August Müller (politician, 1873)

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August Müller (born November 20, 1873 in Wiesbaden , † 1946 in Berlin ) was a German economist , publicist and politician ( SPD , DDP ). In 1918/1919 he was Reich Economics Minister for the SPD (former designation: State Secretary in the Reich Economics Office).

Life and work

August Müller attended elementary school and initially completed an apprenticeship as a gardener . From 1896 he worked as a union secretary. On February 1, 1898, on the recommendation of Adolph von Elm , he took up the post of 2nd editor at the Magdeburger Volksstimme . In 1900 he interrupted his professional activity and studied economics in Zurich. Although he had no high school, he was accepted as a graduate student and graduated as Dr. jur. publ. et rer. cam. with the top grade summa cum laude . In 1909 he became a board member of the Central Association of German Consumers' Associations (ZdK). From 1920 to 1933 he was a member of the Provisional Reich Economic Council . He also worked as an associate professor in Berlin .

Between 1905 and 1919, he published a total of 12 essays in the Socialist monthly magazine .

Political party

He joined the SPD during the time of the German Empire . Müller was a member of the right wing of social democracy and advocated annexations of Belgian territories during the First World War. In 1925 he switched to the DDP. In 1929 he resigned from the DDP.

Public offices

In 1916, under the conditions of the truce in World War I, Müller was the first social democrat to be appointed to a higher Reich authority and in 1917 was appointed Undersecretary of State in the War Food Office. After the armistice in 1918, he was first Undersecretary of State and, from November 14th, State Secretary in the Reich Economics Office . His successor on February 13th was Rudolf Wissell , also an SPD.

Publications

  • Socialization or socialism . Publishing house Ullstein & Co, Berlin 1919.

literature

  • Erwin Hasselmann: History of the German consumer cooperatives. Fritz Knapp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1971.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ A b Rüdiger Zimmermann: Biographical Lexicon of the ÖTV and its predecessor organizations. - Library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn 1998. Part 127.
  2. ^ Erwin Hasselmann : History of the German consumer cooperatives . Fritz Knapp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1971, p. 374 f.
  3. ↑ AugustMüller - The European peace problem . In: Socialist monthly books. 23 (1917), January 17, 1917. Online at library.fes.de, accessed October 5, 2013, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, journalist and politician (SPD, DDP)
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH 1946
Place of death Berlin