{"id":2463,"date":"2026-03-04T00:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T00:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assisijourney.org\/?page_id=2463"},"modified":"2026-03-24T21:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:55:23","slug":"colonel-valentin-mueller","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/assisijourney.org\/?page_id=2463","title":{"rendered":"Colonel\u00a0Valentin\u00a0Mueller"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Commander of Assisi till June 1944<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Bernadette’s grandfather was Dr. Valentin M\u00fcller, a general practitioner. In 1944, as the city commandant of Assisi, he courageously stood up for the city and its people.<\/p>

An Eichst\u00e4tt physician as the savior of Assisi \u2013 Francesco Santucci’s monograph is now available in German translation from the Italian.<\/p>

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Assisi in June 1944:\u00a0<\/p>

The city of Saint Francis and Saint Clare was in great danger. The Allies were pushing the Germans back to the north. A scorched-earth policy was implemented \u2013 priceless monuments of art went up in flames, including the famous Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino. That Assisi, which had been under German military control since September 1943, survived unscathed is thanks to the Eichst\u00e4tt physician Dr. Valentin M\u00fcller.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

It is bishop Nicolini and the „Colonello“ Valentin M\u00fcller, the German commander of Assisi, who deserve credit for saving Assisi from destruction.\u00a0<\/p>

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M\u00fcller came from Zeilitzheim in Lower Franconia and had been practicing medicine in Eichst\u00e4tt since 1933.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Given the dire military situation, both the city commander and the bishop recognized that only expanding the city’s military hospital and officially declaring Assisi a „hospital city“ could save the city.\u00a0<\/p>

M\u00fcller enjoyed high esteem among both Germans and Italians; even the partisans issued the order that „not a hair on his head“ should be harmed.<\/p>

To this day, Assisi expresses its deep gratitude to its savior from Eichst\u00e4tt: A street has been named after Valentin M\u00fcller, and a commemorative plaque has been installed on Viale Vittori Emanuele II.\u00a0<\/p>

In 1982, to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the birth of Saint Francis, a delegation from Assisi had come to Eichst\u00e4tt to lay a bundle of olive branches from Assisi at the tomb of the „Colonello.“\u00a0<\/p>

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Movie based on historical facts and interviewing testimonies by Jona R. Andr\u00e9 Raischl
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in English:\u00a0God\u00b4s Instrument<\/em><\/a><\/p>

in German:\u00a0Mein Assisi<\/a><\/em><\/p>

in Italian:\u00a0Uomo di provvidenza<\/a><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Colonel Valentin M\u00fcller Commander of Assisi till June 1944 Bernadette’s grandfather was Dr. Valentin M\u00fcller, a general practitioner. In 1944, as the city commandant of Assisi, he courageously stood up for the city and its people. An Eichst\u00e4tt physician as the savior of Assisi \u2013 Francesco Santucci’s monograph is now available in German translation from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2463","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assisijourney.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assisijourney.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assisijourney.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assisijourney.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assisijourney.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2463"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/assisijourney.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4330,"href":"https:\/\/assisijourney.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2463\/revisions\/4330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assisijourney.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}