Georg Alexander von Müller

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Georg Alexander Müller , von Müller since 1900 , (born March 24, 1854 in Chemnitz , † April 18, 1940 in Hangelsberg ) was a German admiral and head of the naval cabinet from 1906 to 1918 .

Georg Alexander von Müller (1916)

Life

origin

He was the son of Carl Alexander Müller (1828–1906) and his wife Clara Therese, née Kurzwelly (1829–1898). Together with his brothers Konrad Alexander and Sven Alexander (1857-1940) he grew up in Sweden, where his father had been the head of the agricultural chemical experimental station of the Royal Swedish Forestry and Agriculture Academy ("Experimentalfaltet") since 1856.

Naval career

After his parents moved to Berlin in 1869, Müller joined the Imperial Navy as a cadet on May 31, 1871, and served there in various positions. At the end of 1874 he served as a lieutenant at sea on the SMS Gazelle . After his promotion to lieutenant at sea , he was commanded to inspect the torpedo system (TI) under Alfred von Tirpitz in 1879 . In 1882 he traveled in the entourage of Prince Heinrich of Prussia on the SMS Olga to the American east coast in order to return to the torpedo department in 1884. After a brief activity as a naval attaché of the German legation in Stockholm (1885), he went from 1886 - meanwhile promoted to lieutenant captain - as flag lieutenant on the SMS Bismarck . In 1889 he was posted to the newly created naval cabinet of the emperor and was then in command of the gunboat SMS Iltis in East Asia from 1891 to October 1892 . After returning home, Müller was in command of the Navy from November 1892 to the end of September 1895 . During this time he was also the commander of the coastal armored ships SMS Frithjof and SMS Hildebrand as corvette captain .

In 1897 Müller accompanied Prince Heinrich of Prussia , whose personal adjutant he had become at the end of September 1895, on his trip to East Asia and in September 1898 took command of the large cruiser SMS Deutschland of the newly formed East Asian cruiser squadron as a frigate captain . At the same time, Müller served as Chief of Staff of the cruiser squadron from October 1899 to early January 1900.

On March 14, 1900, Müller was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility by Kaiser Wilhelm II . Two years later, Müller was appointed head of department in the naval cabinet and during this time, on January 27, 1902, was appointed wing adjutant in the emperor's military entourage. In the same year he accompanied Prince Heinrich on his trip to North America, in order to subsequently do his duty as commander of the liner SMS Wettin . After he had been appointed wing adjutant on duty in September 1904 and was promoted to rear admiral the following year , he was again commanded to the Navy Cabinet, as its chief he was appointed on July 9, 1906 after initial reluctance. A year later he was promoted to Vice Admiral and Adjutant General of the Emperor. Müller, promoted to admiral on August 29, 1910 , led the authority until the immediate position was abolished . On October 29, 1918, one day after the office was subordinated to the Reichsmarineamt, Müller was given leave of absence and put up for disposition a month later .

As head of the naval cabinet, he came into contact not only with technical issues, but also with the court and with many politicians. In his notes he deals intensively with the personality of Wilhelm II.

family

“House Stensjöholm”, Hangelsberg, Berliner Damm 6/7

In 1889 Müller married Elisabeth von Monbart (1868-after 1934), sister of Helene Keßler, nee. by Monbart . The couple had a son, Sven Erich Müller (1893–1964), and two daughters - Johanna Louise (1890–1911) and Karin Elisabeth (* 1895, wife of Emil Georg von Stauß ). He died on April 18, 1940 in Hangelsberg near Fürstenwalde, where he lived in the “Stensjöholm” villa, which has been a listed building since 1993. It was named after the homonymous estate in the Kronobergs Län region in Småland in southern Sweden, which his father had bought in 1886.

Awards

Fonts

  • Did the emperor rule? War diaries, records, and letters 1914–1918. Musterschmidt Verlag, Göttingen 1959 (edited by Walter Görlitz and Sven von Müller).
  • Der Kaiser ... Notes of the Chief of the Naval Cabinet Admiral Georg Alexander v. Müller on the era of Wilhelm II. Musterschmidt Verlag, Göttingen 1965 (edited by Walter Görlitz, includes diary entries from the years before 1914).

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (eds.), Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849-1945. The military careers of naval, engineering, medical, weapons and administrative officers with admiral rank. Volume 2: HO. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1989, ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 , pp. 519-521.
  • Kurt Mühsam: German military leaders in the war 1914. Your becoming and work. 2nd Edition. Volume 2, Conrad Habers Verlag, Berlin 1914.
  • Walter Görlitz (Ed.): The Kaiser ... Notes of the Chief of the Naval Cabinet Admiral Georg Alexander v. Müller on the era of Wilhelm II. Göttingen in 1965.
  • Walter Görlitz: Did the Kaiser rule? War diaries, records and letters from the Chief of the Naval Cabinet Admiral Georg Alexander v. Müller 1914-1918. Göttingen 1959.
  • Walter von Hueck (arrangement): Adelslexikon. Volume 9, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1998, p. 251.
  • Jörg-Uwe Fischer: Admiral of the Emperor. Georg Alexander von Müller as head of the naval cabinet of Wilhelm II. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1992, ISBN 3-631-45166-0 .
  • Frank Nägler :  Müller, Georg Alexander von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 391 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the letter aristocratic houses. 1909. Third year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1902, p. 545.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Svenskt biografiskt lexikon.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w Marine-Kabinett (ed.): Ranking list of the Imperial German Navy for the year 1918. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1918, P. 6.
  3. ↑ Review in Der Spiegel 38/1959.
  4. ^ Review by Wilhelm Treue in Die Zeit 18/1965.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Georg Alexander von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Georg Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German admiral in World War I and chief of the naval cabinet
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1940
Place of death Hangelsberg