Oscar Müller (journalist)

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Oscar Müller (born August 20, 1877 in Appenweier , † January 2, 1960 in Berlin-Lichterfelde ) was a German journalist and civil servant. From June 1921 to November 1922 he served as press chief of the Reich government.

Life and activity

Müller was the son of a wholesale merchant. After attending grammar schools in Freiburg and Pressburg , Müller studied law . During his studies in 1895 he became a member of the Saxo-Silesia Freiburg fraternity .

In his professional life, Müller first gained a foothold as editor of the Stuttgart observer . In 1907 he joined the staff of the Frankfurter Zeitung , for which he worked as a correspondent in Strasbourg until 1910. From 1911 until Italy entered the First World War in 1915, Müller represented this paper in Rome . Müller spent the rest of the First World War as an officer in a Landwehr infantry regiment in Bulgaria and Romania. During this time he founded the Bucharest daily newspaper .

At the end of 1918, Müller took over the management of the foreign policy department of the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (DAZ). However, he left this sheet when it became the property of the Stinnes Group in 1921 . Instead, he briefly represented the Frankfurter Generalanzeiger in Berlin, before he was appointed head of the press department of the Reich government ("Reichspressechef") by the new Chancellor on June 18, 1921, on the occasion of the formation of the Wirth government . His appointment was widely rated as a good personnel decision: In a comment in the Vossische Zeitung , for example, Georg Bernhard Müller praised him as a journalist with “versatile experience”. During this time he took part in the Genoa Conference. On the occasion of Wirth's resignation on November 22, 1922, Müller also resigned from the Reich government.

In November 1922, Müller moved to the Foreign Office as a ministerial director , where he remained until January 1933. At this point he was retired.

In 1939, Müller can be traced back to us as chief editor of the journal Archive for Foreign Policy and Regional Geography.

Different information is available on Müller's political affiliation: While Peter-Christian Witt wrote a short profile about Müller that he was a member of the Center Party , Kurt Koszyk says that Müller was a member of the German Democratic Party (DDP). The Federal Archives also state that Müller belonged to the latter party from 1927 to 1930.

literature

  • Peter Bauer: The Organization of Official Press Policy in the Weimar Period (combined press department of the Reich Government and the Foreign Office) , 1963, p. 70.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 156-157.
  • Peter Christian Witt: “Conservatism as 'non-partisan'. The officials of the Reich Chancellery between the Empire and the Weimar Republic 1900-1933 ”, in: Dirk Stegmann (Ed.): German Conservatism in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Festschrift for Fritz Fischer on his 75th birthday and on the 50th anniversary of his doctorate , Berlin 1983, p. 277.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Koszyk: Deutsche Presse, 1914-1945 , (= History of the German Press Part III), 1972, p. 111.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Appenweier
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1960
Place of death Berlin-Lichterfelde