Andreas Müller (judge)

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Andreas Müller (born July 5, 1961 in Meppen ) is a German youth judge in Bernau near Berlin .

Live and act

Müller comes from the Emsland ; his parents ran a bakery in Meppen . He wrote about his brother and father: “One of them was smoking, the other was drinking.” Today he lives in Glienicke / Nordbahn . He is divorced and has two daughters.

In 1981, Müller passed his Abitur at the Marianum high school in Meppen.

After studying law and subsequent legal clerkship in Berlin, Andreas Müller became a judge in the state of Brandenburg in 1994, initially as a deputy judge from Münster (North Rhine-Westphalia) in Frankfurt (Oder) and Strausberg . Since 1997 Müller has worked as a judge at the district court in Bernau near Berlin , most of the time exclusively as a youth judge.

He caused a nationwide sensation when it became known in 2000 that, in addition to harsh arrest sentences , he banned neo-Nazis from wearing combat boots , which he classified as weapons, as a condition of probation . He also had a 15-year-old woman who publicly showed the Hitler salute visit a mosque in Berlin-Kreuzberg and eat kebab with young Turks . Since then, Müller has been a frequent guest in television programs on the subject of youth violence , such as Hart aber fair and Anne Will , as well as at lectures.

In 2002 he was nominated by the PDS as a non-party candidate for a direct mandate in the Bundestag election 2002 in the Bundestag constituency Märkisch-Oderland - Barnim II . The electoral district was won by the SPD candidate Petra Bierwirth . In the taz , however, he said afterwards: "Incidentally, for the last 20 years I have been closer to Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen or the left in the SPD anyway ."

In 2004 he made a 30-minute documentary about his work for the television station Phoenix .

In 2010 Die Welt reported that in Bernau near Berlin - formerly one of Brandenburg's neo-Nazi strongholds - no crime with a right-wing extremist background had been committed for years, and brought this fact into direct connection with Müller's judgments.

On September 8, 2013, in the issue of Tatort U-Bahn - powerless against youth violence? the broadcast Günther Jauch his first book End with Social Romanticism . Originally it was supposed to get the title Combat Boots, Cannabis and Depression . It is strongly autobiographical; in it he keeps reminding of Kirsten Heisig's successful title The End of Patience .

Müller was a friend and colleague of the lawyer Kirsten Heisig, who died in 2010, who particularly emphasizes him in her posthumously published book The End of Patience - Consistent Against Young Violent Offenders .

Müller is regarded as a “deterrent” and “troublemaker in the name of justice”.

In September 2015, Müller published his second book, Kiffen und Kriminalität , in which he addresses one of his big topics, the legalization of cannabis .

In September 2019, Müller suspended two criminal proceedings for possession of small quantities of cannabis. He stated that he considers all provisions of the Narcotics Act to be unconstitutional, which make the illegal traffic of cannabis products criminal. On April 20, 2020, Müller announced that on the basis of these cases he had sent a 140-page submission to the Federal Constitutional Court so that it could review the constitutionality.

position

Andreas Müller calls on the judiciary to introduce general prevention for young people, prompt sentencing and the "educational judge". He is also committed to the clearance of cannabis and opposes claims that it is a gateway drug . He justifies this commitment not least with the alcohol addiction of his deceased father and the heroin addiction of his four years older brother. At Phoenix, he corrected the moderator and said it was not heroin addiction, but criminalization. He is also a board member of LEAP ( Law Enforcement Against Prohibition ) Deutschland e. V. , which advocates the legalization of drugs .

criticism

Criticism of Müller's positions came primarily from the ranks of the German Association for Juvenile Courts and Juvenile Courts (DVJJ). So named Theresa Höynck Müller's "Education Judge" as a "lay summary"; Christian Pfeiffer calls the work "horror literature". Manfred Günther tears the title extensively.

Fonts

  • (with Carsten Tergast): No more social romanticism. A youth judge takes stock . Herder, Freiburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-451-30909-0 .
  • (with Carsten Tergast): Smoking weed and crime. The youth judge takes stock . Herder, Freiburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-451-31276-2 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Müller: No more social romanticism. 2013, p. 15
  2. ↑ a b c Michael Mielke: A troublemaker in the name of justice. Walk with juvenile judge Müller. In: Berliner Morgenpost . January 8, 2012, accessed November 1, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Prominent youth judge Andreas Müller (Abi 81) visiting the Marianum. October 10, 2014, accessed May 14, 2020 .
  4. ^ A b Anne Will - broadcast on October 31, 2012 in the first program
  5. ^ A judge against neo-Nazis: Right-wing extremists under control. In: Contrasts . Retrieved November 1, 2012 .
  6. ↑ a b Sandra Dassler: There is no point stroking skinheads on the bald head. In: Der Tagesspiegel . November 8, 2010, accessed November 1, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Shut up, you victim - who will stop the young and merciless violent criminals? Broadcast on May 26, 2011. In: Hart but fair (Link to upload on YouTube ) . Retrieved November 1, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Threat is part of the job . In: Weser-Kurier , March 1, 2014, p. 2; interview
  9. ↑ a b Final result of the Bundestag constituency 59 Märkisch-Oderland - Barnim II. October 2, 2002, archived from the original on September 28, 2013 ; Retrieved September 8, 2013 .
  10. ↑ a b Helmut Uwer: "Red Judge Merciless" wants to get direct mandate. First green, then red, now independent. But Andreas Müller is fighting for a direct mandate for the PDS in Brandenburg. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. August 12, 2002, accessed November 1, 2012 .
  11. ↑ a b Plutonia Plarre: "I was often on the hit list". In: the daily newspaper. March 15, 2004, accessed November 1, 2012 .
  12. ↑ Dominic Egizzi (screenplay and direction): A man takes action. The youth judge from Bernau. Report, 30 min. Phoenix , November 10, 2004, accessed November 1, 2012 .
  13. ↑ Freia Peters: Juvenile judge Müller defends Kirsten Heisig's legacy. Following the example of the Berlin judge, Andreas Müller passes severe sentences in Bernau. The crime rate drops significantly. In: The world. December 29, 2010, accessed November 1, 2012 .
  14. ↑ Müller: No more social romanticism. 2013, p. 12
  15. ^ Heinrich Wefing : The deterrent. Andreas Müller is a youth criminal justice judge and is passionate about it - to the limits of his resilience . In: The time . No. 42 , 2013 ( online ).
  16. ↑ Press release website of the Bernau District Court. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
  17. ↑ Phoenix September 7, 2019
  18. ↑ LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) Germany eV: Board of Directors, Members: Speakers, Members: Supporters. Law Enforcement Against Prohibition , accessed December 4, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Youth Welfare , Issue 6/2013 (see "Literature"). The criminologist Wolfgang Heinz differentiates nonetheless, but confronts Müller's theses with the state of research and finds no evidence for the central allegations and advocates upgrading the training and further education of juvenile judges from a target (§ 37 JGG) to a mandatory provision.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German youth judge
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Meppen