Bruno Müller (politician, 1883)

Bruno Müller (born December 5, 1883 in Olbernhau ; † June 3, 1960 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) was a German politician ( SPD , KPD , SED ) and resistance fighter against war and militarism .

Life

Bruno Müller is the son of a locksmith ; after attending elementary school, he learned the profession of carpenter . After completing his training, he went on a hike . From 1903 to 1905 he was recruited for military service and then worked as a carpenter in Berlin until 1907 . He organized himself in a union and was a member of the SPD from 1905.

After further years of wandering, he settled in Deutschneudorf in the Ore Mountains near his hometown at the end of 1909 , where he became the representative of the German Woodworkers 'Association (DHV) and reporter for the workers' newspaper Erzgebirgische Volksstimme .

In 1913 he moved to the community of Blumenthal / Unterweser in the Blumenthal district and worked on the Bremer Vulkan , a large shipyard in Vegesack .

In August 1914 he was mobilized as a soldier because he was one of the Social Democrats who spoke out loudly and publicly against the imperialist war . He was posted to the front in Galicia. In July 1915, while advancing on Lublin, he suffered such a serious injury that a long hospital stay in Breslau was necessary, where he passed the master craftsman's examination in the arts and crafts school. In April 1917 he was "reclaimed" as a draftsman and technician by the Vulkan shipyard involved in warship construction.

Müller organized himself with the International Communists of Germany (IKD), who vehemently opposed any support for the war. On November 4, 1918, Müller was one of the founders of the IKD local group Vegesack , which elected him as chairman and at the end of 1918 delegated him together with Comrade Reinicke to the founding party conference of the KPD in Berlin.

After the military crackdown on the Bremen Soviet Republic , voluntary corps associations also moved into Vegesack, so that Müller, as an active member of the Soviet Republic , had to flee for the Vegesack economic area. He went to Braunschweig, where he joined the Red Wehr organized by Heinrich Dorrenbach .

In September 1919, Müller took part in the second party conference of the KPD in Heidelberg . In 1920 he became a board member of the KPD in Bremen and was managing director of the Bremer KPD newspaper Der Kommunist for two years . At the end of 1921 he moved to Chemnitz.

In 1933 Müller took part in the resistance against the Nazi regime. He was therefore arrested on November 8, 1933; it was sentenced to 14 months in prison. After he was released, he was under police supervision.

In June 1945 Müller was appointed KPD secretary in Altchemnitz; from 1946 he was there for a few years chairman of the SED district organization.

Fonts (selection)

• Biggest scoundrel in history. A long farewell to the SPD: memories of a left-wing radical from Bremen of the First World War and the founding party conference of the KPD. In: Forward and don't forget. Experience reports of active participants in the November Revolution 1918/19. Dietz-Verlag: Berlin 1958

literature

• Peter Kuckuk (ed.): The revolution 1918/1919 in Bremen. Articles and documents. Contributions to the social history of Bremen, issue 27. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2010. ISBN 978-3-8378-1001-1 .
• Ulrich Schröder: Councilors and “socialist republic” in the Bremen port city of Vegesack and in the Blumenthal district (November 1918 to 1921). In: Peter Kuckuk, with the assistance of Ulrich Schröder: Bremen in the German Revolution 1918–1919. Revolution, Räterepublik, Restauration , 2nd, revised and expanded edition, Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2017, ISBN 978-3-95494-115-5 .
• Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst (Ed.): German Communists: Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-320-02044-7 , p. 515 f.

Web links

• https://www.bundesstiftung-aufteilung.de/wer-war-wer-in-der-ddr-%2363%3B-1424.html?ID=4805