Josef Müller

Trial Decision

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  Landgericht – Schwurgericht

Mosbach (Baden)

The following took part in the session of the court on 24^th April 1961. 

The accused Franz Josef Müller born in 1910 in Mossbach is sentenced to prison on the following charges:

• Murder in 22 cases

• Incitement to murder in 58 cases

• Accessory to murder in 5 cases

• Manslaughter in 4 cases

He is found not guilty of murder in the cases 5, 8 13 and 18 of the opening judgement. The accused loses his civil rights for life.  The accused is to bear the cost of the case insofar as he has been condemned: the rest is for the account of the state.

Grounds

The accused Franz Josef Müller was born in 1910 in Mosbach at the 18^th of 19 children of the deceased David Müller and Rosa nee Hempfling. He grew up in his parents’ house and attended school in his native town 1917- 1925. He was an average pupil. He left from the 8^th year without having had to repeat any year.

He was apprenticed as a bookbinder and picture framer at the firm of Bosch in Mosbach. Late in 1928 he made his journeyman –piece and with intervals determined by periods of unemployment, worked for his apprentice master until 1939. Because he was without work, he was a volunteer from late 1933 until spring 1934 with the Reichsarbeitsdienst. After that he was again unemployed. From 1.6.1935 until March 1936 he was a guard in the bookbinder workshop of the prison in Schwabisch Hall.

 

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