Rudolf Mueller (politician, 1869)

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Rudolf Mueller as a corps student, 1893/94

Rudolf Mueller (born August 4, 1869 in Gießen , † June 1, 1954 in Darmstadt ) was a German politician and Lord Mayor of Darmstadt.

Life

Mueller came to Darmstadt as a student and attended the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium . After graduating from high school, he studied law . He was a member of the Corps Franconia Tübingen and the Corps Brunsviga Göttingen .

After his legal clerkship, he worked at the police office in Darmstadt, as deputy cabinet secretary in the state ministry and, since 1908, as a district administrator in Heppenheim .

From 1909 Mueller was alderman and mayor in Darmstadt. Before 1914 he was particularly committed to cultural issues. Despite his relatively old age, he had to take part in the First World War. After the end of the war, he campaigned especially for the disabled. At his instigation, u. a. a chair for orthopedic medicine was established in Giessen. In 1919 he was one of the founders of the German Democratic Party (DDP) in Hesse. In 1929 he succeeded Wilhelm Glässing as Lord Mayor of Darmstadt. He was released from this office on March 31, 1933 by the National Socialists .

After that he was active in particular as an art collector . From 1936 he was also chairman of the Odenwald Club .

Mueller died in 1954 at the age of almost 85. His grave is in the old cemetery in Darmstadt (grave site: III wall 115).

Honors

  • 1932: Appointment as honorary senator of the University of Giessen.
  • On August 4, 1949, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Darmstadt.
  • In 1974 the Rudolf Mueller plant in Darmstadt was named after him.

literature

  • Mueller, Rudolf. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1276.
  • Article Rudolf Mueller. In: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Stuttgart 2006, p. 651.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 127 , 772; 40 , 708
personal data
SURNAME Mueller, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, Lord Mayor of Darmstadt (1929–1933)
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH to water
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1954
Place of death Darmstadt