Konrad Müller (lawyer)

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Friedrich Wilhelm Konrad Müller (born January 26, 1912 in Dambeck ; † June 6, 1979 in Marburg an der Lahn ) was a German lawyer and educational politician .

Life

Konrad Müller was the eldest of six children of the pastor and church politician Ludolf Hermann Müller , the later (1947–1955) Protestant bishop in Magdeburg , and the older brother of the Slavist Ludolf Müller (1917–2009).

After studying law in Marburg and Göttingen , he was a trainee lawyer in the judiciary and administration of the Prussian province of Saxony . After military service and imprisonment, he completed additional studies with a focus on history and public law in Göttingen and received his doctorate with Rudolf Smend with the dissertation State and Protestant Church Boundaries.

1948–1950 Müller was a consultant at the EKD 's Canon Law Institute, headed by Rudolf Smend, and from 1950–1954 an official in the Lower Saxony ministerial administration. He worked as an employee in the state chancellery of the first Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf , on the Loccum State Church Treaties , was Lower Saxony's delegate to the Federal Council and curator of the University of Göttingen . In 1959 he became State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture under the ministers Richard Voigt ( SPD ) and Hans Mühlenfeld ( FDP ), where he played a key role in the conclusion of the Concordat between the State of Lower Saxony and the Holy See on February 26, 1965. Müller was also involved in the fact that the literary scholar Hans Mayer , who moved from the GDR in 1963, came to the newly established chair for German literature at the then Technical University of Hanover (today: University of Hanover ). After taking over the Ministry of Culture by Richard Langeheine ( CDU ) in 1965 disagreements gave him with this opportunity for a transfer in -waiting to ask. This request was granted on October 31, 1966.

Afterwards, Müller acted as a board member of the Werner Reimers Foundation in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe , founded by the industrialist Werner Reimers , which promoted, organized and hosted diverse interdisciplinary research in the field of a “science of man”. He also worked as an honorary professor for educational policy at the University of Hanover. He also held numerous honorary positions in educational policy and the church, including as a member of the convent of the Evangelical Academy in Loccum .

Konrad Müller died at the age of 67 on June 6, 1979 from a heart attack in the university church in Marburg during a memorial service that was held on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the Marburg Religious Discussion between Luther and Zwingli .

Müller's written estate is kept in the Lower Saxony State Archives, Hanover location .

literature

  • Konrad Müller: State borders and Protestant church borders. All-German state unity and Protestant church unity. Mohr, Tübingen 1988, ed. (published posthumously), introduced and provided with a biography and appreciation as well as a list of his publications by Axel Freiherr von Campenhausen , ISBN 3-16-645329-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NLA HA VVP 10 - Arcinsys detail page. Retrieved August 31, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Friedrich Wilhelm Konrad (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and education politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Dambeck (Salzwedel)
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1979
Place of death Marburg on the Lahn