Wilhelm Müller (politician, 1908)
Wilhelm Müller (born February 2, 1908 in Hamburg ; † October 27, 1983 ) was a German KPD and SED functionary, resistance fighter against National Socialism and journalist . He was deputy general director of the General German Intelligence Service (ADN), the news agency of the GDR .
Life
Müller, the son of a working-class family, attended primary and foreign language schools . He completed a bank apprenticeship and then worked as a bank clerk in Hamburg, then from 1926 as an employee at the Hamburg-based brokerage company JL Völkers & Sohn, later as an editor . In 1922 he joined the SAJ , in 1925 the KJVD and 1930 the KPD.
After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, he was a functionary in the illegal Hamburg party apparatus of the KPD from 1933 to 1936. He was arrested in October 1936 and sentenced by the People's Court in February 1938 to six years in prison for “preparing for high treason ”. He was first imprisoned in Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp , and from November 1942 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp , where he also worked illegally.
After the end of the war in 1945 he was initially an employee of the OdF main committee in Berlin , then from November on an employee of the KPD district leadership in Mecklenburg . In 1946 he joined the SED. From January 1946 to 1950 he was again active as a journalist, as editor and deputy editor-in-chief or at times as editor-in-chief of the Landes-Zeitung (successor to Erich Glückauf ). Müller then headed the Information Office in Mecklenburg from 1950 to 1952 and was then deputy head of the Information Office in Berlin in 1952/1953. 1953/1954 he was editor-in-chief in the SED press service. From 1954 to 1970 he worked as editor-in-chief and as deputy general director of ADN. In 1970 he retired.
Awards
- Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1956), silver (1968) and gold (1978)
literature
- Michael Minholz, Uwe Stirnberg: The General German Intelligence Service (ADN). Good news for the SED (= Communication and Politics , Volume 27). KG Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-20557-0 , p. 420.
- Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 573.
- Kirsten Nies: Müller, Wilhelm . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany , 25./26. February 1978, p. 5
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter against National Socialism, KPD and SED functionary and editor-in-chief of the ADN |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1983 |