Karl Müller (resistance fighter, 1893)
Karl Müller (born April 7, 1893 in Gerresheim , † October 18, 1949 in Düsseldorf ) was a German attorney with a doctorate and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .
Life
Müller was the son of the bailiff Theodor Müller and his wife Anna, née Winkelius. He was raised strictly Catholic. In Düsseldorf he attended elementary school, then a Progymnasium in Eupen and switched to the Petrinum Gymnasium in Dorsten . In 1914 he passed his school leaving examination in Bocholt . From 1914 he took part in the First World War as a soldier . He began studying law in 1916 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , continued it in 1917 at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster and studied from 1920 at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald . There he received his doctorate in March 1921 with the dissertation National and International Official Language .
From Düsseldorf, where he had lived after stints in Cologne and Saarbrücken, he emigrated to France with his wife Charlotte in 1932. After the divorce in 1935 he returned to Düsseldorf and settled as a lawyer. Müller cultivated contacts with opponents of National Socialism, including the lawyer Karl August Wiedenhofen . When Düsseldorf was besieged by Allied troops from March 1945 towards the end of the Second World War , the NSDAP Gauleiter Friedrich Karl Florian gave the order on March 28, 1945 to evacuate and destroy the city. In April 1945, Müller took part in an action by citizens of Düsseldorf, the Action Rhineland , to hand over the city to the advancing American forces without a fight.
After the end of the Second World War, Müller worked as a lawyer again in Düsseldorf. In 1948 he married Elisabeth Regine Krüll. He died in 1949 at the age of 56.
Honors
Müller has a grave of honor in the north cemetery in Düsseldorf. The Karl-Müller-Straße in Dusseldorf-Düsseltal was named after him.
Web links
- Article by PHK Klaus-Fr. Dönecke, Düsseldorf Police Headquarters, press and public relations (PDF file; 415 kB)
- 60 years of the end of the war ( Memento from April 28, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (kriegsende.ARD.de)
- Biography in the portal Rheinische Geschichte
Individual evidence
- ↑ The later resistance fighter Karl Müller was a pupil at the grammar school Petrinum - Dorsten unterm Hakenkreuz.de.Retrieved on August 28, 2020
- ^ State capital Düsseldorf - Garden Office Düsseldorf - Cemeteries: Nordfriedhof
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German attorney with a doctorate and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gerresheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 1949 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |