Ludwig Müffelmann

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Ludwig Müffelmann as a member of the Arminia Leipzig fraternity in 1874

Ludwig Müffelmann (born August 10, 1853 in Schwerin ; † April 6, 1927 ) was a German Freemason , journalist and writer .

Life

Ludwig Müffelmann was born as the son and younger child of the grand ducal court kitchen manager Wilhelm Müffelmann (* 1807) in Schwerin. After graduating from the Fridericianum Schwerin , Ludwig Müffelmann studied philology and archeology in Leipzig from 1873 to 1875 and then went to Rostock. There he was in 1876 with a thesis on the Rhyme Chronicle of marshal Thurius doctorate . May 19, 1873 he became active in the Arminia fraternity .

He was a member of the Masonic Lodge Zu den Drei Rosen in Rostock, Master of the Chair of the Lodge Humanitas and first Provincial Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Hamburg . He caused a sensation with the thesis that Italy's entry into the First World War was exclusively the work of the Freemasons and that Italian Freemasonry carried this heavy blood guilt upon itself. His son Leo Müffelmann was also a well-known Freemason. He was editor-in-chief of the Rostocker Zeitung and the Charlottenburger Zeitung "Neue Zeit". From 1904 he edited the "building blocks", the official organ of the Kaiser Friedrich Lodge for loyalty to the Alliance .

Fonts

  • The rhyme chronicle of Marshal Thurius and its sources . Dissertation University of Rostock 1876.
  • Richard Wagner and the development towards human freedom . Berlin 1903.
  • Italian Freemasonry and its work for the participation of Italy in the war. Handwriting for Freemasons only , Alfred Unger, Berlin 1915.
  • HV Roet de Rouet (ed.), Italian Freemasonry and its work for the participation of Italy in the war. Essen 2014. ISBN 978-3-939413-44-8
  • The Bluntschli Committee of the German League for the League of Nations . Berlin 1920.

literature

  • HV Roet de Rouet, Ludwig Müffelmann - Between nationality and cosmopolitanism. Essen 2014. ISBN 978-3-939413-43-1
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 500–502.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the census list 1900 born. not in Ludwigslust !
  2. ↑ Berlin and Schwerin are named as possible places of death in the literature .
personal data
SURNAME Müffelmann, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German freemason, journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1927
Place of death uncertain: Berlin or Schwerin