August Müller (politician, 1905)

August Müller ( January 1905 - November 17, 1997 in Siegburg ) was a German politician ( NSDAP , FDP ). From 1938 to 1944 he was mayor of the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Königswinter .

Life

From May 10, 1920, Müller worked for the district municipal administration of the Waldbröl district . Between 1923 and 1925 he was a member of the German National Freedom Party ; then he joined the NSDAP on August 7, 1925 (membership number 13,256), which he left again in 1929. With the dissolution of the Waldbröl district, he was taken over by the district administration of the Siegkreis , also for an activity in local government. After the National Socialist seizure of power , Müller rejoined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 ( membership number 2.125.868). On July 1, 1934, he took over the management of the district office for civil servants. In June 1938 he became mayor of the city of Königswinter after the previous incumbent Heinrich Lorenz had been arrested and sentenced; He continued to head the district office for civil servants at the new location. After the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, Müller led the local branch of the NSDAP as a substitute. In April 1943 he was called up for military service, which he completed in an army coastal artillery regiment in Norway . His successor as mayor was temporarily Paul Wilhelm Müller in September 1944.

After the war ended, Müller settled in Siegburg. From October 15, 1945 until the end of 1947 he was interned due to his previous role as NSDAP local group leader . As a member of the Political Leadership Corps , Müller was sentenced to a fine of 3,000 Reichsmarks by the Spruchkammer in Recklinghausen . As part of the denazification process , he was initially classified in Category III (less polluted) on February 27, 1948, then on March 5, 1948 in Category IV (fellow travelers) and finally on March 23, 1949 in Category V (unencumbered) . The latter decision was also revised on July 27, 1949 and Müller was reassigned to Category IV.

Müller resumed his political activities in 1948 when he joined the FDP. From 1952 he worked for a building materials wholesaler in Siegburg. From September 1952 Müller was managing director of the Siegburg district association of his party, and in the same year he was elected to the district assembly for the FDP. From 1953 on he was for her a member of the Regional Assembly of the Regional Association of the Rhineland . In 1958 he became an honorary administrative judge at the Münster Higher Administrative Court . In 1961 Müller took over the district chairmanship of the FDP. From 1964 until the municipal reorganization of the Bonn area on August 1, 1969, Müller was deputy district administrator of the Siegkreis and during this time also acted as a factual advisor to the city of Siegburg with regard to the municipal reorganization. He was also involved in the German Association of Officials , within which he founded the Association of Retired Officials and Survivors and headed it as state chairman for many years. At the age of 85, Müller donated his library to the city of Siegburg. A reception planned by the city on the occasion of his 90th birthday, to which the then mayor Rolf Krieger had invited him, did not take place due to the publication of Müller's Nazi past and his subsequent cancellation.

Honors

May 29, 1974: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
1982: Silver honor plate of the city of Siegburg

literature

Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 638–640 (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Ansgar Sebastian Klein: Rise and rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge
↑ ^a ^b The history of the Siebengebirge area at a glance , Heimatverein Siebengebirge eV
↑ ^a ^b Katrin Herrmann: Invitation to the reception became a political issue . In: General-Anzeiger , Bonn city edition . January 11, 1995, p. 10 .
^ Party dispute in Siegburg about Müller's Nazi past . In: General-Anzeiger , Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (on the right bank of the Rhine) . January 12, 1995, p. 6 .
↑ Office of the Federal President

personal data
SURNAME	Müller, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (NSDAP, FDP), mayor of Koenigswinter
DATE OF BIRTH	January 1905
DATE OF DEATH	November 17, 1997
Place of death	Siegburg

[Klein2008-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Ansgar Sebastian Klein: Rise and rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge

[Heimatverein-2] The history of the Siebengebirge area at a glance , Heimatverein Siebengebirge eV

[GA19950111-3] Katrin Herrmann: Invitation to the reception became a political issue . In: General-Anzeiger , Bonn city edition . January 11, 1995, p. 10 .

[4] Party dispute in Siegburg about Müller's Nazi past . In: General-Anzeiger , Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (on the right bank of the Rhine) . January 12, 1995, p. 6 .

[5] Office of the Federal President