Eduard Müller (politician, 1818)

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Eduard Müller (born November 15, 1818 in Quilitz near Glogau , † January 6, 1895 in Neisse ) was a Catholic priest and politician from Silesia .

Life

Eduard Müller was ordained a priest in Breslau in 1843 and was then chaplain in Löwenberg in Silesia and religious teacher in Sagan . In 1852 he came to Berlin as a mission vicar , initially with a pastoral assignment for Fürstenwalde and Nauen ; He promoted the establishment of Catholic parishes in and around Berlin, which on the Catholic side were part of the prince-bishop's delegation district for Brandenburg and Pomerania . Together with Adolph Kolping he founded the journeyman's association, later the Kolping Society , for Berlin and became its first president . For decades he lived in an unheated room on the street behind the Catholic Church . The nearby journeyman's house in Niederwallstrasse was a center for workers, socially disadvantaged people and migrants. Müller was one of the founders of the Academic Reading Association in 1853, now K.St.V. Askania-Burgundia Berlin , the first connection of the KV In the same year he took over the editing of the Märkische Kirchenblatt , founded in 1848 , a weekly newspaper for the Catholics in the Mark Brandenburg , from 1863 he also published the Berlin St. Bonifatius calendar .

Müller was a member of the Prussian state parliament and then from 1871 also the German Reichstag for the German Center Party , which he was involved in founding in 1870. At the urging of Prince-Bishop Kopp , who was responsible for Berlin , he resigned his mandate in 1891 and also withdrew from his church duties. Until his death he lived in the monastery of the Gray Sisters in Neisse.

Memorial plaque for Müller on the tower of the Eduardkirche

Because of his pastoral work, Euard Müller Apostolus Berolinensis was called "Apostle Berlin". In his honor the St. Eduard Church in Berlin-Neukölln , built in 1907, was named after his patron saint, St. Eduard the Confessor († 1066) consecrated . After Müller was buried in the old St. Hedwig's cemetery , he found his final resting place in this church in 1920. In 1984 Eduard-Müller-Platz in Berlin-Neukölln was named after him. The Kolping Society of Berlin celebrates Eduard Müller's Day of Remembrance on the day he died, October 13th.

literature

  • Mariarose Fuchs: Eduard Müller. A sketch of his life. In: Heinrich Bachmann (Ed.): The Catholic Berlin. (= Deutsche Illustrierte Rundschau 1) Munich 1929, p. 67f.
  • E. Kolbe: Mission Vicar Eduard Müller. A picture of life. Edited for the best of the construction of a St. Eduard Church for Rixdorf-Britz near Berlin. Publishers of the church building collecting association St. Eduard, Britz, Berlin 1906.
  • Edmund Kreusch: Eduard Müller, the priestly friend of the people. A picture of life. Berlin 1898.
  • Ernst Thrasolt [ie JM Tressel]: Eduard Müller. The Berlin Mission Vicar. A contribution to the history of Catholicism in Berlin, the Mark Brandenburg and Pomerania. Ed. Alfons Erb. Berlin 1953.
  • Adalbert Jurasch (arr.): 1907–2007. 100 years of St. Eduard. Eduard Müller Memorial Church Berlin-Neukölln. Berlin 2007.
  • Michael Dillmann:  Eduard Müller. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 31, Bautz, Nordhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-88309-544-8 .
  • Helmut Neubach:  Eduard Müller. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 357 ( digitized version ).
  • Wolfgang Löhr in Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 6th part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 7). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 2000, ISBN 3-89498-097-4 , p. 74 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical Lexicon of KV Volume 6, p. 76
  2. ^ Lena Krull: Processions in Prussia. Catholic life in Berlin, Breslau, Essen and Münster in the 19th century. Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2013, ISSN  2195-1306 , ISBN 978-3-89913-991-4 (Religion and Politics Volume 5), p. 226f.
  3. ↑ The Berlin missionary vicar Eduard Müller was very committed to the founding of a Catholic parliamentary group - Ulrich Arnold: The founding of the Center Party. Seminar paper 1999, e-book, ISBN 978-3-638-97360-1 (online)
  4. ^ Lena Krull: Processions in Prussia. Catholic life in Berlin, Breslau, Essen and Münster in the 19th century. Würzburg 2013, p. 227.
  5. ^ Eduard-Müller-Platz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  6. ↑ Harald Schwillus, Matthias Brühe: Archdiocese of Berlin - A young diocese with a long tradition. Sadifa Media 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian and politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Quilitz near Glogau
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1895
Place of death Neisse