Otto Müller (priest)
Fr. Otto Müller | |
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Native name | Otto Mueller |
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Ordination | 1894 |
Personal details | |
Born | 1870 |
Died | 12 October 1944 Berlin Police Hospital |
Nationality | German |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Fr. Otto Müller (
Biography
Müller was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1894. He became active in supporting the development of a Christian workers’ movement and in 1918, became president of the West German Federation of the Catholic Workers’ Movement. From 1919 to 1933 he served as a
Following the Nazi takeover, the Catholic Church in Germany sought an accord with the new Government and signed the
Since 1927, Fr. Müller was involved in the resistance against National Socialism.[3] He involved himself in planning the reorganisation of post-Nazi Germany with leading Resistance figures like the Christian trade unionists Jakob Kaiser, Bernhard Letterhaus and the Blessed Nikolaus Gross, in whom the Catholic religion had motivated a determination to resist.[2][4] On 20 July 1944, the Operation Valkyrie attempt was made to assassinate Adolf Hitler, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters in East Prussia. The plot was the culmination of the efforts of several groups in the German Resistance to overthrow the Nazi government. The failure of both the assassination and the military coup d'état which was planned to follow it led to the arrest of at least 7,000 people by the Gestapo.[5] The Gestapo arrested the Cologne conspirators. Müller, seriously ill, was imprisoned in the Berlin Police Hospital. There he died on 12 October 1944.[2]
See also
References
- German Resistance Memorial Centre; retrieved 29 Sept. 2013
- ^ a b c Otto Müller; German Resistance Memorial Centre; retrieved 29 Sept. 2013
- ^ "Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand - Personenverzeichnis".
- ^ Graml, Mommsen, Reichhardt & Wolf; The German Resistance to Hitler; B. T. Batsford Ltd; London; 1970; p.225
- ^ William L. Shirer; The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich; Secker & Warburg; London; 1960; p. 1393.