Karl Müller (politician, 1890)

Karl Müller (born September 12, 1890 in Höhscheid , today in Solingen ; † June 1, 1968 in Solingen) was a German SPD politician .

Karl Müller was a trained knife rider , at the age of 18 he became a member of the SPD. In June 1933 he was dismissed from the services of the city of Solingen, for which he had worked as an unskilled worker, on the basis of the law for the restoration of the professional civil service. His seat in the city council was also revoked.

Together with other comrades, Müller tried to organize the SPD underground and, together with Ernst Gnoss, kept in contact with the exile SPD, but had to flee to the Netherlands after his arrest and that of the union leader Max Richter in 1935. In the following years he lived in the Netherlands and Belgium and worked as a mechanic.

In 1940 Müller was interned after the invasion of German troops and taken to a camp in France. He was able to escape from there in 1942 with the help of a pastor and lived illegally for two years in St. Hilaire de Lavit in the Lozère department. In November 1944, Müller went to Paris, liberated by the Allies, and worked there until 1945 as secretary of the national group of German Social Democrats in France.

Karl Müller returned to Solingen in October 1945, was appointed by the British for the SPD to the first Solingen city council in February 1946 and was initially a full-time employee of the unified trade union from April 1946 and then, until his retirement in 1955, union secretary of the ÖTV in Solingen. Müller was also a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia from October 2, 1946 to April 19, 1947 in the first and second legislative periods.

Web link

• Karl Müller at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
• City archive of Solingen about Karl Müller