Karl Leopold von Möller (11 October 1876 – 21 February 1943)[1] was an Austrian military officer, author and German nationalist politician.

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.

In 1920, he began making trips to Germany and gave lectures in Saxony, Westphalia, Baden, Württemberg, Thuringia, Berlin and Munich.

After his application for admission to the Wehrmacht was rejected because he had exceeded the entry age limit, he wrote to Karl Schworm on 7 September 1939: "What would I be happy if fate put me at the front, regardless of whether in west or east!

As editor-in-chief of the 'Banater Deutsche Zeitung', he served the 'Banater Schwäbische Volksgemeinschaft'.” Von Möller's novels portray events from the perspective of their time.

He adopted Nazi ideologies back such as the glorification of struggle, peasantry and the leader's personality, the superiority of the " Aryan race", and the inferiority, moral and physical degradation of the "foreign people": The Germans "must be protected from the teeth of the strange army wolf, who runs up and down the Danube with hanging blood tongues.

[2] After graduating from the Military Academy in Vienna, he was appointed as a senior state officer[clarification needed], and served in several garrisons.

At the end of the war, the regiment suppressed the uprising of the Republicans in Upper Hungary (now Slovakia) after which the unit was put in reserve by the Károlyi government.

In September 1923 Karl von Möller actively participated in a celebration of the 200th anniversary of the migration of the Swabians, organized by the Banat German Movement.

In autumn 1919 he was briefly Deputy Mayor of Timișoara, after which he was elected four times to the Romanian Parliament, in which he served between 1919 and 1927 as a representative of the Swabians in Banat.

[6] In 1927, Möller withdrew from public life and settled in Jimbolia, where he married Margaret Jung, the daughter of a wealthy farmer from the Banat.

Together they had two children, Karlheinz and Erich At the beginning of 1931, he returned to public life, becoming the chief editor of the German-language Jimbolia newspaper, "Hatzfelder Zeitung", and president of the local ethnic community.

From 1931, Fabritius tried to expand the movement in Banat, finding audiences in some circles of dissatisfied and young Swabians who returned from studies in Germany.

It was an imitation of the publication Der Stürmer published in Germany by the German Nazi Julius Streicher who, after World War II, was sentenced to death in the first of the Nuremberg trials, found guilty of crimes against humanity and executed by hanging in 1946.

[10] In 1934 he took the lead of the Provincial Cultural Office of the Renewal Movement (Landeskulturamt der Erneuerungsbewegung) in Sibiu, where he stayed for five years, and lived until his death on 21 February 1943.