Hellmuth Müller (detective)

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Curt Hellmuth Müller or Curt Helmuth Müller (* before 1910 , † after 1951 ) was a German detective.

Live and act

After attending school, Müller embarked on a career in the police force. In 1930 he became head of the identification service in the Prussian State Criminal Police Office in Berlin. Due to frequent confusion with Johannes Hermann Müller , who was a senior official of the murder commission in Berlin at the time ("Mord-Müller"), Müller was nicknamed "Identifier Müller" by the police.

After the fire in the Reichstag on February 28, 1933, Müller, then detective inspector, was entrusted with securing fingerprints in the Reichstag building. Due to this activity he later appeared as an expert before the Reichsgericht during the Reichstag fire trial .

Later Müller was that of Arthur Nebe guided Reichskriminalpolizeiamt added, in which he derive the leadership of the Reich recognition service center. In January 1938, Müller, at that time with the rank of criminal investigator, played a decisive role in the events that led to the overthrow of Reich Minister of War Werner von Blomberg : on January 21, 1938 he received a broadcast of pornographic images from his colleague Gerhard Nauck von der Sitte for identification purposes Evaluation sent. In one of these pictures, Müller finally identified Margarethe Gruhn, who had recently married the Minister of War. This information finally reached Adolf Hitler via intermediate stops , who used it to remove Blomberg from his office and to acquire the decisive powers of the Minister of War himself in order to further increase his personal power.

After the establishment of the Reich Main Security Office , Müller took over as SS-Sturmbannführer and criminal director of the local department VC 1 (Reich Detection Service Center), which was housed in Department VC (Identification Service and Search) of Office Group V ("Combating Crimes - Reich Criminal Police Office").

In the final phase of the Second World War , Müller was the last criminal police chief in Königsberg . After the end of the war he was interned temporarily by the Allies. In the first post-war years he was u. a. held in camps in Vorbach and Darmstadt. After his release, Müller was unemployed until at least the 1950s.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IfZ: Witness literature Johannes Hermann Müller .
  2. ↑ Alexander Bahar : The Nazis and the Reichstag fire, in: Dieter Deiseroth (Ed.): The Reichstag fire and the trial before the Reichsgericht. Publishing company carpenter. Berlin 2006, pp. 145–195, here p. 164.
  3. ↑ " Coup against the Wehrmacht. New revelations about the Blomberg / Fritsch 1938 case ”, in: Der Spiegel from September 2, 1974.
  4. ↑ " Kripo. Revolverharry for Bonn ”, in: Der Spiegel of March 14, 1951.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Hellmuth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Curt Hellmuth; Müller, Curt Helmuth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German detective
DATE OF BIRTH before 1910
DATE OF DEATH after 1951