Erwin Müller (politician, 1906)

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Erwin Müller (born March 18, 1906 in Duisburg , † February 27, 1968 in Saarbrücken ) was a German politician ( Zentrum / CVP / SVP / CDU ).

Life

Müller spent the first years of his life in Duisburg, where he also attended elementary school. In 1920 his family moved to Saarbrücken. At the Ludwigsgymnasium he passed his matriculation examination in 1924 and then studied law in Frankfurt , Berlin and Göttingen . Since 1924 he was a member of the Catholic student union KDSt.V. Badenia (Strasbourg) Frankfurt am Main . Müller passed the legal state exams in 1929 and 1933. He then worked as a judge at the Saarbrücken District Court and from 1934 as a lawyer. During the Second World War he fought in Scandinavia and was taken prisoner in March 1945, from which he was released at the end of 1945.

Before the reintegration of the Saar region into the German Reich (1935), Müller was a member of the Center Party and the Saarland German Front . After the war he was involved in local politics in Saarbrücken and from 1946 was chairman and judicial director of the Saarland administrative commission . For the CVP, Müller belonged to the Constitutional Commission of the Saarland and the Legislative Assembly of the Saarland in 1947 and was a member of the Saarland Landtag (1947–1955) during the first two legislative periods , where he also chaired the parliamentary group until 1950. In the Hoffmann II cabinet he took over the office of Minister of Justice in 1951/52, in the Hoffmann III cabinet he was Minister of Finance and Forests and Deputy Prime Minister from 1952 to 1954. In 1954/55 Müller was again Saarland Minister of Justice in the Hoffmann IV cabinet . In addition, he was posted to the Council of Europe (1950–1955) and the ECSC (1952–1955) for the then autonomous Saarland . He was also chairman of the National Olympic Committee of Saarland from 1950 to 1957 .

After the rejection of the European Saar Statute in 1955, Müller temporarily did not take any political office until he was re-elected to the state parliament for the SVP in 1960. In the state parliament, to which he belonged until his death, he was chairman of the SVP parliamentary group from 1960 to 1965. On October 4, 1965, he joined the CDU parliamentary group.

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SURNAME Müller, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saarland politician (Center, CVP, SVP, CDU), Member of the State Parliament, MEP, NOK Chairman
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1968
Place of death Saarbrücken