Herbert Müller (politician, 1900)

Grave monument in the main cemetery in Ludwigshafen

Herbert Müller (born September 13, 1900 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , † November 24, 1994 ibid) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism and a politician.

Life

Müller was a trained typesetter. During his apprenticeship he already became a member of the socialist youth association and in 1917 its local chairman in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. In 1918 he co-founded the Free Socialist Youth in the Palatinate and in 1919 a member of the KPD , of which he became local chairman in 1923. In 1928 he was elected to the Bavarian state parliament, at the same time he became organizational head of the Palatinate district of the KPD and in 1929 a member of the city council in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, in 1932 he became organizational head of the newly formed Baden-Palatinate district .

The National Socialists arrested him on May 2, 1933 and kept him in Dachau concentration camp until 1935 . He then worked in the resistance before he fled to Spain via France in 1936. In the Spanish Civil War he was an officer in the International Brigades . In 1938 he returned to France and took care of interned fighters of the Republican Spanish Army. In 1939 he himself was briefly interned and in 1940 he was recruited for military service in the French army .

After the Wehrmacht invaded southern France, he had to go underground in 1943. He participated in the Free Germany Movement for the West (Comité "Allemagne libre" pour l'Ouest, CALPO) and became President of the Toulouse region . In April 1944 he signed an agreement for CALPO with the CFLN resistance movement , led by Charles de Gaulle , through which the Free Germany Movement for the West was officially recognized as part of the Resistance . At the beginning of 1945 he became a member of the KPD section leadership west .

After the Second World War , he was an editor at the Rheinpfalz from 1945 to 1947 . He was a partner in the Neue Pfälzer Post from 1966 to 1981.

In 1945 he became KPD chairman of the Palatinate, a year later of Hesse-Palatinate and in 1947 of Rhineland-Palatinate . In 1946 he was re-elected to the city council of Ludwigshafen am Rhein, to which he belonged until 1969 and in which he was parliamentary group leader of the KPD until 1949. In 1946 he became a member of the advisory state assembly in the newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate and from 1947 to 1971 he was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament . There he was initially the parliamentary group leader of the KPD, but was dismissed under pressure from the state chairman in 1948 after the parliamentary group supported the Social Democrat Jakob Steffan in the election of deputy prime minister. After further allegations he joined the SPD in 1949 and was managing director of the SPD district of Ludwigshafen from 1950 to 1966.

Müller found his final resting place in the main cemetery in Ludwigshafen .

Honors

Federal Cross of Merit (May 18, 1965)
Honorary Citizen of Ludwigshafen (1983)
Freiherr vom Stein plaque (1969)

literature

Peter Ruf: Ludwigshafen deputy in the state parliament, Reichstag and Bundestag . Ludwigshafen 1993, ISBN 3-924667-20-9
City archive of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein (Hrsg.): History of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein: Vol. 2., From the end of the First World War to the present . Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2003, ISBN 3-924667-35-7
Müller, Herbert . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .

Web links

Klaus J. Becker, Annette Roser: The party proceedings against Lex Ende in the summer of 1945 in Paris ( Memento of December 8, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Documents from the Herbert Müller estate (PDF; 198 kB)
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation : Against Hitler. Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement. Short biographies (PDF; 894 kB)
Herbert Müller in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

↑ Office of the Federal President
^ The President of the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate: The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015 . Ed .: The President of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , p. 479-480 .

personal data
SURNAME	Müller, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	September 13, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ludwigshafen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH	November 24, 1994
Place of death	Ludwigshafen am Rhein

[1] Office of the Federal President

[2] The President of the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate: The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015 . Ed .: The President of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , p. 479-480 .