Thorsten Müller (journalist)

Thorsten Müller (born July 29, 1927 , † November 21, 1991 ) was a German journalist .

Life

At the age of 14, Thorsten Müller was expelled from school. The background to this was the allegation that it was inappropriate.

Müller had contact with the Hamburg swing youth . He belonged to the circle of the White Rose Hamburg .

In spring 1943 Müller was arrested by the Gestapo together with Bruno Himpkamp and Gerd Spitzbart . He used the bombing raids on Hamburg in July / August 1943 to escape from prison. He was arrested again in early December 1943.

Charges were brought against Müller before the People's Court . At the hearing that took place on April 19, 1945, the senior Reich lawyer applied for Thorsten Müller to be in prison for ten years . The main trial against him has been suspended. At the end of May 1945, after the British occupation troops marched in , Müller was able to leave the remand prison in Hamburg , where he was imprisoned.

Müller was committed to preserving knowledge of the resistance against National Socialism . He was a member of the Weisse Rose Foundation e. V. and passed on his knowledge of National Socialism as a contemporary witness .

Fonts

• Thorsten Müller: Jud remains Jud. For the 70th birthday of the Hamburg bookseller of the same name . In: Die Zeit vom March 7, 1969, accessed on January 14, 2020.
• Thorsten Müller: The White Rose of Hamburg. From the 125-year history of the bookstore on Jungfernstieg . In: Die Zeit from September 12, 1969, accessed on January 14, 2020.

See also

• Rough House Agency
• People of the White Rose Hamburg

literature

• The "swing youth". People who have resisted . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from January 27, 2011.

Web links

• Detlef Garbe: Address for the opening of the exhibition “Swing in Hamburg, Hans Leipelt and the 'White Rose'” , accessed on January 14, 2020.
• Thorsten Müller: Contemporary witness report on the swing youth , accessed on January 14, 2020.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German Resistance Memorial Center: Bruno Himpkamp , accessed on January 14, 2020.
2. ↑ Ulrich Herrmann: Jung und Uneinig , accessed on January 14, 2020.