Hans Müller (politician, 1891)

Hans Müller (born October 4, 1891 in Hasle near Burgdorf ; † December 5, 1988 in Grosshöchstetten ) was a Swiss agricultural politician and agricultural scientist .

Life

Hans Müller grew up with six siblings on an Emmental farm, became a teacher and later a politician. In 1923 he founded the Swiss Association of Abstinent Farmers . Around 1927, he founded the Swiss young peasant movement (also: peasant home movement ), which he led in the sequence. Müller was a member of the Farmers ', Trade and Citizens' Party (BGB) and primarily represented the interests of smallholder agriculture, including 1928 to 1947 as the Swiss National Council . He wanted to secure the livelihood of the farmers who saw themselves threatened by industrial agriculture at the beginning of the 20th century with as closed business cycles as possible and high-quality agricultural products . In 1932 the farmers 'homeland movement opened the farmers' homeland school on the Möschberg near Grosshöchstetten. Because of his radical demands in the area of ​​land law and the support of the crisis initiative of the SP and the trade unions, Müller broke with the BGB in 1935 and the peasant homeland movement split off. In 1937 he was elected to the Presidium of the Guidelines Movement. Due to the stronger involvement of the SP in cantonal and national politics, Müller was increasingly isolated in his opposition role. Because of his authoritarian leadership style and the propagation of a new policy after the collapse of France in 1940, he drew the accusation of Nazi friendliness.

Together with his wife Maria Müller and the bacteriologist Hans Peter Rusch , Müller developed the basics of organic farming in the 1940s and 1950s and thus became a pioneer for ecological agriculture in the German-speaking countries and especially for today's (alongside Demeter ) leading cultivation association Bioland .

literature

• Peter Stettler: Müller, Hans. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Catherine Arber: Frontism and National Socialism in the City of Bern. Much ado, but little success . Bern 2003
• Beat Glaus: The National Front. A Swiss fascist movement 1930–1940 . Zurich, Einsiedeln, Cologne 1969.
• Ulrich Kluge: Agriculture and Rural Society in the 20th Century . Oldenbourg, Munich 2005. ISBN 3-486-56605-9 , ISBN 3-486-56606-7
• Walter Wolf: Fascism in Switzerland. The history of the front movements in German-speaking Switzerland. 1930-1945 . Zurich 1969.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
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