Count, Karl von Möller AOL O (11 October 1876 – 21 February 1943) was an officer, journalist, author and politician from Banat. He was an enthusiastic supporter of Hitler's National Socialism. In 1932, he published the antisemitic newspaper "Der Stürmer" in Timișoara, an imitation of the German Nazi publication. He was married to Margarete Jung, with whom he had two children. Life and early work The von Möller family is believed to be from the Lüneburg Heath. Karl von Möller's grandfather volunteered in the Wars of Liberation and was disarmed in Sibiu (Transylvania). Von Möller's grandfather is believed by some to have been an early developer of the camera who is generally not given credit because he didn't submit a patent application on a timely basis. His father came to Vienna from Sibiu. Karl von Möller was born in Vienna, where he attended the cadet school and the war school after high school. During the First World War, he served as a major and chief of staff of the 34th Infantry Division, Banater Division, on first the Serbian and then the Galician fronts. Starting in 1916, he served as a lieutenant colonel and later as colonel in Hungarian Infantry Regiment No. 65 on the Eastern Front. He was awarded the Order of Leopold. It is believed that his wife and children fled Romania at the end of the war and kept a private life somewhere overseas. Politician After the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy in 1918, he left the army as a colonel and went to Timișoara, where he campaigned for the political and cultural equality of Romanian Germans in the field of national politics. On May 9, 1919, Karl von Möller co-founded the German-Swabian Cultural Association. It was led by chairman Johann Junker and executive chairman Michael Kausch. In 1919, Möller was elected the second mayor of Timișoara. From 1919 to 1926, he was a senator in the Romanian upper house in Bucharest, representing Banat Swabia. Karl von Möller joined the "Volksgemeinschaft" together with Josef Gabriel in 1920. In 1920, he began making trips to Germany and gave lectures in Saxony, Westphalia, Baden, Württemberg, Thuringia, Berlin and Munich. Since he had contact with National Socialists in 1923, he is considered an early supporter of Adolf Hitler. After his return, he became chief editor of the "Banat German newspaper". He was a member of the "German People's Council". Karl von