Willy Müller (politician, 1903)

Willy Müller (born October 10, 1903 in Laufen BL , Switzerland ; † September 19, 1976 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) was a German SPD politician .

Life and work

After graduating from secondary school, Müller attended the state college for economics and administration in Berlin and then worked as a commercial clerk in Düren . From 1925 to 1933 he was managing director of the union federation of employees . After the National Socialists came to power , he was dismissed for political reasons and found a job in the milling industry. From 1943 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier .

From 1945 onwards, Müller initially worked as an authorized signatory and later as director and personally liable partner of the Nibelungen mill in Worms .

Political party

In the Weimar Republic , Müller had been a member of the Reich Board of the Young Democrats since 1925 , to which he had belonged since 1922. In 1928 he joined the DDP . Through their union with the Young German Order , he came to the German State Party, of which he remained a member until it was dissolved in 1933. He was also involved in the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . In 1946 he joined the SPD.

MP

Müller was a member of the German Bundestag from 1949 to 1969. In parliament he represented the constituency of Worms , where he was always directly elected.

The Stasi noted in 2013 that the Ministry of State Security to Müller files docked with a continuous flow of information. "Müller probably did not consciously cooperate with the HV A, but rather was skimmed off under a legend."

Web links

Entry on the website of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ^ BStU : The German Bundestag 1949 to 1989 in the files of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR. Opinion to the German Bundestag in accordance with Section 37 (3) of the Stasi Records Act, Berlin 2013, p. 229. (PDF) ( Memento from November 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )