Fritz Müller-Partenkirchen

Fritz Müller-Partenkirchen (born Friedrich Müller; 24 February 1875 in Munich; 4 February 1942 in Hundham) was a German writer.

From 1892 to 1895, he studied merchant trade and became an accountant, later a teacher of commerce in Partenkirchen. Around the age of 38, he studied law and economics at the University of Zurich.

He attended a lecture by Albert Einstein in 1911 on the theory of relativity, of which he gave a popular report in the newspaper Berliner Tageblatt in 1911. Müller's report on relativity was described by Könneker (2001).

In 1915, the first edition of his World War I stories and experiences was published. In the 1920s, he adopted the artistic name Müller-Partenkirchen and wrote, often in a humorous style, merchant stories and novels. His most successful novel was Kramer & Friemann. Eine Lehrzeit published in 1920. In an accident, Müller-Partenkirchen lost one leg, and the other one was paralyzed.

After the Nazi regime took power, he signed the vow of most faithful allegiance to Adolf Hitler in October 1933 along with 87 other writers. After the war, two of his stories published between 1934 and 1942 were placed on the "list of literature to be expelled" in the Soviet occupation zone in Germany.