Friedrich Theodor Müller (politician, 1811)

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Friedrich Ludwig Theodor Müller (born May 4, 1811 in Ehrenbreitstein , † December 4, 1893 in Berlin ) was a Prussian civil servant and politician.

“To the land” - appeal by the delegates around Friedrich Harkort on November 14, 1848, also signed by Müller.

Live and act

The son of a lawyer attended high school in Cologne and then studied law in Bonn and Heidelberg from 1829 to 1832 . During his studies he became a member of the old Bonn fraternity in 1829 . He completed his legal clerkship and assessor time at the regional court in Cologne. He was then state procurator there , from 1838 in Saarbrücken and from 1840 again in Cologne. Afterwards Müller was police director and district administrator in Cologne. As such, he allowed Karl Marx to return from exile in 1848 .

During the revolution of 1848 Müller was at the beginning of the German National Assembly as a representative of the 18th constituency of the Rhineland ( Gummersbach ) from May 18 to June 16, 1848, for a short time non-attached member of the Paulskirche in Frankfurt .

He was then a member of the Prussian National Assembly for the constituency of Siegen as the successor to a resigned MP from November 1848 . There he belonged to the Harkort faction (right center). He was one of the MPs who accepted the transfer of the National Assembly to Brandenburg and the imposition of a constitution. He signed an appeal to the country that was circulated as a poster to justify this step. From 1849 to 1850 he was a member of the second chamber of the Prussian state parliament , where he belonged to the left parliamentary group.

From 1848 to 1866 he was Undersecretary of State in the Prussian Ministry of Justice and then retired. From 1867 to 1876 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives for the National Liberal Party .

Friedrich Theodor Müller died in Berlin in 1893 at the age of 82 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

literature

  • Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical manual of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. Droste, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-0919-3 , p. 245.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 147-148.
  • Klaus Herdepe : The Prussian Constitutional Question 1848 . Neuried 2002. ISBN 3-936117-22-5 . P. 180
  • Wilfried Reininghaus / Axel Eilts: Fifteen months of the revolution. The province of Westphalia from March 1848 to May 1849 . In: Wilfried Reinighaus / Horst Conrad (ed.): For freedom and law. Westphalia and Lippe in the revolution of 1848/49 . Münster 1999. ISBN 3-402-05382-9 . P.56.
  • Bärbel Holtz (Ed.): The Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38. Vol. 4 / II. (1848-1858) . Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2003. ISBN 3-487-11825-4 ( Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences [Ed.]: Acta Borussica . New series .)

Web links

  • Prussian official press , amtspresse.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 306.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Friedrich Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Friedrich Ludwig Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian civil servant and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Ehrenbreitstein
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1893
Place of death Berlin