Ludolf Hermann Müller

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Ludolf Hermann Müller (born October 8, 1882 in Kalbe (Milde) , † February 14, 1959 in Magdeburg ) was Bishop of the Evangelical Church in the ecclesiastical province of Saxony .

Life

Müller grew up as a son of the conservative set Superintendent Julius Müller in Altmark Kalbe and attended also to 1893 the primary school. From 1893 to 1901 he was a student of the pedagogy of the monastery Our Dear Women in Magdeburg and passed the Abitur there. From 1901 to 1905 Müller studied Protestant theology in Tübingen, Leipzig and Halle. During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Halle . In the summer of 1905 he completed his studies with the 1st theological exam. After a one-year teaching vicariate in Gollma bei Delitzsch and a job as a private tutor in Lauban , Silesia , after passing the 2nd theological exam and ordination in 1909 , he became a pastor for the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union at the Dambeck village church in Dambeck in the Altmark. There he was particularly involved in the fight against the liberal German farmers' union . During the First World War he was a volunteer chaplain in German-occupied Poland from 1915 to 1916 and from 1917 pastor in Schönsee in West Prussia . There, too, he was active again in the political field when he campaigned for the interests of the population of German origin in the German People's Council of West Prussia. After Schönsee became part of the Pomeranian Voivodeship , he was arrested in August 1920 as an alleged rebel and finally expelled from Poland in November 1921 . He then worked for the evangelical aid organization Gustav-Adolf-Verein and was a member of the constituent church assembly of the Old Prussian Union .

In March 1922 Müller became pastor in Dingelstedt am Huy near Halberstadt , on April 1, 1927, the pastor's position in Heiligenstadt was transferred to him, and he was appointed superintendent of the Eichsfeld church district . After the National Socialists seized power in 1933, he became a member of the Confessing Church and held a leading position in its governing body, the Provincial Brother Council . Because of his work in the regime-critical pastors' emergency union , he was temporarily on leave. In 1937 he was briefly imprisoned for his membership in the Confessing Church. In 1938, Müller subsequently swore the oath on Adolf Hitler , adding a personal supplementary declaration . His draft for military service on September 1, 1939 was canceled after just five days.

After the Second World War, he was instrumental in building an independent church province of Saxony on behalf of the Provincial Brotherhood of the Confessing Church. After he was initially appointed to the provisional church government and shortly afterwards took over its chairmanship and the office of Synodal President , the church government unanimously elected him on May 20, 1947 as bishop of the new church province. On July 16, 1947, he was introduced to his office in Merseburg Cathedral . His term of office fell during the period of increasing anti-church politics in the GDR until 1952. In discussions with the GDR politicians, he campaigned in particular for an independent church proclamation, for democratic elections and against harassment of the peasants. However, at the height of the church persecution he did not succeed in preventing violent measures against church youth and student work and against the diaconal institutions . During his activity as bishop he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the theological faculty of the University of Halle . On October 1, 1955, Müller retired.

On April 25, 1911, Müller and Irmgard Boy, daughter of the superintendent, married in Ziesar . The marriage had five children. Among them were the later education politician Konrad Müller (1912–1979) and the Slavist Ludolf Müller (1917–2009).

Works

  • Letters from the years 1638-1648 from Elias v. Alvensleben zu Isernschnibbe to Valentin Joachim v. Alvensleben auf Erxleben (In: Thirtieth Annual Report of the Altmark Association for Patriotic History and Industry in Salzwedel. Department of History , Magdeburg 1903, pp. 46–99)
  • The Uniate Evangelical Church in Posen-West Prussia under Polish tyranny (Leipzig 1925)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin Wiehle : Altmark personalities. Biographical lexicon of the Altmark, the Elbe-Havel-Land and the Jerichower Land (= contributions to the cultural history of the Altmark and its peripheral areas. Vol. 5). Dr. ziethen verlag, Oschersleben 1999, ISBN 3-932090-61-6 , p. 119.
  2. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 154.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Ludolf Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalbe ad Mildness
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1959
Place of death Magdeburg