Paul Müller (politician, 1892)

Paul Müller (born April 8, 1892 in Zeyern ; † January 1, 1963 there ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and veterinarian .

Life

The son of an innkeeper and postal expeditor attended the elementary school in Zeyern from 1898 to 1902 and then the secondary school in Kronach until 1908 . Then Müller switched to the secondary school in Bayreuth , where he graduated from high school in 1911 . After attending school, Müller studied veterinary medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Munich, at the University of Gießen and at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Dresden until August 1914 . After participating in the First World War as a war volunteer with the 1st Chevauleger Regiment from Nuremberg , where he served at the front in France, Russia and Romania, he joined the Bavarian Rescue Service in 1919 . After continuing his studies doctorate he attended the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover to Dr. med. vet. From March 1, 1919, he worked as a resident veterinarian in Kronach. Müller had been married since October 1917.

Müller joined the NSDAP for the first time on September 5, 1923 (membership number 42.288). During the NSDAP ban as a result of the Hitler putsch , he was a member of the Nuremberg German Workers' Party (DAP membership number 154). After the re-admission of the NSDAP, he rejoined the party on August 1, 1928 ( membership number 95,701). In 1933, Müller tried unsuccessfully to obtain a lower membership number, stating that he had been active for the NSDAP again since 1925. In 1929 he was elected as one of three NSDAP members in the Kronach city council, where he was deputy parliamentary group chairman. Also since 1929 he appeared as a circle and district speaker for the NSDAP. In February 1931 he became the local group leader in Kronach; in December 1932 NSDAP district leader for Kronach. At that time the NSDAP was well organized in the Kronach district , but lagged behind the electoral successes in the rest of Upper Franconia , which is attributed to the high proportion of Catholics and those employed in industry and crafts in the district.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Müller was second mayor of Kronach until 1935 ; he was also a member of the district council for Upper Franconia and the district council. From May 1, 1934 to December 31, 1935 he was Gau training manager of the Gau leadership in Bavarian East Markets . From July 1934, Müller served as Gau inspector for the northern part of the Gau. In this function, he was responsible, among other things, for mercy cases, internal party complaints and differences as well as the handling of special tasks of the Gauleiter and, as the party’s representative, was able to influence personnel decisions in several Upper Franconian cities. In his annual report for 1934, Müller complained that in his function as district inspector, in view of a large number of complaints from " old fighters " who felt that they had not been properly taken into account after the "seizure of power", he was barely able to fulfill his other areas of responsibility.

On August 22, 1936, after running unsuccessfully for the National Socialist Reichstag in 1933 and 1936 , Müller joined the Reichstag as a member of the Reichstag in the replacement procedure for the resigned Wilhelm Kube , which he then belonged to until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945 . Also in 1936, as NSDAP district leader, he was also responsible for the neighboring district of Stadtsteinach . On April 28, 1936, he joined the SS (SS No. 276.295) as SS-Sturmbannführer ; on January 30, 1943 he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer . From 1938 until the end of the war he was a member of the Reichsschrifttumskammer and Gauverband leader of the NS-Studentenkampfhilfe in Gau Bayerische Ostmark.

As district leader, Müller ensured that retired BVP municipal councilors were replaced by National Socialists in 1933 . In 1934 he initiated the arrest of 40 Stahlhelm members because he suspected the organization of acting as an “asylum” for opponents of the National Socialists. On the one hand, Müller called on subordinate party offices to behave tactically and cautiously towards the churches; on the other hand, he tried to intimidate priests who were viewed as oppositional In 1938 Müller published Moscow executing Mardochai's will. Jewish Bolshevism Threatened the World , an anti-Semitic work resorting to the forged protocols of the Elders of Zion , in which it claimed that the communist world revolution was a goal of Jewish world power and advocated ruthless suppression of Judaism.

From September 1944 Müller was leader of the Volkssturm in the Kronach-Stadtsteinach district, but fled from the enemy troops in April 1945. After his wife was picked up by American soldiers shortly afterwards, he surrendered to the Americans and was interned. After his release he worked as a vet in his hometown of Zeyern until his death.

The historian Claudia Roth characterizes Müller as "equally qualified as power-conscious party leader" who has managed to maintain his local power base and to increase his influence through his offices at the Gau level. The sources show Müller "as a technocratically versed and assertive incumbent," said Roth.

Fonts

• Development and current state of combating mange and the effect of sun rays and hot air on sarcoptic mites on living animal bodies and in test tubes , 1924 (probable dissertation)
• Moscow executes Mardochai's will. Jewish Bolshevism threatens the world , 1938. (under the author's name Paul Müller-Kronach)

literature

• Claudia Roth: Party group and district leader of the NSDAP with special consideration of Bavaria. (= Series of publications on Bavarian regional history , volume 107) Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-10688-9 , pp. 336–354.
• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 429 .

Web links

• Paul Müller in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Literature by and about Paul Müller in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roth, Party Circle , p. 337.
2. ↑ Roth, Party Circle , p. 339.
3. ↑ Roth, Party Circle , pp. 342f.
4. ^ Roth, Party Circle , pp. 345f, 349.
5. ^ Roth, Party Circle , p. 352.
6. ↑ Roth, Party Circle , p. 354.