , in Potsdam in the winter of 1947/48 .

Awards

literature

  • Federal Ministry for all German issues (ed.): SBZ biography. A biographical reference book on the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Bonn 1961, p. 239.
  • Andreas Herbst u. a. (Ed.): This is how the GDR worked , Volume 3: Lexicon of Functionaries . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 233.

Fonts

  • Integral Geometry 16. Densities of linear manifolds in Euclidean and non-Euclidean Rn . Berlin 1936.
  • The adult education center in the Goethe year . Halle / Saale 1949.

source

  • Information No. 257/56 - Re: threat of strike by Professor Picht, Pädagogische Hochschule Potsdam, Institute for Theoretical Physics, in: Henrik Bispinck (edit): The GDR in view of the Stasi 1956. The secret reports to the SED leadership, Göttingen 2016, available online at [1]

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Expelled from the Saar area . In: Neues Deutschland , July 23, 1946, p. 2.
  2. ↑ Caption to the contemporary photo, in: Pädagogische Hochschule Potsdam. Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 1948–1968, Volume 12, Issue 1, 1968, p. 47; ISSN 0138-290x, DNB 011139439
  3. ^ Three candidates from among the people : In .: Berliner Zeitung , September 17, 1950, p. 4.
  4. ↑ Prof. Müller Rector in Potsdam . In: Neue Zeit , April 13, 1951, p. 4.
  5. ↑ Lively dispute about services . In: Neues Deutschland , August 5, 1965, p. 3.
  6. ^ Obituary by the Magdeburg district leadership of the SED. In: Volksstimme , June 13, 1984, p. 2.
  7. ↑ Obituary notice of his family. In the Volksstimme of June 15, 1984.
  8. ↑ Müller, Arno: "... for me the nine years in Potsdam were of great importance", in Pädagogische Hochschule Potsdam. Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 1948–1968, Volume 12, Issue 1, 1968, pp. (45–58) 57 in connection with p. 45 f .; ISSN 0138-290x, DNB 011139439
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1984
Place of death Magdeburg