Gerhard Müller (politician, 1882)

Gerhard Müller (called Paul Müller ; born September 12, 1882 in Völlenerkönigsfehn ; † May 6, 1953 in Sandkrug ) was a German politician ( KPD ). He was a member of the Oldenburg State Parliament .

Life

Müller was the son of a Christian working-class family. He completed an apprenticeship as a coppersmith . From 1913 to 1932 he worked as a plumber in Oldenburg and in 1934/35 as a coppersmith.

Since 1902 he was a member of the German Metalworkers Association as well as a co-founder and from 1924 chairman of the paying office of the Metalworkers Association in Oldenburg. In 1902 he also joined the SPD . Müller was a soldier in World War I and was imprisoned for his anti-militarist attitudes. In 1918 he joined the Spartakusbund and has been a member of the KPD since it was founded. He worked as a polling officer for the KPD in Oldenburg. Müller was briefly a member of the KAPD in 1920 , then belonged again to the KPD from 1921. He was the head of the KPD sub-district Oldenburg and a member of the KPD district leadership Northwest. From 1922 to 1933 Müller was a city councilor in Oldenburg. In 1922 he was elected to the Oldenburg Landtag for the first time, to which he was a member until 1924. Between 1928 and 1932 he was again a member of the state parliament. Müller was one of the most famous state parliament members of the KPD in Oldenburg. He played a major role in the motion for and implementation of the referendum to dissolve the state parliament. The greatest beneficiary of the new elections on May 29, 1932 was the NSDAP , which won the absolute majority of the seats, while Müller lost his state parliament mandate.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Müller was arrested in March 1933 and imprisoned for some time. After he was released, he was under police supervision. He was arrested several times during the Nazi dictatorship, most recently after the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944, for several months in the Gestapo prison in Oldenburg- Osternburg .

After 1945 he was again a member of the Oldenburg district assembly for the KPD.

literature

• Günter Heuzeroth : Persecuted for political reasons. Resistance and persecution of the regional labor movement in documents, life reports and analyzes presented on the events in Weser-Ems 1933–1945 . (= Under the tyranny of National Socialism , Volume 1). Druck- & Verlagscooperative, Osnabrück 1989, ISBN 3-925713-02-6 , p. 219f.
• Müller, Paul (Gerhard) . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .