Edda Mueller

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Edda Müller (born July 23, 1942 in Sorau , Niederlausitz ) is a German political scientist . She was a ministerial official and from 1994 to 1996 she was a non-party Minister for Nature and the Environment of Schleswig-Holstein in the Simonis I cabinet . After 2000 she held other public offices, such as several years as a board member of the Federation of German Consumer Organizations. From June 2010 she was chairwoman of Transparency International Germany .

Life

After Germans fled and expelled from Central and Eastern Europe in 1945–1950 , Edda Müller's family went to Meißen , where her father set up a chemical production company. When the first expropriations occurred in the GDR , the family decided to go to West Berlin in 1951 .

After graduating from high school on the Lower Rhine , Edda Müller completed a traineeship at the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , where she worked as a student during the semester break. From 1962 she studied newspaper science and modern history in Munich. In 1963 she moved to the Free University of Berlin to study political science .

In Berlin, Müller was active as an escape helper for East Germans. Since she had a West German identity card and, unlike the West Berliners, was allowed to travel to East Berlin, she was approached to provide courier services. When she wanted to give eight East Berlin students the details of their escape, she was arrested while crossing the border to West Berlin. It turned out that those who wanted to flee had already been arrested, as there were two informers among them who had followed the preparations for the escape and then betrayed it. Müller was sentenced to one year in prison and then released to the west via the Bornholmer Strasse border crossing .

Müller then continued her studies in political science at the Free University of Berlin with a focus on institutions and comparative government. In 1968 she completed her studies with a diploma . In 1971/1972 she graduated from the École nationale d'administration (ENA) in Paris and did an internship at the Préfecture du Gard in Nîmes and at the Commissariat général du Plan in Paris.

After a short time as a research assistant for a member of the Bundestag , she joined the constitutional department of the Federal Ministry of the Interior in 1970 . From 1973 to 1975 she belonged to the planning department of the Federal Chancellery , but then returned to the Federal Ministry of the Interior. In 1977 she moved to the Federal Environment Agency . In 1978 she was responsible for the development of the Blue Angel eco-label .

In 1985, she was a management scientific dissertation on the subject of "inner world of environmental policy: social-liberal environmental policy - (Ohn) undergoes organization?" To Dr. rer. publ. PhD .

In 1987 she took over a position in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, which had been newly founded the year before . In 1991 she took over the management of the sub-department for basic issues in the industrial and leisure society and climate policy .

From 1997 to 1998 she was head of the climate policy department of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy and then until 2000 Vice Director of the European Environment Agency in Copenhagen .

Edda Müller is honorary professor at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer , deputy chairwoman of the environmental label jury , member of the Hamburg and Berlin climate protection advisory boards . Edda Müller is a Fellow for Politics and Public Affairs at the controversial Quadriga University in Berlin .

Public offices

On March 4, 1994, she was appointed Minister for Nature and the Environment to the state government of Schleswig-Holstein led by Prime Minister Heide Simonis . After the SPD lost its absolute majority in the state elections in 1996 and the new coalition partner Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen claimed its portfolio, it left the state government on April 22, 1996.

From 2001 to 2007 she was a member of the Council for Sustainable Development , which was founded by the then Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder .

From 2001 to July 2007 she was a board member of the Federation of German Consumer Organizations (vzbv).

She was a member of the Commission for Sustainability in Financing Social Security Systems ( Rürup Commission ), which existed from 2002 to 2003 .

Edda Müller was a member of the Board of Directors of Stiftung Warentest until March 31, 2008 .

From June 2010 she was chairwoman of Transparency International Germany . On June 15, 2019, she no longer stood as a candidate at the general meeting. Hartmut Bäumer is his successor . Since March 2014 she has been a member of the ADAC's advisory board for the reform process .

Edda Müller joined the FDP in the 1960s and has been non-party since 1993 .

Awards (selection)

Publications

  • Inner world of environmental policy. Social-liberal environmental policy - (without) power through organization? , Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1986, ISBN 3-531-11832-3
  • Organizational structure and fulfillment of tasks. Comments on the ministerial organization. In: DÖV 1986, pp. 10-15.
  • Basic lines of modern consumer policy. In: Supplement to the newspaper Das Parlament . From politics and contemporary history . March 2001

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edda Müller, chairwoman of Transparency International , Jung & Naiv: episode 316, minute 3:40
  2. ^ Tilo Jung : Edda Müller, Chairwoman of Transparency International - Episode 316. July 16, 2017, accessed on July 16, 2017 .
  3. ^ Radio show FIGARO meets ... MDR FIGARO from August 10, 2011.
  4. ↑ https://www.blauer-engel.de/sites/default/files/pages/downloads/presse/grundartikel-menschen-hinter-dem-blauen-engel.pdf
  5. ↑ http://d-nb.info/860611590
  6. ↑ ZAPP criticizes the commitment of journalists to the new Quadriga University September 17, 2009
  7. ↑ Heiko Hilker: MDR editor-in-chief Wolfgang Wissensemich should keep his distance from PR consultants. Author's blog Carta from October 11, 2009.
  8. ↑ Conflict of Interest. Transparency boss works for PR forge. Spiegel Online from July 4, 2010.
  9. ^ The Rürup Commission: Brief portrait of the members on faz.net, August 25, 2003; Retrieved March 4, 2003
  10. ^ Stiftung Warentest: Annual report 2008 , page 125
  11. ↑ Transparency International Germany eV: Transparency Germany has elected a new board - Hartmut Bäumer is the new chairman. Retrieved June 17, 2019 .
  12. ↑ ADAC Advisory Board starts work on the ADAC website. Retrieved June 26, 2016.
  13. ↑ Christiane Grefe: Mrs. Müller starts. The time no. 43/2001
  14. ↑ Professor Dr. Edda Müller receives the International TÜV Rheinland Global Compact Award. resseportal.de, September 4, 2014, accessed on September 5, 2014 .
  15. ^ Max Friedlaender Prize , accessed on June 4, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Edda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and political officer
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Sorau , Lower Lusatia