Erhard O. Müller

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Erhard Otto Müller (born March 20, 1955 in Bünde , Westphalia ; † May 13, 2008 in Riga ) was a German social scientist, journalist and publicist.

Müller grew up on the Wittekindshof in Bad Oeynhausen and completed a social science degree in Bielefeld after graduating from high school . Since 1990 he lived in Berlin. Early on, he became an opponent of authoritarian and fascist tendencies. He became a founding member of the Green Party . In 1990 EO Müller was instrumental in the negotiations between the West German Greens and the East German Alliance 90 for the purpose of a joint list for the federal election . From 1991 to 1992 he was a member of the founding council of the Bündnis 90 party.

Even in his youth, Müller developed a pronounced linguistic talent with which he later took on numerous journalistic activities.

1990–1998 he was editor of Bündnis 2000 , which in 1994 was renamed Forum Bürgerbewegung . From 1994–1998 he was a board member of the “House of Democracy” association in Berlin, which has since been renamed “ House of Democracy and Human Rights ”. From 1995 until his death, he was editor-in-chief of the magazine " Zukunfts" (published by Netzwerk-Zukunft , among others ).

Since 1997, Müller has designed, coordinated and moderated various round tables , networks, etc. on the topics of Agenda 21 , participatory budgeting and civil society . Since 2004, Müller has been editor-in-chief of the magazine for direct democracy ( ZfdD ) and was also a member of the board of directors of Mehr Demokratie , the magazine's publisher, from 2006-2008 .

In 2008 he started working for the foundation , with which he was already connected through previous projects.

Erhard O. Müller died on May 14, 2008 in Riga . The day before he had given a lecture there as part of a conference.

Fonts (selection)

  • God & the world. Religion in the Age of Postmodernism or: Why We Need a New Reformation, Berlin 2007 (The 331 tightly printed typescript is available in the archive for alternative literature in Duisburg).
  • Citizens do the budget: guidelines for designing participatory budgeting in cities and municipalities / Erhard O. Müller. (Foundation Cooperation) Bonn 2006
  • Future research and companies: practice, methods, perspectives / Z_Punkt GmbH, Büro für Zukunftsgestaltung (Ed.). Klaus Burmeister ... (Ed. Erhard O. Müller. Translated by Jörg Rampacher) Essen 2002

literature

  • Thomas Loy: Erhard Otto Müller (born 1955). "At one hundred I'll be Federal President" . In: Der Tagesspiegel . August 1, 2008 ( online [accessed May 14, 2018]).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Memorial service for (Erhard Otto) EO Müller in the House of Democracy on May 31, 2008 - obituaries and pictures (PDF; 3.8 MB), pp. 28–29
  2. ↑ Peter Schindler: Data Handbook on the History of the German Bundestag 1949 to 1999 , Baden-Baden: Nomos 1999, Vol. 1, p. 86

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personal data
SURNAME Müller, Erhard O.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Erhard Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist, journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Frets
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 2008
Place of death Riga