Wilhelm Müller (politician, 1889)

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Wilhelm Müller (born February 4, 1889 in Kiel , † November 30, 1965 in Rastede ) was a German local politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

Müller spent his school days in Wilhelmshaven and passed his Abitur at the Kaiser Wilhelm High School there in 1909. He then studied German , history and philosophy in Göttingen and Kiel until 1914 . At the beginning of the First World War he volunteered and took part in the fighting from 1914 to 1918, interrupted only by a vacation for the wounded at the turn of 1914/15, during which he did his doctorate in Kiel . After the war, he worked from 1919 to 1933 Oldenburg in higher education service, first as assessor in Rüstringen , then from 1920 as a teacher in Brake and 1928 in the same capacity in Delmenhorst . In 1930, the year of her first major political and parliamentary success, Müller joined the NSDAP, became a local group leader in Hude , then Gauredner and finally, from 1933, in personal union, district leader and state commissioner for the municipality of Delmenhorst.

From July 1, 1933 to February 18, 1937, Müller was Lord Mayor of Delmenhorst. As part of the implementation of the law on Greater Hamburg and other area consolidations , the Gauleiter Carl Röver appointed Müller in 1937 because of his experience in the municipal area as State Commissioner for the merger of Wilhelmshaven and Rüstringen. This new city ​​assigned to the Free State of Oldenburg then served as Lord Mayor until 1945. During this activity, his main focus was on the interests of the Navy , but he largely ignored the National Socialist plans to expand Wilhelmshaven into a large city with 400,000 inhabitants.

In his trial chamber proceedings of the main denazification committee for the Oldenburg administrative district, Müller, who had been interned by the British in 1945, was assigned to Group IV in 1949 "without further restrictions". The reason given was that after his removal from office as Delmenhorst State Commissioner (1934), Müller had distanced himself more and more from the NSDAP and then, as Lord Mayor of Wilhelmshaven, worked exclusively as a local politician.

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SURNAME Müller, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1965
Place of death Rastede