Émile Muller

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Émile Muller (born April 20, 1915 in Mulhouse , Alsace-Lorraine , † November 11, 1988 ibid) was a French social democratic politician .

Muller initially worked as a typesetter and then as director of a printing company. He was politically active and joined the social democratic party Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière . For a long period, from 1956 to 1981, he was mayor of Mulhouse (Fr .: Mulhouse ). From 1958 to 1962 he sat for the Socialists in the General Council of the Haut-Rhin department. In response to the collaboration between the SFIO and the Parti communiste français (Communist Party), he resigned from the party in 1970. He in turn founded together with a former communist, Auguste Lecœur (1911-1992), the Parti de la démocratie socialiste (Social Democratic Party). Between 1973 and 1978 he sat for the Mouvement réformateur (reform movement), a party alliance to which his party belonged, again in the General Council. In December 1973 he was a co-founder and vice-president of the Parti Social-Démocrate . He ran for the 1974 presidential election and received 0.69 percent of the vote. From 1978 to 1983 Muller was again a member of the General Council, this time for the conservative-centrist UDF party .