Heinrich Müller (lawyer)

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Heinrich Josef Philipp Müller , nickname Heinz , (born June 7, 1896 in Pasing , † April 27, 1945 in Potsdam ) was a German lawyer , administrative officer, SS group leader and politician ( NSDAP ). He was Lord Mayor of Darmstadt , President of the Reich Audit Office and State Minister of Hesse. He is not to be confused with the head of the secret state police and SS group leader Heinrich Müller .

Life

Heinrich Müller was the son of the government director of the South German Railway Administration Friedrich Müller (1862-1934) and his wife Karolina (* 1862), née Nothelfer. He was a Catholic denomination. Müller attended humanistic grammar schools in Weiden (Upper Palatinate), Regensburg and Würzburg. After the outbreak of World War I , he joined the German army as a volunteer and suffered a serious war injury in January 1915. He then completed a degree in Law and Economics at the University of Würzburg and received his doctorate for Dr. jur. et. rer pol. in December 1920. He had started his legal traineeship in July 1920 and joined the Reich Finance Administration in November 1922 as an assessor. On May 30, 1925, he married in Dorlar Hedwig (1899-1945), née Marx. The couple had two sons and two daughters.

After the end of the war, Müller was a member of the Würzburg Freikorps from 1919 and took part in battles against Soviet rule in Munich . He joined the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund in 1920 and became a member of the NSDAP for the first time on February 1, 1921. For the NSDAP he appeared as a speaker and cooperated closely with the Gauleiter for Lower Franconia Otto Hellmuth .

His membership ended after the NSDAP was banned. After the re-establishment of the NSDAP in 1925, he rejoined the party ( membership number 343.344) in November 1930 and was thus considered an old fighter in the NSDAP propaganda . Shortly afterwards he became local group leader of Alsfeld , in October 1931 district officer department head and in January 1932 district leader in Alsfeld. Müller advised the Hessian Gauleiter Jakob Sprenger on questions of civil service law and made a name for himself in Nazi circles. From 1931, Müller also belonged to the SA .

From 1931 to 1933 Müller was a member of the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse , and from 1933 he was President of the Landtag there. After the " seizure " of the Nazis, he was in the course of Gleichschaltung on 6 March 1933 Reich Commissioner for the People's State of Hesse. From March 13, 1933 he was Hessian Minister of State for the Interior, Justice and Finance until he took over the office of Lord Mayor of Darmstadt in mid-May 1933 . From the beginning of February 1934, Müller was again active in the Reich Finance Administration and became Director of the State Tax Office of Hesse and, the following year, Chief Finance President in Cologne .

On April 20, 1938, Müller changed from the SA to the Allgemeine SS (SS-No. 290.936), into which he was accepted as an SS-Standartenführer in the SD main office . In the SS he rose to SS-Gruppenführer on November 9, 1943 . Furthermore, he was a member of the Advisory Council on Population and Racial Policy at the Reich Ministry of the Interior and was involved in the Reich leadership of the NSDAP . Müller was a member of the Academy for German Law and was on the board of the German Municipal Association . He chaired the supervisory board of Deutsche Revisions- und Treuhand AG, trust company for municipal enterprises, in Berlin. Müller published the series Political Biology .

From mid-1938 Müller was President of the Reich Court of Audit and the Prussian Chamber of Accounts in Potsdam . According to Dommach / Franz, Müller tried “to redefine the constitutional position of the central financial control in the National Socialist state and to assert the right of control against those institutions of the state and the party that saw the audit office as a superfluous relic from the Weimar period or their own Wanted to expand the control apparatus and evade the audit by the audit office. Müller claimed for his authority a share in the "leadership power" and advocated a change in the function of the audit: the audit office should limit its control function in the classic administrations and strengthen its advisory activities for new administrations. After the beginning of the war, he experienced a considerable expansion of auditing activities through the extension of control powers to the administrations in the occupied territories. "

In the course of taking Potsdam by the Red Army Müller and his wife on April 27, 1945 committed suicide and took three of her children to death.

Fonts

  • Civil service and National Socialism , Eher-Verlag , Munich 1931 (9th editions published until 1933)
  • Implementation provisions of the Civil Service Income Act (BDEG) of December 17, 1920: Preuss. Salary regulations (PBV) of July 8, 1921 , Wirtschaftsverl., Berlin 1921 (together with Emil Ebersbach )
  • Prussian civil service salary regulations , Wirtschaftsverlag., Berlin 1920 (together with Emil Ebersbach)

literature

  • Hermann A. Dommach, Eckhart G. Franz :  Müller, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 406 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , pp. 271-272.
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 614.
  • Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , pp. 192–193.
  • Rainer Weinert: The cleanliness of the administration during the war. The Court of Auditors of the German Reich 1938-1946 , Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1993, ISBN 3531124536 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Full name after Friedrich Schütz : The seizure of power by the National Socialists in Mainz in 1933: a documentation. Source volume for the exhibition of the City of Mainz January to March 1983 , City of Mainz, 1983, p. 168
  2. ^ Lengemann, page 271.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Dommach, Hermann A .; Franz, Eckhart G., “Müller, Heinrich”, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 18 (1997), pp. 406–407 online version .
  4. ^ A b Rainer Weinert: The cleanliness of the administration in the war. The Court of Audit of the German Reich 1938–1946 , Opladen 1993, p. 63.
  5. ^ The archive: reference work for politics, economics, culture, issues 52–54, O. Stollberg., 1938, p. 576.
  6. ↑ a b Müller on the list of SS group leaders on http://www.dws-xip.pl
  7. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 420
  8. ^ A b Rainer Weinert: The cleanliness of the administration in the war. The Court of Audit of the German Reich 1938–1946 , Opladen 1993, p. 64.
  9. ↑ a b "Müller, Heinrich". Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  10. ^ Rainer Weinert: The cleanliness of the administration in the war. The Court of Audit of the German Reich 1938–1946 , Opladen 1993, p. 67.
  11. ↑ Erich Stockhorst : 5000 heads. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 , p. 300.
  12. ↑ Quoted in: Dommach, Hermann A .; Franz, Eckhart G., “Müller, Heinrich”, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 18 (1997), pp. 406–407 online version
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Heinrich Josef Philipp (full name); Müller, Heinz (first name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, administrative officer and politician (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Pasing
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1945
Place of death Potsdam