Karl Müller (politician, 1878)

Karl Müller (born September 21, 1878 in Rambach , † after 1933) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

After attending primary school, Müller completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer. He worked as a bricklayer until 1907 and, in addition to his professional activity, was a union member of the Central Association of Masons, for which he managed branches in the Rhineland. From 1900 to 1906 he was chairman of the branch in Oberhausen and from 1906 to 1908 in Duisburg , where he got a job in 1907. From October 1910 to April 1913 he worked as a travel agent for the Niederrheinische Arbeiterzeitung in Moers, which is closely related to the union .

Müller joined the SPD and worked from May 1913 to August 1920 as party secretary for the Mörs-Rees constituency. At the same time he worked from 1917 to 1919 as a reporter for the party newspaper Niederrheinische Volksstimme . In Moers he was a member of the city council from 1919 to 1920. In January 1919 he ran for election to the German National Assembly , but failed to enter the newly created parliament. Three months later he was delegated by his party to the Second Reich Council Congress in Berlin . From 1919 to 1921 he was a member of the Prussian State Constitutional Assembly .

Müller moved to Stendal in 1920 , where he worked from August 15 as party secretary for the SPD sub-district of Stendal-Osterburg and later for the SPD district of Magdeburg-Anhalt. In Stendal he was also a member of the city council from 1922 and from 1925 deputy head of the city council. On December 16, 1927 he moved up as a member of the Prussian state parliament and in the state elections in May 1928 he won a mandate in constituency 10 (Magdeburg). The state parliament was a member until the end of the third legislative period in 1932. From February 5, 1933, when he replaced the late MP Hermann Kasten , he was again a member of the state parliament.

After the National Socialists came to power , Müller had to resign from his political functions.

literature

• Ernst Kienast (edit.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 3rd electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1928, p. 568.

Web links

• Karl Müller biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 4th electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1932, corrections for the manuals (as of February 15, 1933), p. 17.