Karl Otto Müller (archivist)

Karl Otto Müller (born May 13, 1884 in Ravensburg , † December 14, 1960 in Stuttgart ) was a German archivist and legal historian .

Life

Müller was a son of the Medical Councilor Karl Müller in Ravensburg, an uncle on his mother's side was the Jesuit and later Cardinal Franz Ehrle . After graduation (1902) on the local high school , he studied law at the University of Tübingen and in Berlin , Munich and Leipzig . Since 1902 he was a member of the Catholic student union AV Guestfalia Tübingen . From 1907 he completed his legal preparatory service at the Ravensburg District and Regional Court and in a Stuttgart law firm. In 1911 he was awarded a doctorate in law by Siegfried Rietschel in Tübingen. jur. PhD.

After a brief activity as a lawyer in Heilbronn , Müller joined the Württemberg archives administration as archival secretary and took over the management of what was then the state archive in Ludwigsburg , which was dissolved after the First World War through the incorporation of the previously independent financial archive and the archive of the interior and the takeover of the four documents District governments experienced a considerable increase in its holdings and became the largest archive in Württemberg.

In 1932 Müller was transferred to the State Archives (from 1938: Main State Archives ) in Stuttgart as a member of the government . In 1938 he received the title of State Archives Councilor. As deputy head of the main state archive, he also took on a management role there. At the same time, Müller was responsible for matters relating to local heraldry as a coat of arms officer at the Württemberg archives department. When the management position was replaced in 1933, however, he was passed over and only after the previous director Hermann Haering was dismissed in 1946 by Prime Minister Reinhold Maier was promoted retrospectively to January 1, 1933 as director of the main state archive and head of the Württemberg archives department. He was retired in October 1951.

From 1949 to 1952 Müller was chairman of the Württemberg Commission for State History . His estate is in the main state archive in Stuttgart.

family

In 1914 Müller married Elisabeth Kiene, a daughter of the later Württemberg Justice Minister Johannes Baptist von Kiene . The marriage had five children.

Awards

• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1956)

Works

• Description (status) of the coming of the Deutschordensballei Alsace-Swabia-Burgundy in 1393 (Stuttgart 1958)
• Sources on the trading history of the Paumgartner von Augsburg (1480–1570) (Wiesbaden 1955)
• Sources on the administrative and economic history of the County of Hohenberg. From the transition to Austria (1381) to the end of the imperial city pledge (1454) (Stuttgart 1953)
• World trade customs 1480-1540 (1934, ND Wiesbaden 1962)
• Deeds from the Premonstratensian Monastery of Adelberg (1178-1536). (Stuttgart 1949)
• Complete overview of the holdings of the state archives of Württemberg according to plan. With an overview of the history of the Württemberg state archives and a list of the Württemberg state archivists. (Stuttgart 1937)
• Old Württemberg land register from the time of Count Eberhard des Greiner 1344-1392 (Stuttgart 1934)
• Nördlingen City Rights in the Middle Ages (Munich 1933)
• The older city rights of the imperial city of Ravensburg. In addition to d. Waldseer Stadtrechtshandschrift and statutes d. Ravensburger Denkbuch (Stuttgart 1924)
• The Upper Swabian imperial cities. Its origins and older constitution (Stuttgart 1912, diss.)

literature

• Festschrift Karl Otto Müller on the completion of the 70th year of life . Edited by the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Stuttgart 1954

Web links

• Proof of the estate in the archive portal-D
• Müller, Karl Otto .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .