Herbert Müller-Bowe

Herbert Müller (from 1934: Herbert Müller-Bowe ) (born July 9, 1896 in Arolsen ; † September 23, 1979 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German local politician of the NSDAP and from 1937 to 1945 Lord Mayor of the city of Eisenach in Thuringia .

life and career

Müller studied economics in Hanover , Göttingen and Frankfurt am Main . With a degree in business administration and economics , he received his doctorate in 1927 . He then worked for the Hanau city ​​administration until 1937 as a magistrate and later as mayor and treasurer .

In 1937 he was appointed mayor in Eisenach by NSDAP district leader Hermann Köhler, where he replaced Fritz Janson ( DVP ). On April 3, 1937, he was solemnly inducted into office at the Wartburg . During Müller-Bowe's tenure, among other things, the establishment of the Hans-Schemm -School named after the Gauleiter of the Bavarian East Markets who died in 1935 (today's Elisabeth-Gymnasium ) in 1938 and the completion of the connection from Eisenach to the Reichsautobahnnetz (1941) also the wanton destruction of the Eisenach synagogue and the deportation of the Eisenach Jews. In the public institutions of the city he carried out the National Socialist race laws .

Shortly before the US troops marched in, Müller-Bowe called on March 27, 1945 to “hold out to the last man”. On March 31, 1945 he retired from office and fled Eisenach on April 2, 1945. On April 4, 1945, Rudolf Lotz was named as his successor by NSDAP district leader Köhler . After the end of the war, Müller-Bowe was interned temporarily and after his release he lived in Rinteln , Hanau and later in Frankfurt am Main. In the President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Office Files, 1933-1945 , Müller-Bowe is listed as a leading German National Socialist ( Key Nazi ).

He was married and had one child.

literature

• Günter Wenzel: Eisenach 1945–1952: the emergence of new local organs of power in the Wartburg city of Eisenach , edition 42 of Eisenacher Schriften zur Heimatkunde, Eisenach-Information, 1989, pp. 6, 9

Web links

• Herbert Müller-Bowe on Eisenach.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of Eisenach , accessed on February 28, 2013
2. ↑ http://www.autobahngeschichte.de , accessed on March 1, 2013
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4. ↑ President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Office Files, 1933–1945 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 4.3 MB)