Margarete Müller (politician, 1887)

Margarete Müller , b. Margarete Gundlach , (born July 27, 1887 in Berlin , † June 11, 1958 in Berlin) was a German politician ( CDU ). From 1946 to 1950 she was a member of the Mecklenburg state parliament.

Life

Margarete Müller attended the ten-class girls' school until 1902 and the Berlin Commercial Academy until 1904 . She trained as a secretary and worked in the Berlin banking industry until 1918. From 1918 to 1921, Müller was in charge of the Berlin-Lichtenberg housing department . Politically she had joined the Berlin SPD in 1919 . Margarete Müller began to work as a writer during the Weimar period . Until 1932 she was a member of the Association of German Stage Writers. Since she could not prove her Aryan descent, she was not accepted into the Reich Chamber of Literature after 1933 . In 1939 Müller became a member of the German women's organization.

In the summer of 1945 Margarete Müller joined the CDU in Zinnowitz on Usedom , where she now lived. In the municipal and state elections in autumn 1946, she won mandates for local government , the district council and the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament . Her parliamentary activities were disrupted by allegations from the SED that she wrote praises of Hitler during the Third Reich and that she was a member of the NSDAP . Although Müller was demonstrably not a member of the NSDAP, the Communist-dominated District Denazification Commission of Usedom found her guilty on December 20, 1947 on the basis of incriminating testimony. She was not allowed to hold leadership positions for a year. The background to this decision was the party-political composition of the denazification commissions. These consisted of a member of the CDU and LDPD , two representatives of the SED and three representatives of the mass organizations that also belonged to the SED.

Because of the stalking of the SED, Müller gave up her municipal mandate. The electoral review committee in the state parliament dealt with the matter, but came to the conclusion that the allegations were baseless. Despite her parliamentary immunity, Margarete Müller was arrested together with her third husband Ernst Müller, the state parliament member Walter Kolberg and seven other Union members on September 21, 1950 and sentenced by the Soviet military tribunal in Schwerin to 25 years of forced labor for alleged espionage and illegal group formation . They were assigned contacts to the head of the CDU East Office in West Berlin , the former Usedom District Administrator Werner Jöhren . While Kolberg died in Vorkuta , Müller survived the Siberian prison camps and was able to return to West Berlin with her husband in January 1954.

literature

• Inachin, Kyra T .: Parliamentarians. State politicians in Mecklenburg and Pomerania 1918 to today, Kückenshagen 2005, p. 160f
• LHAS 6.11-1-303, Mecklenburg State Parliament 1946-1952, investigations into the membership of MPs Margarete Müller, Zinnowitz, in Nazi organizations and their poems on the "Third Reich"
• Schwabe, Klaus: State election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 1946. Booklet accompanying the exhibition in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament from August 28 to October 20, 1996, Schwerin 1996
• Schwießelmann, Christian: The CDU in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania 1945 to 1952. From the founding to the dissolution of the regional association: A representation of the history of the party, research and sources on contemporary history, Volume 58, Düsseldorf 2010

Individual evidence

1. ^ Damian van Melis: Denazification in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Dominion and Administration 1945-1948, 1999, ISBN 3486563904 , page 208