Christa Müller (politician, 1956)

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Christa Müller (born May 9, 1956 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German politician (first SPD , then Die Linke ). Until 2011 she was family policy spokeswoman for the left in Saarland .

Private and professional life

Christa Müller comes from the family of a hotel owner from Frankfurt am Main. She attended a language school in 1975 and then studied business administration and economics from 1976 to 1981. She completed her academic training with a degree in economics and business administration.

In 1993 Müller married Oskar Lafontaine , with whom she had a son who was born in 1997. On November 12, 2011, Lafontaine announced that they had been "separated for some time". The marriage was divorced in February 2013.

Political career

In 1979 Müller became a member of the SPD and was deputy district chairman of the Jusos in Hesse. She then worked for the Economic and Social Committee of the EU in Brussels, moved to the Hessian state parliament in 1985 and in 1987 worked in the state chancellery under the then Hessian Prime Minister Holger Börner . In 1988, she was appointed senior councilor at the SPD party headquarters in Bonn (barracks) .

On June 18, 2005, she and her husband Oskar Lafontaine transferred from the SPD to the WASG . After this was absorbed in the party Die Linke , Christa Müller became its family policy spokeswoman in Saarland. Around the beginning of the summer of 2011, she withdrew from party political work.

Political positions

As chairwoman of the Intact association (since 1997), she is committed to fighting female genital mutilation primarily in Africa , where significant successes have already been achieved.

In her position as family policy spokeswoman for the left in Saarland, she recently adopted a position that deviated from the line of her party on the issue of looking after small children . Christa Müller gave home care by her parents priority over a daycare place . She supported statements made by the Augsburg Bishop Walter Mixa : "Anyone who encourages mothers through financial benefits to give their toddlers to state care shortly after birth degrades them to a 'birthing machine'." She criticized Minister Ursula von der Leyen as "im Interest of the German economy ”, which it opposes a“ left politics ”.

In the blurb of her book Dein Kind will dich - Genuine Freedom of Choice through Parenting Salary, published in 2007 by the Sankt Ulrich Verlag of the Diocese of Augsburg, she wrote, among other things: Wages cannot rise and companies can continue to increase their profits. ”In a “ precarious debate ” initiated by SPD chairman Kurt Beck in autumn 2007 , Müller said that the“ reproduction of the asocial milieu ”had to be limited by state family counseling. Thereupon the North Rhine-Westphalian state spokeswoman for the Left referred to Müller as "unbearable" and Heiko Maas , SPD chairman in Saarland, Müller as a "coalition obstacle".

At the federal party conference of the Left in May 2008, Müller did not get a majority for the application for an emancipatory family policy of the party Die Linke of the Saarland state association. In it, she demanded an educational salary subject to social security contributions in the first three years of the child's life of 1,600 euros per month and up to the sixth year of life 1,000 euros for all parents, "on this financial basis, the parents can then decide for themselves what they do with the money" . Instead, the party congress passed a resolution that opposed “statements that outside care is harmful to the children” and objected to “an educational salary demanded by different conservative circles and also by the Saarland state board,” that it would “force poorer families to care for them at home to improve their income ”.

Publications

  • Rehabilitation and development of East German industry: the responsibility of the Treuhandanstalt , Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn 1992, ISBN 3-86077-160-4
  • Chances and dangers of the European economic and monetary union , Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Bonn 1992, ISBN 3-86077-117-5
  • Employment companies , Dietz Verlag, Bonn 1992, ISBN 3-8012-0179-1
  • Oskar Lafontaine, Christa Müller: Don't be afraid of globalization. Prosperity and work for everyone. Dietz, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3801202658 , also published in Czech, Romanian and Spanish
  • Attention housewife! , Rowohlt Tb. 2006, ISBN 978-3499621611
  • Your child wants you. Real freedom of choice through educational salary , St. Ulrich-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 386744014X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ relationship with Wagenknecht: lafo in Love Spiegel Online on November 12, 2011
  2. ↑ tagesspiegel.de November 15, 2011
  3. ↑ http://www.saarzeitung.de/saarlouis/wallerfangen/Bis-die-Klingen-zerbrafen-sind-Mit-ihrem-Verein-Intact-kampft-Christa-Mueller-seit-20-Jahren-gegen-weibliche-Genital -Circumcision, 23151
  4. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/deutschland/kritik-an-lafontaines-ehefrau-linkspartei-vizechefin-mueller-vertritt-antiquierter-frauenbild/1012380.html , Tagesspiegel of August 13, 2007
  5. ^ Spiegel Online: Why Christa Müller is doing something together with Bishop Mixa
  6. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: Mixa gets support from the far left  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.augsburger-allgemeine.de  
  7. ^ FAZ: The Eva Herman of the Left
  8. ^ Spiegel Online: Boos for Christa Müller - ntv: Humiliation for Müller
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Christa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), wife of Oskar Lafontaine
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main