Emil Müller-Sturmheim

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Emil Müller-Sturmheim (real name Emil Müller, pseudonym also: E. Sturmheim ; * January 17, 1886 in Boryslaw , Austria-Hungary , †  1952 in London ) was a writer , anti-fascist, freemason and politically active for Austria in exile in London .

Live and act

Emil Müller-Sturmheim was born on January 17, 1886 in Boryslaw, but other sources assume that he was born in Vienna in 1889. He studied law and became a doctor of law . In 1918 he published the essay Emperor Charles New Ways and in 1920 his first and only novel The Fool of Love . This was followed in the 1930s by pacifist and anti-fascist writings such as It doesn't work without America (1930), Those who earn from war (1936) and Armaments as salvation (1937). On 12 June 1920 he was in Loge cosmos of the Grand Lodge of Vienna added. He became politically active and became general secretary of the Austrian League of Nations , the sister organization of the German League for the League of Nations . He was also General Secretary of the British-Austrian Chamber of Commerce . On July 11, 1938, he was able to flee Vienna from the National Socialists and emigrate to London .

In London he was active in setting up Austrian organizations in exile , first he was the first general secretary of the Free Austrian Movement . Subsequently, together with Friedrich Otto Hertz and Julius Meinl, he was in charge of founding the Austrian Democratic Union . In 1943 he was also involved in the founding of the Austrian section (in exile) of the New Commonwealth Society of Justice and Peace , which was promoted in 1932 by the British David Davies for the "promotion of international law and order" - especially against the arbitrary and murderous politics of fascist Italy and Nazi Germany - had come into being. The chairman of the British section was Winston Churchill . Emil Müller-Sturmheim wrote the writings 99.7% - A Plebiscite under Nazi Rule (1942) and What to Do About Austria (1943) in exile . The latter contains one of the rare fundamental debates of an Austrian politician in exile with the problem of anti-Semitism, which he describes as a fundamental challenge for all of humanity. In it he criticized the restrictive British policy towards Jewish refugees and how they were judged according to race. He also made the lack of acceptance of persecuted people and restrictive immigration laws partly responsible for the fact that the National Socialists were able to carry out their extermination policy. One consequence that Müller-Sturmheim drew from his analysis was the demand for a liberal migration policy on a global level.

After the war Emil Müller-Sturmheim tried to get into the tourism industry. On June 17, 1947, he married Sofie Fuchs, née Derman (born in Lemberg in 1899), who had also come to Great Britain as a refugee . In 1948 he translated Christian Democracy by Richard Stafford Cripps for Europa Verlag . Emil Müller-Sturmheim died in London in 1952.

Works (selection)

  • Emperor Karl new ways. 1918.
  • The fool of love. 1920.
  • It doesn't work without America. 1930.
  • Those who earn from the war. 1936.
  • Armor as salvation. 1937.
  • 99.7%: nintynine commasevenpercent; A plebiscite under Nazi rule. 1942.
  • What to Do About Austria. 1943.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günter K. Kodek: Our building blocks are the people. The members of the Viennese Masonic lodges 1869–1938. Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85409-512-5 , p. 240.
  2. ↑ Reinhard Müller : Some Austrian refugees in Great Britain. In: sbg.ac.at. P. 16 (PDF; 417 kB).
  3. ↑ Kodek, 2009, p. 240.
  4. ↑ Peter Pirker : The political relations between the British war intelligence service SOE, the Austrian exile and the Foreign Office. In: Anthony Grenville, Andrea Reiter: Political Exile and Exile Politics in Britain after 1933. Amsterdam, New York 2011, ISBN 978-90-420-3377-1 , p. 149.
  5. ↑ Alexander Emanuely: New light on old questions. Viennese freemasons and writers in exile. In: Zwischenwelt. Journal of the Culture of Exile and Resistance. Vol. 27, No. 3, November 2010, p. 52.
  6. ↑ Alexander Emanuely : Read Hamlet, play bridge! The Viennese lawyer Otto Harpner in British exile - between internment and political engagement. In: Zwischenwelt. Journal of the Culture of Exile and Resistance. Vol. 27, No. 4, February 2011, p. 17.
  7. ^ Marcus G. Patka : Austrian Freemasons in National Socialism. Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-205-78546-0 , p. 128.
  8. ↑ Peter Pirker: Liberal capsules. The exile side of Julius Meinl AG . In: Exile Research. An international yearbook . tape 33 . Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-86916-451-9 , pp. 146 .
  9. ^ The National Archives, 1945: E. Muller-Sturmheim: Offer of services with continental tourist traffic.
  10. ↑ Home Office: Aliens Department: Internees Index: Internees at Liberty in UK. ( movinghere.org.uk ( Memento of December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ))
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Sturmheim, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Emil; Stormheim, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, anti-fascist and freemason
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Boryslaw , Kingdom of Galicia, Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 1952
Place of death London , UK