Werner Otto Müller-Hill
Werner Otto Müller-Hill (* 1885 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † 1977 ) was a German lawyer.
Life
Müller-Hill was born as the son of an engineer in Freiburg im Breisgau . He studied law and worked as a lawyer before the First World War . During the war he worked as a judge at war and again as a lawyer during the Weimar Republic .
Müller-Hill volunteered for the Wehrmacht in 1939 , but was aloof from National Socialism . In the diary he wrote during the war in 1944, he criticized, among other things, the hopeless struggle in the long-lost war. In the post-war period he worked as a public prosecutor .
His diary, published in 2012, “You saw it coming, but you are still shaken” gained nationwide fame and was widely received.
He was the father of the geneticist Benno Müller-Hill .
Fonts
- Werner Otto Müller-Hill: You saw it coming and yet you were shocked - the war diary of a German army judge in 1944/45 . Foreword Wolfram Wette . Siedler, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-8275-0010-6 .
Web links
- Short biography of Werner Otto Müller-Hill
- Discussion of the Deutschlandfunk.de diary , February 4, 2013 (accessed on August 23, 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller-Hill, Werner Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1977 |