Ludwig Müller von Hausen

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Ludwig Müller von Hausen (actually: Louis Eduard Julius Müller, born May 10, 1851 in Wesel , † August 17, 1926 in Berlin ) was a German anti-Semitic publicist and publisher. He published the first edition of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion outside of Russia in 1919 and is considered one of the most important propagandists of the theory of a Jewish-Masonic world conspiracy of the 1920s.

Life

Louis Müller's father was the paint manufacturer Louis Heinrich Moritz Müller, his mother's name was Clara Sophie Helena Wilhelmine Müller, b. von Hausen. In 1869 Müller joined the military, in 1870 he took part in the war against France . In 1879 he took his leave with the rank of first lieutenant . He later joined his father's factory as a partner. In 1903 he moved to Berlin and began to work as a journalist under the name Ludwig Müller von Hausen: for the German Conservative Party , he took over the editing of its Conservative Calendar , and in the German Conservative German daily he published various articles, including his memories of the war. He also made several contributions to Theodor Fritsch's anti-Semitic magazine Der Hammer . In 1910 he took over the chairmanship of the Berlin local chapter of the German National Writers' Association founded by Philipp Stauff and Adolf Bartels in the same year .

In response to the social democratic success in the Reichstag elections in January 1912 , Müller, together with Ernst Graf zu Reventlow and Reinhold Freiherr von Lichtenberg, founded the national association against the arrogance of Judaism , of which he became chairman. Other members included the later National Socialists Martin Bormann and Alfred Rosenberg . The aim was to inform the public about Judaism, its alleged "working methods, its organizations and its purposes", that is to say, to carry out anti-Semitic propaganda . An extensive manuscript by Müller's The Secret Organization of Judaism remained unprinted for financial reasons. But he published the association magazine Auf Vorposten in the publishing house of the same name. The editorial office was located on Kantstrasse in Charlottenburg . The sheet was sent to the association members as well as to government agencies and members of parliament.

In addition, Müller was a member of Fritsch's Teutonic Order and organized events for the German Lecture Society. When the Bayreuth performance monopoly for Parsifal expired in 1913, he campaigned in vain for its extension.

When the First World War broke out , the 63-year-old stopped working for the association and volunteered. Soon he was awarded the Iron Cross First Class and promoted to captain in a regiment of foot artillery . After being in Kovno on the cholera was ill, he retired in 1916 and returned to Charlottenburg. There he resumed his anti-Semitic and increasingly anti- Masonic activities. Through his confidante Max Bauer, he made contact with Quartermaster General Erich Ludendorff , who a few years later was to emerge with conspiracy theories about Jews and Freemasons .

In November 1918 he received a copy of Sergei Alexandrowitsch Nilus ' Velikoje v malom i Antichrist from Russian emigrants , which contained the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as an appendix , a forgery that was supposed to prove a Jewish world conspiracy . Müller thought it was authentic and commissioned a translation. Provided with long forewords and afterwords, which were supposed to prove that the content corresponded to the Jewish peculiarities he had assumed, he published them in December 1919 under the title Secrets of the Elders of Zion as a splendid edition financed by donations . An inexpensive popular edition soon followed. He used the pseudonym Gottfried zur Beek . It was the first edition of the Protocols outside of Russia. The book had had 22 editions by 1938. For the 7th edition of 1922 Müller rewrote his introduction and claimed from now on that the author of the minutes was the Zionist activist Acher Ginzberg .

In 1921 Müller von Hausen became chairman of the "Femeritter" of the Thule Society , a court for internal and external disputes whose relatives were entitled to pronounce death sentences against members of the order. At the beginning of the 1920s he was connected to the widespread political murder plans against Jewish, leftist and republican politicians and publicists. He was suspected of having commissioned an assassination attempt on the Russian social democrat Alexander Parvus . He had met Heinrich Tillessen and Heinrich Schulz , the murderers of Reich Finance Minister Matthias Erzberger , in the summer of 1921 shortly before the crime.

In the early 1920s, Müller was repeatedly involved in lawsuits related to the Protocols . In 1924, for example, he was acquitted of the accusation of defamation that he had incurred when he claimed that Emil Rathenau had kept a gallery of the severed heads of monarchs in his home. The court could not prove to Müller that he had made this untrue claim against his better judgment. In the years before his death, Müller von Hausen directed his polemics against the Freemasons , whom he accused of having placed the interests of the International League of Lodge Brothers above national interests and thus committed treason during the war. He is one of the most important propagandists of this conspiracy theory.

Works

  • The secrets of the Elders of Zion . On outpost, Charlottenburg 1919 (actually 1920)
  • The Hohenzollern and Freemasonry . On outpost, Charlottenburg 1924
  • The old Prussian lodges and the National Association of German Officers . On outpost, Charlottenburg 1924

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Markner: Ludwig Müller von Hausen (1851-1926) . In: Helmut Reinalter : (Ed.): Handbook of conspiracy theories. Salier Verlag, Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-96285-004-3 , p. 189.
  2. ↑ Elke Kimmel: Müller von Hausen, Ludwig [pseudonym: Gottfried zur Beek] . In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus . Vol. 2: People . De Gruyter Saur, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-44159-2 , p. 566 (accessed from De Gruyter Online); Reinhard Markner: Ludwig Müller von Hausen (1851–1926) . In: Helmut Reinalter : (Ed.): Handbook of conspiracy theories. Salier Verlag, Leipzig 2018, p. 189 f.
  3. ↑ Elke Kimmel: Müller von Hausen, Ludwig [pseudonym: Gottfried zur Beek] . In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus. Vol. 2: People . De Gruyter Saur, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-44159-2 , p. 566 f. (accessed via De Gruyter Online); Reinhard Markner: Ludwig Müller von Hausen (1851–1926) . In: Helmut Reinalter: (Ed.): Handbook of conspiracy theories. Salier Verlag, Leipzig 2018, p. 190.
  4. ↑ Reinhard Markner: Ludwig Müller von Hausen (1851-1926) . In: Helmut Reinalter: (Ed.): Handbook of conspiracy theories. Salier Verlag, Leipzig 2018, p. 190.
  5. ↑ Reinhard Markner: Ludwig Müller von Hausen (1851-1926) . In: Helmut Reinalter: (Ed.): Handbook of conspiracy theories. Salier Verlag, Leipzig 2018, pp. 190 f .; Wolfgang Wippermann , agent of evil. Conspiracy theories from Luther to today , be.bra. Verlag, Berlin 2007, p. 76.
  6. ↑ Martin Sabrow , The repressed conspiracy. The Rathenau murder and the German counter-revolution , Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, p. 47 ff.
  7. ↑ Reinhard Markner: Ludwig Müller von Hausen (1851-1926) . In: Helmut Reinalter: (Ed.): Handbook of conspiracy theories. Salier Verlag, Leipzig 2018, p. 191.
  8. ↑ Reinhard Markner: Ludwig Müller von Hausen (1851-1926) . In: Helmut Reinalter: (Ed.): Handbook of conspiracy theories. Salier Verlag, Leipzig 2018, p. 189.
personal data
SURNAME Müller von Hausen, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Ludwig; Müller, Louis Eduard Julius; zur Beek, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anti-Semitic publicist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesel
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1926
Place of death Berlin