August Müller (naval construction officer)

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August Müller

Johann Friedrich August Müller (* 8. May 1867 in Lübeck ; † 2. December 1922 ibid ) was an engineer officer of the Imperial Navy and most recently operations director of the Imperial Shipyard Kiel .

Life

origin

No. 50 and 48 around 1936

Müller came from an old Lübeck family. His father, the businessman Friedrich August Jacob Müller and his wife Pauline , a born Gossmann. was the owner of the renowned linen and manufacturing business F. A. Müller . This was located at Breite Straße MMQ 841, which later became No. 48.

Friedrich, his brother, continued the business as a merchant. The building significantly changed its facade on the ground floor in 1920 . At that time it had developed into a shop for linen, linen , beds , bridal and children's outfits . After his death , his wife and daughter carried it away. After the house was destroyed in the air raid on Lübeck on March 29, 1942 , the shop opened at Grosse Burgstrasse 18.

career

After attending the grammar school branch of Katharineum it left Müller Easter 1886 with the matriculation certificate and studied at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg , then went with his passing Bauführerexamen in shipbuilding in the naval career over.

In May 1895 Müller was appointed naval builder and was initially the manager of the Imperial Shipyard in Kiel . From 1899 to 1906 he was assigned to the Friedrich Krupp Germania shipyard in Kiel to supervise the construction of the ships of the line Kaiser Wilhelm der Große , Zähringen , Braunschweig , Hessen , Germany and Schleswig-Holstein . In 1904 he was personally presented with the Red Eagle Order IV class by the Emperor in Kiel .

Subsequently, Müller worked at the Kaiserliche Werft in Kiel until 1909 in the rebuilding of the liner Kaiser Barbarossa and, after his appointment as naval construction officer, he was deputy director of the general scientific department of the shipbuilding department. In addition, he was a lecturer in shipbuilding at the Naval Academy from 1899 to 1908 . The appointment to the naval construction council took place on April 29, 1913.

From 1909 to 1914, Müller was assigned to Berlin as head of department for the construction of the liner construction department of the Reichsmarineamt . He took care of the Nassau , Ostfriesland , Kaiser , König and the replacement Wörth classes .

On April 1, 1914, Müller was transferred to the Kaiserliche Werft in Kiel as operations director for the new ships and test ships .

Even in German sailing, Müller can be certified as being extremely effective. He was a member of the board of the Imperial Yacht Club for 19 years . He has also been successful in the field of sailing yacht building . The successful redesign of the yacht " Meteor ", which was owned by Kaiser Wilhelm II , earned him the far-reaching reputation of a successful sailing yacht designer . Over the years it earned its owner several successes, including in competitions against foreign vehicles.

The price for his work was his bad health. With this in mind, he left the Navy in 1918 and moved to his "beloved" hometown in 1919. There he and his family lived in seclusion at Falkenstrasse 10. His poor health was no longer able to recover. Müller died on Saturday before the first Advent in 1922 and was on the morning of the 7th of December in Lübeck crematorium on the Vorwerker Cemetery cremated and the family grave in the Burgtorfriedhof buried.

family

Müller's family grave

Müller had married Hedwig, née Telzner, from Görkau in Bohemia . The marriage produced a son.

References

Web links

Commons : August Müller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Secret naval building officer August Müller †. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1922/23, No. 2, edition of December 17, 1922, p. 21.
  • Secret naval building officer August Müller †. , in: Lübeckische advertisements . , Volume 172, second sheet, No. 341 of December 7, 1922.
  • Secret naval building officer August Müller †. , in: Lübecker General-Anzeiger , Volume 41, No. 287, edition of December 8, 1922.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pauline came from the Gossmann family from which the later Lübeck consul Gossmann emerged.
  2. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. ( digitized ), p. 90 no. 95
  3. ↑ Local news. , Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 46, No. 26, April 26, 1904, p. 395.
  4. ^ Secret naval building officer August Müller †. , In: Lübeckische advertisements. , Volume 172, second sheet, No. 341 of December 7, 1922.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Johann Friedrich August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Secret naval councilor
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1922
Place of death Lübeck