Heinrich von zur Mühlen (ministerial official)
Heinrich Max Friedrich Bernhard von zur Mühlen (born January 27, 1908 in Charlottenhof , Russian Empire ; died July 2, 1994 in Bonn ) was a German ministerial official.
Life
Heinrich von zur Mühlen came from the German-Baltic noble family Von zur Mühlen . He was the son of the Sparkasse director Werner von zur Mühlen and his wife Cary, born von Hoyningen called Huene . The geologist Leo von zur Mühlen was his uncle. Heinrich von zur Mühlen married in 1940 and had two children. His second son is Rainer von zur Mühlen .
Mühlen attended the German private high school in Dorpat and studied history and sociology at the University of Dorpat and in Freiburg im Breisgau from 1927 to 1934 . He joined the NSDAP and the SA in May 1932, and was accepted into the SS in June 1933 .
From September 1934 to April 1935 he worked in the Adjutantur of the Ribbentrop office . In 1936 he was at the University of Leipzig with a dissertation on the history of Reval to Dr. phil. PhD. From August 1936 to February 1937 he worked in the Kursell office, which wanted to bring national politics into line . After that he worked as a freelancer. In August 1938 he got a job as a university assistant at the Geopolitical Institute of the German University of Politics in Berlin . In July 1940 he was accepted into the Foreign Service and from August 1940 headed the map office and from June 1941 the Geographical Service department. At the end of 1941 he was employed in the task force of the Künsberg Sonderkommando in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union for the confiscation of files and cultural property.
From January 1942 Mühlen was a soldier and councilor in the war against the Soviet Union , from June 1942 as a representative of the Foreign Office at Panzer Army High Command 4 . From March 1944 he was appointed by the Foreign Office for Wehrmacht Propaganda to the High Command of the Wehrmacht . In 1946 he was released from British captivity. From February 1949 to March 1951 he was a member of the combat group against inhumanity . He also worked temporarily for the Friedrich Wilhelm Heinz service .
Von zur Mühlen became a consultant at the Federal Ministry for Displaced Persons in Bonn in the Federal Republic of Germany . After the ministry was dissolved, he worked in the Federal Ministry of the Interior from 1969 and was still director of the East German Cultural Council from 1973 to 1974 .
Fonts (selection)
- with Oskar Stavenhagen , Wedig von der Osten-Sacken: Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods . Part 2, Volume 1: Courland. Genealogical handbook of the Courland knighthood . Verl. For genealogy and heraldry, Görlitz 1930.
- Studies on Reval's Ancient History. Establishment - immigration; bourgeois upper class . Sporn, Zeulenroda 1937 (also Phil. Diss. Leipzig)
- Origin and family structure of the British oligarchy with 13 kinship tables . Essener Verl.-Anst., Essen 1941.
- with Gerd Friedrich: The Pankow Soviet Republic and the German West . Red White Papers , Cologne 1953.
- Concentration of forces in the People's Police . In: SBZ-Archiv , 9, 1958, pp. 7-10.
- To preserve the diversity of our culture: work and tasks of the East German cultural institutions . In: The common way . German history and culture in Eastern Europe. Forum for cultural exchange. Westkreuz-Verlag, Bad Münstereifel-Hummerzheim, Volume 6 (1977), pp. 6-12 ISSN 0938-6343
- Building blocks or dynamite? Achievement and promotion of displaced persons and refugees in the Federal Republic of Germany . Gieseking, Bielefeld 1974.
- The family v. zur Mühlen 1792–1980 . Private print, Bonn 1981.
literature
- Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: L – R. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 . P. 297 f.
- Jochen Staadt : A historian failure. The fighting group against inhumanity - disinformation makes history . In: Journal of the SED State Research Association at the Free University of Berlin , No. 33/2013, p. 94 ff.
- Enrico Heitzer: Heinrich von zur Mühlen (1908–1994). Historian, expert on "folklore" and secret service agent . In: Helmut Müller-Enbergs ; Armin Wagner (Ed.): Spies and news dealers: Secret service careers in Germany 1939–1989 . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86153-872-1 , pp. 109–145
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich von zur Mühlen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Heinrich von zur Mühlen in the German biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the person up to 1945 at the Foreign Office, then individual records. The personal details are not consistent at the DNB, see further entry under GND 137656297.
- ↑ Franz Menges: zur Mühlen, from. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , pp. 275-278 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Ulrike Hartung: Raids in the Soviet Union: the Künsberg special command 1941–1943 , Bremen: Ed. Temmen, 1997, pp. 103, 126.
- ↑ See personal details at DNB.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zur Mühlen, Heinrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | To the mills, Heinrich Max Friedrich Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ministerial official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Charlottenhof , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd July 1994 |
| Place of death | Bonn |