The doctor of law Kurt Müller was taken into “protective custody” in 1935 and could no longer work as an attorney after his release. As a reaction, he studied theology. In 1942 he took over as head of the Reformed Congregation in Stuttgart-Degerloch and became managing director of the Ecclesiastical Theological Society, a working group in the Protestant church in Württemberg, which was close to the Confessional Church. In conjunction with friends in Berlin, Müller began to help persecuted Jews. Along with his wife Elisabeth, other helpers in his parish and in Württemberg, Müller supported a number of Jews living “illegally,” including Cioma Schönhaus, Max and Ines Krakauer, Margarete Knewitz, and Margarete Mittelbach.
After the war, Müller’s address was known among “non-Aryan” Christians returning from Theresienstadt to Stuttgart, who asked him for help. In 2012 Kurt Müller was posthumously honored by the Israeli Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.