Gustav Müller (politician, 1875)

Gustav Müller (born August 8, 1875 in Halberstadt , † June 5, 1946 in Berlin ) was a communist politician.

Life

The metal worker Gustav Müller joined the SPD in 1900 and took on various functions in its Berlin party organization. At the same time he attended various educational institutions for workers . In 1917 Müller joined the USPD , here he belonged to the left wing, which merged with the KPD in 1920 . In 1922, he was party secretary in the province of Brandenburg and the German Communist Party led in the district headquarters Berlin-Brandenburg, the Department of Rural .

The supporters of the party leadership around the “Left” Ruth Fischer and Arkadi Maslow was elected to the Reichstag in May 1924 and to the Prussian state parliament in December of the same year, he was a member of the latter until 1928. After Fischer and Maslow's dismissal in 1925 following Stalin's intervention , he was part of the opposition to the new party leadership around Ernst Thälmann and was expelled from the KPD in May 1927. In April 1928 Müller was elected to the Presidium of the Lenin League together with Hugo Urbahns and Guido Heym .

1933 after the "takeover" of the NSDAP of the was Leninbund active Müller arrested.

literature

• Hermann Weber : The change in German communism. The Stalinization of the KPD in the Weimar Republic. Volume 2. Frankfurt / Main 1969, p. 226.
• Müller, Gustav . In: Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Web links

• Gustav Müller in the database of members of the Reichstag