Franz Friedrich Müller

Franz Friedrich Müller (born October 26, 1812 in Zell (Mosel) ; † March 2, 1856 in ibid.) Was a German squire, postal expedition and member of parliament .

origin

Franz Friedrich Müller was a son of Carl Ludwig Müller (1784–1842) from Koblenz and his wife Maria Anna Clara Reineri (1778–1821). The father was an imperial tax collector in the Napoleonic era, after 1815 a royal clerk and a mail expedition in Zell. The mother was a daughter of the wealthy family of Benedikt Reineri (1725-1794), an electoral special collector, clerk and the last hereditary estate of the Wadgassener Hof in Kaimt .

Life

As a young man, in addition to farming with many horses, Müller ran the post office in Zell. As a private entrepreneur, the Koblenz post office had given him a temporary contract for this purpose and at the same time entrusted him with the entire mail transport of the station. As head of the postal expedition, Müller was also a paid civil servant and from 1842 he regularly drove the carriol post between Zell and Kastellaun . Here the postal system was looked after by the Peters family from 1778 and from 1819 by the postal agent and grocer Wilhelm Peters, whose daughter Anna Maria Peters Müller later married.

politics

Friedrich Müller was elected to the Prussian National Assembly on July 10, 1848 after the resignation of the Trier lawyer Heinrich Mittweg as deputy member for the constituency of Zell , where he replaced the liberal member Johann Baptist Grach . In Berlin he met the 118-member Waldeck parliamentary group, and in the House of Representatives he took his place on the extreme left. In his family, Müller was characterized as “ a highly gifted and ideally disposed man, whom the trust of his fellow citizens brought to the House of Representatives as a representative of the rights ”. In Berlin he also met the democrat Josef Erasmus Graeff , also from Zell , who had stood as a representative for the Trier-Land district . In the House of Representatives, Müller argued with opposition officials, Catholic clergy and unruly lawyers against the power of the absolute military state for democratic principles in legislation and administration. He voted for the abolition of the death penalty and on September 28, 1848 he called for an urgent debate on the abolition of the wine tax , which had brought Moselle winemakers to the edge of their subsistence level.

In October 1848, after Müller had in the meantime moved closer to the moderate left of the Rodbertus faction , further meetings took place. However, these meetings ended on November 15, 1848, when the military, under the leadership of the Prussian Field Marshal Friedrich von Wrangel, marched with his standing troops against revolutionary Berlin and finally dispersed the remaining assemblies. Before that, however, it had been decided in a hurry that the government would not be entitled to levy taxes as long as parliament could not fulfill its duty. The principle of tax refusal had therefore been chosen as a passive means of resistance . After the forced departure from Berlin, Müller returned home on November 29, 1848. In the elections for the Prussian House of Representatives on February 5, 1849, Müller was re-elected as a member of the expanded constituency of Zell-Cochem-Adenau with 163 votes to 91. In the Second Chamber he voted with a majority for the recognition of the Frankfurt Imperial Constitution , whereupon the Chamber was dissolved on April 27, 1849. In the electoral term , which lasted only two months , Müller had two opportunities to speak on electoral examinations as a speaker in his department. Although he had already advocated the interests of the Moselle winemakers and the abolition of the wine tax in the National Assembly, the finance commission of which he was a member had discussed the abolition, but then rejected it entirely.

After the democratic delegates traveled back to their constituencies in their home country, the Rhenish City Council called on May 8, 1849 for the implementation of the imperial constitution. On May 13th, 1849, the largest people's assembly took place at Marienburg. More than 5000 participants attended. a. had called to the Prümer Zeughaussturm in order to support the Reich constitution campaign militarily. As a result, the local public prosecutor's office summoned the participants to neighboring Reil for questioning on May 20, 1849 . It was not neglected to take action against former MPs with civil servant status on the grounds that political immunity would only apply to their activities in Parliament. Friedrich Müller was then dismissed from his civil service as a mail expedition in May 1849. The real reasons for this, even on request, and although he was acquitted of the indictment of rioting, had never been given to him.

family

Friedrich Müller was married to Maria Anna Peters (1818–1847), a daughter of the postman Wilhelm Peters from Kastellaun . However, the young wife died on June 3, 1847 in childbed and with her the child. In his second marriage, he was with Caroline Walburga Utsch (1826–1899), a daughter of the royal chief forester Franz Anton Utsch and his wife Anna Maria, born on September 9, 1850. Ramboux from Trier married. After his early death at the age of 43, shortly before the birth of his first daughter Anna, the widow Müller, who was a cousin of his first wife, continued to run the post office and the estate under her nickname Post-Millisch .

literature

• Alfons Friderichs (Ed.): Müller, Franz Friedrich , In: "Personalities of the Cochem-Zell District" , Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , pp. 251-252.
• H.-Günther Böse: The first democratic elections in the Zell district in 1848/49. In: Heimatjahrbuch Cochem-Zell , 1995, pp. 239–248.

Web links

• Entry on Franz Friedrich Müller in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} H.-Günther Böse: The first democratic elections in the Zell district in 1848/49. In: Heimatjahrbuch Cochem-Zell , 1995, pp. 239–248
2. ↑ H. Mittweg Zell, Stenographic Reports on the Negotiations of the Assembly Called to Agree on the Prussian State Constitution. First volume. First through thirty-eighth sessions, May 22 through August 11, 1848 in Google Book Search