Fred Mueller

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Fred Müller (born July 8, 1913 in Pavlovsk (Saint Petersburg) , Russian Empire ; † October 11, 2001 in Berlin ) was a German communist , interbrigadist , officer in the German People's Police and sports functionary in the GDR . He was head of the German Sports Committee .

Life

The son of a businessman and owner came an orthopedic shoe store in St. Petersburg and a Russian in 1920 with his family to Frankfurt and learned after visiting the elementary and the secondary school the profession of orthopedic technician . In 1932 he became a member of the KPD and from 1933 did illegal anti-fascist work. From 1935 to 1937 he was imprisoned "for preparation for high treason". He then went to Spain via Paris and fought as a sergeant and political functionary in the international brigades. After his return to France in January 1939 he was interned and extradited to Germany in 1941. He was sentenced to five years in prison, which he had to serve in Ludwigsburg.

After his return to Frankfurt am Main in 1945 he became active again in the KPD and worked as a representative of the KPD in the denazification commission for Germany as a whole. In 1946 he went to the Soviet occupation zone , became a member of the SED and initially headed the state youth school of the FDJ in Mecklenburg. From 1946 to 1949 he was a member of the central council of the FDJ and from 1948 to 1949 chairman of the FDJ state association Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (successor to Waldemar Borde ).

In 1949 he went to the German People's Police and was for a short time VP Inspector (Colonel), Deputy Chief and Head of Political Culture of the VP State Authority Mecklenburg in Schwerin. As such, he had an appearance on June 4, 1949 at the head of a VP department at the III. Parliament of the FDJ in Leipzig. After attending the SED party college in Kleinmachnow, he was head of the German Sports Committee from 1951 to 1952 (successor to Ernst Horn ). From 1953 to 1957 he acted as first secretary of the SED company party organization (BPO) of the Horch and Sachsenring works in Zwickau . During this time he completed an economics degree in 1956 and acquired the qualification of a motor vehicle engineer.

From May 1957 to 1961 he was again an officer and, with the rank of colonel, deputy head of the main department for political work in the command of the German Border Police (successor to Hans Gossens). During his service, he began studying at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED in Berlin in 1960 and was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. After his habilitation, he was appointed full professor for Marxist-Leninist ethics at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1963 .

From 1959 to 1967 he was President of the German Sports Association Modern Pentathlon and at the same time a member of the DTSB federal board.

From 1963 to 1965 he worked as an advisor to the Cuban Minister of Education for the introduction of socio-political studies at the three universities in Havana , Santa Clara and Santiago de Cuba . He then was Professor of Historical Materialism from 1965 to 1976. At times he was the successor to Walter Bartel, Vice-Rector of Humboldt University. In 1976 he retired.

After reunification, Müller was a member of the PDS and, most recently, the DKP .

Awards

literature

  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 234.
  • Short biography for:  Müller, Fred . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Müller, Fred , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (eds.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economics, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 511

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Protocol No. 19/57 of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED of April 29, 1957 - Federal Archives
  2. ^ Portrait and interview in Neues Deutschland from April 10, 1965
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communist, resistance fighter, police officer and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Pavlovsk (Saint Petersburg)
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 2001
Place of death Berlin