Theodor Müller (politician)

Theodor Müller (born March 12, 1871 in Breslau ; † February 27, 1932 there ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

The son of the railway official Julius Müller and Rosalie, b. Thorenz, attended elementary school in Breslau from 1877 to 1885. He completed an apprenticeship as a hairdresser, then went on a hike and did military service. In 1892 he joined the trade union and the SPD. After passing the master's examination, he worked as an independent master hairdresser in Flensburg until 1900 . He then began to work for the social democratic Schleswig-Holstein People's Newspaper , which was generally known as the Kieler People's Newspaper . For the newspaper he worked from 1900 to 1904 as a correspondent in Flensburg and from 1904 to 1906 as a branch expedition in Schleswig . During his journalistic activities in Flensburg he was also chairman of the local union cartel from 1900 to 1901.

Müller returned to Breslau in 1906 and was employed there for a short time as an editor for the People's Guard . From 1907 to November 1910 he worked for the Wroclaw Factory Workers' Union. He then worked from December 1910 to 1919 as party secretary for the Breslau SPD, of which he was also a member. From 1910 to 1920 he was a city councilor in Wroclaw. From 1915 to 1918 his professional and political activity was interrupted by his participation in the First World War.

Müller worked as a writer since 1919 and wrote The History of Wroclaw Social Democracy in 1925 . In the 1920s he acted as a partner in the People's Watch in Wroclaw.

In the Reichstag election in 1912 , Müller ran unsuccessfully for the Reichstag . He was a member of the Prussian State Constitutional Assembly from 1919 to 1921, and in February 1921 and December 1924 he was elected as a member of the Prussian State Parliament. In 1931 he moved again to the state parliament, to which he belonged until his death. In parliament he represented constituency 7 (Breslau).

Theodor Müller had been with Bertha, born in 1894. Kroll, married and had seven children.

literature

• Ernst Kienast (edit.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Issue for the 1st electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1921, p. 285.
• Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? - Our contemporaries. IX. Output. Verlag Herrmann Degener, Leipzig 1928, p. 1092.

Web links

• Biography of Theodor Müller . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)