Rudolf Müller (diplomat)

Rudolf Müller (born October 3, 1878 in Spandau ; died March 18, 1966 in West Berlin ) was a German diplomat.

Life

Rudolf Müller was a son of the Prussian officer Albert Müller and Anna Wulff. In 1897 he entered the middle Prussian administrative service. Müller did military service in 1898 at the age of one and was promoted to first lieutenant in the reserve in 1911, and was promoted to major in the reserve during the First World War.

In 1901 Müller was taken on as a dietician in the office of the Prussian Foreign Service and was employed as a chancellery in Bern, Brussels, Bogata and Bucharest. In the Weimar Republic in 1925 he was acting head of the consulate in Tétouan in Spanish Morocco . From 1926 he headed the Vice Consulate in Posadas in Argentina and in 1934 changed to Port-au-Prince as Vice Consul and in 1936 became Consul in Curitiba in Brazil. Müller was a member of the DNVP from 1919 to 1930, a member of the NSDAP since April 1, 1933 and an SS member , since 1941 with the rank of SS standard leader .

In August 1939 Müller took over the business of a consul in Bolzano, Italy, which had been in 1919, and was promoted to consul general in 1940. After the Milan Consul General Otto Bene was transferred to the occupied Netherlands, he took over his functions in the evacuation of the German population from South Tyrol . In November 1942 Müller was transferred to the consulate in Ljubljana in the Provincia di Lubiana annexed by Italy . In September 1943, the region in the Adriatic Coastal Operation Zone came under German rule. From October 1944 until the end of the war, Müller was again consul in Bozen, now in the foothills of the Alps .

Müller was taken prisoner in the US in June 1945 and was interned on the Hohenasperg from March 1946 to February 1947 . Nothing is known about its denazification .

literature

• Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: L – R. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 , p. 315f.