Karl Müller (banker)

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Karl Muller

Johann Karl Müller (born January 2, 1879 in Thansüß ; † November 21, 1944 ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and banker.

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Müller attended elementary school in Thansüß and the commercial school with commercial training in Mannheim . After completing his military service, he joined the Münchener Industrie-Bank eGmbH in Munich in 1900 , where he was appointed agent in 1906. Because of an illness he was unfit for military service in 1907.

In 1911 he switched to the Bayerische Handelsbank in Munich as an authorized signatory, where he was the branch manager from 1912 to 1918. In 1918 he was appointed director of the Pfälzische Bank in Frankfurt am Main . After this bank was taken over by Deutsche Bank in 1922 , he was appointed to the management of the newly founded, "purely Aryan" Deutsche Hansabank in Munich. He made the acquaintance of Adolf Hitler in 1922.

In 1933, Müller became head of the Bank of Workers, Employees and Officials AG in Berlin , which was later renamed Bank der Arbeit AG, and an agent of the German consumer cooperatives (GEG) mbH in Hamburg . In May 1933, Robert Ley appointed Karl Müller "Unterpfleger" of the expropriated social democratic and free trade union assets and thus effectively the administrator of the assets, real estate and companies of the other employee associations. Furthermore, Müller was chairman of the executive committee of the holiday homes for trade and industry, German Society for Merchant Recreational Homes e. V. Wiesbaden , member of the large and small labor convention.

On May 1, 1933 , Karl Müller joined the NSDAP . Because of this, he received a high membership number (3,206,900). Through a personal intervention by Adolf Hitler , he then received the lower and "honorable" membership number 1.576.709. On November 12, 1933, Karl Müller entered the Reichstag in Berlin for the NSDAP , of which he was a member until 1938. He was one of the founding members of the National Socialist Academy for German Law Hans Franks . In 1934 he became managing director of DAF .

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  1. Files of the Reich Chancellery: Müller, (Johann) Karl . Federal Archives , accessed on November 23, 2017.
  2. Rüdiger Hachtmann: The economic empire of the German labor front (1933-1945). Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2012, p. 71
  3. Rüdiger Hachtmann: The economic empire of the German labor front (1933-1945). Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2012, p. 71
  4. Rüdiger Hachtmann: The economic empire of the German labor front (1933-1945). Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2012, p. 71
  5. ^ Yearbook of the Academy for German Law, 1st year 1933/34. Edited by Hans Frank. (Munich, Berlin, Leipzig: Schweitzer Verlag), p. 255