Walther von Miller

Walther Miller is a redirect to this article. For other people, see Walter Miller .

Walther von Miller shortly after the election as district chairman of the CSU Munich

Walther von Miller (born February 17, 1894 in Munich ; † September 16, 1978 there ) was a lawyer, second mayor (1949–1956) and cultural advisor for the city of Munich.

Life

Walther von Miller was the son of Oskar von Miller , about whom he wrote a biography in 1932.

Miller studied law . His doctoral thesis in 1922 was on the topic of the financial sovereignty of the Reich and the states under the Reich constitution of August 11, 1919 . Miller married Irma Scholl (1898–1988). Walter Seuffert joined a Jewish law firm in 1932 , and Miller became a partner in the firm from 1933. Seuffert specialized in advising Jewish emigrants. Seuffert made trips abroad, including to Ludwig Quidde in Geneva. In 1940 the Gestapo arrested Seuffert and accused him of high treason . Seuffert remained in custody for four weeks and was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1941. Wilhelm Schmidhuber , Conrado José Kraémer , Heinrich Wilhelm Ickrath, Karl Helmut Schnell and Miller belonged to the Monday group around the head of the defense branch AST Air in Military District VII (Munich) Josef Müller . In the summer of 1945 Miller was one of the leading figures of the bourgeois conservative forces who rallied with the intention of founding a party intended to counterbalance the SPD and KPD.

When the district association of the CSU was founded in Munich , Miller was the first district chairman from 1945 to the end of 1946. After 1945 Miller was part of the Wednesday circle at Ochsensepp . From October 1945 he was a member of the Munich city council and from 1949 to 1956 he was cultural advisor to the Bavarian capital. In 1959 he received the Golden Citizen Medal of the City of Munich and was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit in the same year .

Siegestor a memorial against the war

Quadriga Löwen on Leopoldstrasse 1945

In the dispute over the restoration of the Victory Gate , Miller summed up his view by saying that it would be more important to remember what happened in the last war than to make the Victory Gate presentable again. Although not explicitly stated, the desire to keep the memory of the war helped decide which side of the Victory Gate should only be partially redeveloped for didactic memory. The south side, visible from the historic center, was more suitable for didactic purposes.

For the 1972 Olympic Games , the quadriga covered with lions that was cast in the “royal ore foundry” when Walther von Miller's grandfather Ferdinand von Miller was inspector there, was put back on the Siegestor.

literature

• Institute for Contemporary History : The CSU 1945–1948. Protocols and materials on the early history of the Christian-Social Union. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1993.

Web links

• Literature by and about Walther von Miller in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) CHRONICLE. In: The time. February 25, 1954.
2. ↑ tenth anniversary of the death of Vice-President of Germany Walter Seuffert. ( Memento of October 3, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (= Federal Constitutional Court - Press Office - Press Release No. 148/99 of December 27, 1999)
3. ↑ Hanns Seidel Foundation Chronology of the History 1945–2007 of the CSU ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Chronology of the history of the CSU 
4. ^ The mayors of Munich since 1818. on: muenchen.de
5. ^ Gavriel David Rosenfeld: Munich and Memory. University of California press, Berkeley 2000, ISBN 0-520-219104
6. ↑ Stadtmuseum Fürstenfeldbruck The Millers - A family breaks out