Georg Wilhelm Müller (SS member)

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Müller standing at a press conference with Vidkun Quisling (right), Berlin, February 14, 1942

Georg Wilhelm Müller (born December 29, 1909 in Königshütte , Upper Silesia , † April 30, 1989 in Hamburg ), often called GW Müller , was a German National Socialist student leader, propagandist, SS-Oberführer and close collaborator of Joseph Goebbels .

Life

He became a member of the NSDAP on December 29, 1927 ( membership number 74,380) and in 1930 a member of the SS (SS number 3,554). Previously he was supposedly active in the SA from the age of 16 (around 1925) , but left the SA in late 1930 in favor of the SS. After graduating from Kaiser-Friedrich-Gymnasium (today Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium ) in Frankfurt am Main he studied law at the universities of Rostock, Marburg and Kiel from 1929, and from 1930 in Frankfurt. His National Socialist activity prevented a desired military career.

As leader of the National Socialist German Student Union at the University of Frankfurt am Main and from 1933 as the self-proclaimed “leader of the student body” he was largely responsible for the Nazification of the university in 1933. The National Socialist German Student Union had previously described the University of Frankfurt as a “stronghold of Jewish impudence and Marxist insolence”, and Müller therefore proceeded particularly fanatically to rigorously purge the “Jewish and liberal” University of Frankfurt. Among other things, students were forcibly integrated into the SS or SA. Müller complained that the majority of Frankfurt students were "indifferent or Marxist" at the time of the seizure of power . In May 1933, Müller also organized actions against Jewish lawyers at the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court .

In 1933 he became a trainee lawyer at the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main. From 1934 on, he made a career in press work for the NSDAP, initially as a press officer at the Gauleitung Hessen-Nassau. Joseph Goebbels wrote about him in his diary on November 27, 1936: "His name is Müller, but makes a good impression." In 1937 he became Goebbels' personal advisor in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and was considered a particularly close confidante of his boss. During the Second World War he was from April 1940 to March 1945 head of the main department for public enlightenment and propaganda in the Reichskommissariat Norway , first as a ministerial advisor and from 1943 as a ministerial director . He became Oberführer of the General SS and Untersturmführer of the Waffen SS .

Müller was considered a "fanatical National Socialist" and a "particularly tough old fighter ."

He was classified as exonerated during the denazification process . After the war he worked as a businessman in Hamburg, his exact position is unknown.

He was married to Lotte Müller, who was also a staunch National Socialist.

Awards

Works

literature

  • Petra Bonavita: The career of the Frankfurt Nazi student leader Georg-Wilhelm Müller . In: Nassauische Annalen , 115, 2004, pp. 441-460
  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 379.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bernd Heidenreich, Sönke Neitzel : Media in National Socialism . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76710-3 , pp. 70-80
  2. ↑ Frankfurt scientists between 1933 and 1945 , p. 240
  3. ↑ a b Media in National Socialism, p. 70
  4. ^ Gerda Stuchlik: Goethe in the brown shirt: University of Frankfurt, 1933-1945 . Röderberg-Verlag, 1984, p. 123
  5. ↑ Goebbels Diaries [Reuth], Vol. 3, p. 1013
  6. ↑ Norsk krigsleksikon 1940–1945 . Cappelen, Oslo 1995, ISBN 82-02-14138-9 , p. 280, urn : nbn: no-nb_digibok_2010113005006 (access only with an IP address from Norway)
  7. ^ Robert Bohn: Reichskommissariat Norway: "National Socialist Reorganization" and War Economy . Oldenbourg Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-59608-3 , p. 63 ( google.de [accessed on January 10, 2020]).
  8. ↑ Hannes Lewalter: “The fight is tough. We are tougher! ”- The representation of German soldiers in the mirror of the image propaganda of the two world wars and the construction of the“ New Hero ” . Dissertation, University of Tübingen 2010, p. 181 ( DNB )
  9. ↑ Wilfred von Oven: Who was Goebbels ?: Biography from the vicinity , p. 312, Herbig, 1987
  10. ^ Bonavita p. 460
  11. ↑ Oddvar Munksgaard, Sven Dysthe: Gestapo cameras . Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Oslo 1973, p. 178
  12. ↑ Petra Bonavita: Non-Aryans are asked to leave the lecture hall. In: Research Frankfurt 1-2004. Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, February 2004, accessed on January 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Georg Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German National Socialist student leader, propagandist and SS-Oberführer
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigshütte
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1989
Place of death Hamburg