Kurt Müller (politician, 1876)

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Kurt Müller (born May 15, 1876 in Harzgerode , † April 16, 1952 in Bernburg (Saale) , according to DNB Curt Alexander Müller ) was a German lawyer and Anhalt Minister of State (1924-1929).

Studies and professional life

Kurt Müller, son of a businessman, studied law and economics in Strasbourg , Berlin , Leipzig and Halle . During his studies in 1895 he became a member of the Suevia Leipzig fraternity . He passed both state legal exams, joined the Anhalt judiciary for a short time (court assessor) and was elected city council by the Dessau municipal council in 1905 and a year later he was deputy mayor of Dessau.

From 1910 he went through the career of the state administrative officer, was appointed to the State Ministry in 1912 and was appointed lecturing council here in 1914 . In 1920 he was promoted to Ministerial Director and in 1924 was elected Minister of State in the Deist cabinet by the state parliament. After leaving the ministerial office in 1928, he worked in the state government as a ministerial director.

Kurt Müller earned services in the social field, in flood protection, in the revision of the building regulations, in the administrative reform after the abolition of the monarchy and in securing the cultural heritage of the region. After 1918 he led the complex disputes between the Free State of Anhalt and the former ducal house. He was involved in the founding of the Anhalt State Library , the Anhalt Painting Gallery , the Anhalt State Museum in Zerbst and the redesign of the Museum of Natural History and Prehistory in Dessau.

Resting place in Dessau

author

In addition to his full-time work as a state official, Müller published an essay on the Hagenrode monastery in 1904 , followed by more than two dozen works on topics of Anhalt history and natural history such as "Truth and poetry about Eike von Repgow" or "Die Anhaltische Landesbrandkasse", which were published in periodicals and monographs ". For health reasons, he left his last major work, a history of the Ballenstedt district , as an incomplete manuscript.

Honors

In recognition of his historical and scientific work, Müller was elected chairman of the Association for Anhalt History and Archeology in 1920. He also worked on the board of the historical commission for the province of Saxony and for Anhalt (from 1912) as well as on the board of the Joachim Ernst Foundation, which he co-founded (from 1934). Müller was the owner of the Anhalt House Order of Albrecht the Bear for Art and Science.

In 1928 the University of Halle honored him with an honorary doctorate .

Retirement

In 1937, because of his rejection of the National Socialist system, Kurt Müller was removed from his office in the State Ministry by the Reich government, declared "not worthy of military service" and then excluded from several association boards such as the board of the historical commission for the province of Saxony and for Anhalt, the cultural foundation and the Moses Mendelssohn Foundation.

Bombed out in Dessau in 1945, he lived in Bernburg (Saale) until his death in 1952 .

publication

  • History of the Ballenstedt district. Kulturverein Wilhelm von Kügelgen Ballenstedt eV (Ed.) Supplemented and edited by Karl-Heinz Börner and Christoph Schröter. Quedlinburg 2006, ISBN 3-937648-09-7 .

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , p. 156.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DNB 1055659099
  2. ↑ 90th birthday ( Memento of the original dated December 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gartenreich.com
  3. ^ History of the Ballenstedt district. Kulturverein Wilhelm von Kügelgen Ballenstedt eV (Ed.). Supplemented and edited by Karl-Heinz Börner and Christoph Schröter. Quedlinburg 2006, ISBN 3-937648-09-7 , pp. 11-12; with portrait photo of Kurt Müller
  4. ↑ DNB 982333978
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Harzgerode
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1952
Place of death Bernburg (Saale)