Herbert Müller-Werth

Herbert Müller-Werth (born September 21, 1900 in Wiesbaden ; † August 12, 1983 ibid) was a German historian, archivist and editor.

Herbert Müller-Werth was the son of the military doctor Oskar Müller, who died shortly after his birth. Because of the function of his stepfather Otto Werth in various local governments, Müller-Werth grew up in Essen, from 1910 in Gotha and from 1913 in Biebrich . He graduated from the Riehlschule there in 1920. This was followed by a banking apprenticeship in Magdeburg and a degree in political science and law in Jena, where he received his doctorate in 1924 with a thesis on economic history.

At the beginning of 1925 he took up a position as editor of the Neue Wiesbadener Zeitung . In 1929 he switched to the Westfälische Zeitung in Bielefeld as a political editor . In 1941 he lost this position for political reasons and returned to Wiesbaden. There he became assistant director of the Glyco-Metall-Werke . In January 1949 he moved to the Wiesbaden city administration, initially as a press officer, from 1951 as head of the city archive. In 1965 he retired from this position.

In academic and journalistic terms, Herbert Müller-Werth dealt in particular with German foreign policy in the 19th and 20th centuries and the history of Wiesbaden. In 1957 he published the memoirs of the former German Foreign Minister Friedrich Rosen and published other works on Rosen. In local history, Müller-Werth dealt, among other things, with the local press history and early on with the events of the 20th century, including the separatist movement after the First World War and Wiesbaden in the “Third Reich”.

In 1950 Herbert Müller-Wendt was appointed to the Historical Commission for Nassau . He was married to Margot Müller-Werth, née Schmidt.

literature

• Literature by and about Herbert Müller-Werth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Otto Renkhoff : Nekrolog: Herbert Müller-Werth. In: Nassauische Annalen 1984 , pp. 460f.