Hermann Müller (politician, 1868)

Hermann Muller

Hermann Müller (born February 10, 1868 in Werdau , † November 13, 1932 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Müller is not to be confused with the former Chancellor Hermann Müller of the same name . In order to be able to distinguish between the two politicians, who not only belonged to the same party but also to the German parliament at the same time, they were usually described in contemporary newspapers and books with the addition of their constituency as Hermann Müller ( Franconia ) and Hermann Müller (Lichtenberg) designated.

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Müller attended community school, then secondary school. He then trained as a lithographer . He practiced this profession in the following years in Hanover , Kassel , Halle an der Saale and Bochum . As a young man he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany . In 1898 he became editor of the Volksblatt for Bochum.

In 1900 Müller got a job as a workers secretary in Bremen . In 1905 he became secretary of the Central Workers' Secretariat in Berlin . From 1907 to 1917 he sat on the city council of Berlin-Lichtenberg , before that he was a city councilor. In 1907 he became the second honorary chairman of the Association of Lithographers and Stone Printers, an activity that he carried out until 1919. At the same time he became first chairman of the Central Commission of Lithographers. In addition, from 1907 to 1908 he was chief chairman of the Senfeld Federation.

In 1909, Müller traveled to North America for a few weeks on behalf of the Association of Lithographers. In 1917 he became a member of the Control Commission and the Party Committee of the Social Democratic Party. In 1917 he became a city councilor in Lichtenberg .

In January 1919 Müller became a member of the Weimar National Assembly , which met in the transitional phase between the collapse of the Empire and the first Reichstag election of the Weimar Republic in June 1920. In this “executive parliament” he represented constituency 4 (Potsdam).

In 1922 Müller became editor of the correspondence sheet of the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB). In 1924 he became deputy chairman of the ADGB. He also served in the 1920s as a member of the Economic Council of the League of Nations, a member of the Board of Directors of the International Labor Office of the League of Nations in Geneva and a member of the board of the Berlin State Insurance Company. Furthermore, Müller was a member of the control commission of the SPD and a member of the State Court for the Protection of the Republic.

In May 1928 Müller was elected to the 4th Reichstag as a candidate of the SPD for constituency 4 (Potsdam I) ; In 1930 he was re-elected . This electoral period ended with the early Reichstag elections in July 1932 .

Fonts

• The case law in accident pension disputes. 1909.
• The accident insurance of the RVO. 1912.
• The organizations of lithographers, lithographers, etc. Volume 1. 1917.
• Karl Marx and the trade union movement. 1918.
• History of the German trade unions up to 1878. 1918.

literature

• Gerhard Beier :  Müller-Lichtenberg, Julius Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 502 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

See also

• List of members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic (4th electoral term)
• List of members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic (5th electoral term)

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hermann Müller in the database of members of the Reichstag