Michael Müller (politician, 1948)

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Michael Müller at the SPD federal party conference in 2015

Michael Müller (born July 10, 1948 in Bernburg / Saale ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 1983 to 2009 he was a member of the German Bundestag and from 2005 to 2009 Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in the Merkel I cabinet .

education and profession

Müller did an apprenticeship as a reinforced concrete worker . On the second-chance education he acquired the High School and then graduated the engineering , the business administration and the social sciences , which he called diploma ended -Betriebswirt.

Political party

Müller has been a member of the SPD since 1966. From 1972 to 1978 he was Deputy Federal Chairman of the Young Socialists . He was spokesman for the parliamentary left , the left wing of the SPD parliamentary group.

MP

From 1974 to 1983 Müller was a member of the city council of Düsseldorf and was there from 1977 managing director of the SPD council group .

From 1983 to 2009 he was a member of the German Bundestag . In the Bundestag elections in 1998 and 2002, he was elected to the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Düsseldorf I constituency and otherwise via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia . From 1992 to 1998 he was chairman of the working group on the environment, nature conservation and reactor safety of the SPD parliamentary group and environmental group spokesman. From 1992 to 1994 he was chairman of the Enquête Commission Protection of people and the environment - assessment criteria and perspectives for environmentally friendly material cycles in industrial society . From 1998 to 2005, Müller was deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group.

Public offices

On November 23, 2005, Müller was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in the federal government led by Chancellor Angela Merkel and held this office until the end of the Merkel I cabinet on October 27, 2009. Between January 2011 and June 2013, at the suggestion of the SPD, he was a member of the study commission Growth, Prosperity, Quality of Life - Paths to Sustainable Business and Social Progress in the Social Market Economy as an expert.

From April 2014 to July 2016 he was one of the two chairmen of the Commission for the Storage of Highly Radioactive Waste Materials, alongside Ursula Heinen-Esser . As such, on the occasion of the split announced by E.ON , he called for the operators of nuclear power plants in Germany to transfer the provisions they had made to the state so that the money could not be lost - for example in the event of bankruptcy.

Honorary positions

Michael Müller is chairman of the environmental association Naturfreunde Deutschlands, which emerged from the labor movement .

He is co-editor of the environmental policy online magazines Klimareporter and movum . He alternates between Hartmut Graßl , Claudia Kemfert , Andreas Knie and Gero Lücking and writes a column for the climate reporter .

Publications

  • Below 2 degrees? What the world climate treaty really brings. Edited with Jörg Sommer, collection of articles, S. Hirzel Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 3-7776-2570-1 .

Web links

Commons : Michael Müller (politician, 1948)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commission “Storage of Highly Radioactive Waste”. Retrieved September 15, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Gerda Hasselfeldt made a similar statement. Rheinische Post of December 3, 2014: Nuclear giants are supposed to hand over provisions (print edition p. B1).
  3. ↑ WDR.de: Eon and RWE are to pay provisions into the fund
  4. ↑ Federal Board of Friends of Nature in Germany | Friends of Nature in Germany | Association for environmental protection, soft tourism, sport and culture. In: naturfreunde.de. Retrieved December 8, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Klimareporter, editor , accessed October 18, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernburg