Karl Müller (politician, 1897)

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Karl Müller (left) receives the Great Federal Cross of Merit

Karl Müller (born January 11, 1897 in Glatt (Sulz am Neckar) , † July 21, 1982 in Ravensburg ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

After graduating from elementary school , Müller also attended commercial school and completed an apprenticeship as a construction and art fitter. He then took courses at the metalworkers' association , to which he had been a member since 1914. He took part in the First World War from 1916 to 1918. Then he worked again in the profession he had learned. From 1929 until the free trade unions were banned in 1933, he was a full-time trade union secretary. After the National Socialists came to power , he was unemployed until 1936, but was then able to work again as a locksmith.

politics

Müller joined the SPD in 1920. From 1947 he was chairman of the SPD district association in Ravensburg. He had been a councilor of the city of Ravensburg since 1948 and was elected to the district council of the Ravensburg district in 1951. From 1947 to 1952 he was a member of the state parliament of Württemberg-Hohenzollern and then until 1956 of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg . From 1957 to 1969 he was a member of the Bundestag . He was always drawn into parliament via the Baden-Württemberg state list.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Office of the Federal President