Günther Müller (politician)

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Günther Ernst Walther Müller (born September 27, 1934 in Passau , † February 27, 1997 in Bonn ) was a German politician. The former chairman of the Young Socialists represented the SPD and CSU in the Bundestag from 1965 to 1994 . His change of party and his rather unsuccessful candidacy for the office of mayor of Munich attracted attention in 1972.

Life

After graduating from high school, Müller first studied physical exercise at the Bavarian Sports Academy in Munich-Grünwald . Then he studied history, journalism and German at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in which he in 1964 with the graduation to the Dr. phil. finished. His dissertation was on " King Max II and the social question."

Müller joined the SPD in 1954. From 1956 he was state chairman of the Socialist German Student Union (SDS) in Bavaria , from 1957 to 1960 district chairman of the Young Socialists in southern Bavaria , in 1961 he was initially deputy and in 1963 federal chairman of the Jusos ; he held this office until 1967. After completing his studies, he entered the administrative service of the city of Munich and worked for the city library and the Munich adult education center.

Müller was elected to the German Bundestag for the SPD in 1965 and 1969 in constituency 207, Munich-South . In 1967 he was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Assembly of the Western European Union . Until 1971 he was also chairman of the Bavarian state group of the SPD parliamentary group.

Müller was also a member of the board of directors of FC Bayern Munich in the 1960s . In November 1969 he played in Reims in the first international football match of the Bundestag selection against the parliamentarians from France.

Within the party, Günther Müller increasingly represented the right wing of the SPD and particularly excelled in the wing battles of the formerly torn Munich SPD. When the long-time SPD mayor of Munich, Hans-Jochen Vogel, took over the leadership of the Bavarian state SPD , Müller did not succeed in asserting himself against Georg Kronawitter, who also had party rights, in the fight for district chairmanship.

In the Bundestag, in the vote of no confidence in Willy Brandt on April 27, 1972, he put his relationship with the party to the test when he took part in the vote, contrary to instructions from the parliamentary group. Thereupon Müller was excluded from the parliamentary group.

In Munich, Müller founded the “Social Democrats 72” for the upcoming local elections. When the mayor of Munich was elected on June 11, 1972, Müller, who was fighting with "CSU-like slogans", received only 2.5% - the SD72 only achieved 1.7%. “Third power” and “like the FDP in Bonn”, that's how Müller interpreted the election result, which earned him a place in Munich's town hall until 1978 .

After joining the CSU in Bonn on September 19, 1972, he was accepted into the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. Shortly before the 1972 federal election , he published the pamphlet Red Cell Germany or What Do the Young Socialists Really Want? , in which he advocated the basic thesis that the Jusos would drive the SPD with their radicalization before them, and accused the SPD party executive of silent complicity instead of the harsh demarcation demanded by them. He wrote about the party, which was supposedly in the hands of the Jusos, that it "adheres well to the communist global strategy".

Nevertheless, he was re-elected to the Bundestag on November 19, 1972 on the CSU state list. From 1976 until his resignation in 1994 he represented the Lower Bavarian constituency of Rottal-Inn / Dingolfing-Landau . He later became a lecturer in political science and a consultant for planning issues at the Hanns Seidel Foundation , which is close to the CSU , which also entailed trips abroad such as to Paraguay , Togo and South Africa . He was also vice president of the Southeast Europe Society for a while .

On June 25, 1979, he was awarded the First Class Cross of Merit, and on March 24, 1986 as part of an upgrade, the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

In 1988/89 and 1992/93 he was a member of the European Parliament . On February 27, 1997, he died of a heart attack in Bonn.

Works

  • King Max II and the social question. Dissertation 1964.
  • The future of social democracy. Conception for the future. Hamburg 1968.
  • The 1969 Bundestag election. Günter Olzog Verlag, Munich - Vienna 1969.
  • Red Cell Germany - Or what do the Young Socialists really want? Seewald Verlag, Stuttgart 1972.
  • Clean air - saving forest and people. 1984.
  • Barrel without ground. The Eurocracy of Brussels and our money. Munich 1994.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kicker sportmagazin of November 10, 1969, p. 16
  2. ↑ In the case of a “constructive vote of no confidence”, the candidate needs an absolute majority of the MPs - in contrast to the majority of MPs present. The SPD / FDP coalition at that time wanted to largely exclude any votes from dissenters in favor of Rainer Barzel by reducing the number of members taking part in the vote to a minimum, such as members of the cabinet .
  3. ↑ Sepp Bindei: "Let's go, pack mas" , Die Zeit , May 12, 1972.
  4. ↑ a b Schorsch and Maria , Die Zeit , June 16, 1972.
  5. ↑ SPD / Munich: With a lot of trara , Der Spiegel , April 25, 1977
  6. ↑ Thilo Scholle, Jan Schwarz: "Whose world is the world?" History of the Jusos . With a foreword by Kevin Kühnert . 2nd Edition. Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf. Bonn , Bonn 2019, ISBN 978-3-8012-0564-5 , p. 162 .
  7. ^ Bernd C. Hesslein : Warner, Weismacher and Wichtigtuer. In: The time . November 17, 1972. Retrieved July 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Günther Ernst Walther (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and politician (SPD, CSU), Member of the Bundestag, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Passau
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1997
Place of death Bonn