Geri Müller

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Geri Müller (2007)

Geri Müller (born October 27, 1960 in Brugg ; legal resident in Turgi ; real name Gerhard Hermann Müller Behrens ) is a Swiss politician ( team Baden , Greens ). From 2013 to 2017 he was mayor of Baden .

biography

Müller grew up in Turgi in Aargau . His father was a carpenter, his mother a housewife. At the age of 15 he was politicized by the nuclear issue, which is why he also demonstrated against the planned Kaiseraugst nuclear power plant . As a young adult, he was imprisoned for six months for conscientious objection to military service .

job

From 1984 to 1987 Geri Müller trained as a psychiatric nurse . From 1988 to 1994 he worked as a freelance filmmaker. In 1989/1990 he looked after a socio-therapeutic residential group. From 1991 to 2005 he was a vocational and secondary school teacher and gave integration and language courses. In 1987 he founded the Association of Artists Gibellina-Arts and in 1991 the Gibellina publishing house and several record labels. Today he works as a freelance consultant in Baden.

politics

career

In Baden , Geri Müller works in the local party team baden . From 1991 to 1993 he was a resident councilor there . From 1995 to 2003 he represented the Green Party in the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau and was on the commissions for “Universities of Applied Sciences”, “Health”, “Division of tasks in the canton-municipalities”, “Administrative tasks and performance review” and “Education, training and culture” active. From 1999 he also held the parliamentary group presidency. In 2003 he was elected to the National Council, where he is a member of the Foreign Policy Commission and the Business Audit Commission. From the end of 2007 to the end of 2009 he chaired the Foreign Policy Commission (APK). In 2010 he ran for the Federal Council on a three-way ticket from his parliamentary group .

In 1999, Müller coordinated the “Global March” against worldwide child labor. Since 2003 he has been President of the Swiss Energy Foundation (SES) and Co-President of the Aargau / Solothurn section of the Swiss Professional Association of Nursing Women and Men (SBK) based in Bern .

From 2006 to 2017, Müller was a city ​​councilor (member of the city government) of the city of Baden. He was initially a vice-officer and was responsible for education. 2013 he was appointed to the post of city Ammann selected, the result of the election of Stephan Attiger be filled in late 2013 to the Executive Council before the expiry of its term had.

On August 18, 2014, Geri Müller was temporarily released from his duties as mayor by the Baden city council. The trigger for this was an affair about naked self-photos at work that Müller had sent, as well as a suspension and questioning of the original recipient of the photos by the Baden city police, triggered by him at the Bern cantonal police. This became known through an article by editor-in-chief Patrik Müller in the newspaper Schweiz am Sonntag . Sacha Wigdorovits , who was described by various media as the mastermind of a campaign against Geri Müller, is considered the trigger for the publication in the matter of the private pictures . Until the situation was clarified, Vice-Captain Markus Schneider took over Müller's duties. On September 2, 2014, Müller decided to continue his office as mayor of Baden, the city council then decided that Vice-Mayor Markus Schneider would temporarily lead the departments and these should later be divided among the other members of the government. Müller could only keep the functions assigned to him by law. At the beginning of November, Müller received the finance and urban development departments back, but the location marketing department was assigned to city ​​councilor Ruth Müri .

On December 4, 2014, he received the satirical award Snowman of the Year , a jury award from the Arosa Humor Festival, for the affair about his nude selfie . Müller's former chat partner was sentenced to a conditional fine in 2016 by the Jura-Seeland public prosecutor's office in Biel . She was found guilty of abuse, defamation, attempted coercion, forgery of documents and unauthorized recording of conversations.

On September 24, 2017, Müller was voted out of town mayor of Baden, as well as a member of the city council.

The Swiss press council sharply criticized the article by editor-in-chief Patrik Müller in Switzerland on Sunday that there was no public interest in the reporting, and that the newspaper would have seriously injured Geri Müller's private and intimate sphere. In 2018, an out-of-court settlement was reached between the AZ Medien publishing house and Geri Müller. AZ Medien and Patrik Müller expressed their regret to Geri Müller for the inconvenience he experienced as a result. The parties have agreed not to disclose the details of the agreement. The criminal proceedings initiated by Geri Müller against Patrik Müller were discontinued by the public prosecutor due to the out-of-court settlement.

Positions

Müller belongs to the left wing of the Greens. The majority of his previous approaches in the National Council dealt with energy policy issues. As a non-member of the Commission for the Environment, Spatial Planning and Energy, however, his influence on environmental policy remained limited.

In addition to environmental issues, Müller is committed to foreign policy issues, especially issues relating to the Middle East conflict . In parliament he is one of the harshest critics of Israel. For his criticism of Israel, Müller was repeatedly criticized by the public, but also within the party. Georg Kohler , professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Zurich, believes that Müller's careless choice of words makes “anti-Semitic statements socially acceptable”. Anti-Semitism researcher Aram Mattioli from the University of Lucerne attests to Müller an “all too uncritical sympathy for certain positions of Hamas and an attitude that is too critical of Israel”. Jan Jirát, a journalist for the left-wing newspaper WOZ Die Wochenzeitung , believes that Müller is someone who "stands by the side of anti-Semites and conspiracy theorists in an unsuspecting and unreflective manner ".

criticism

On December 31, 2008, Geri Müller took part in a rally organized by the Society Switzerland-Palestine as a speaker. This was already criticized in the run-up to the national councils of various parties that also belong to the APK. In their opinion, it is not permissible for the APK president to appear at a demonstration on a foreign policy issue. In the same year, Müller denied that Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was striving to destroy Israel and described Iran as a democracy, which also provoked criticism.

Geri Müller received criticism in 2010 through an interview he gave to the anti-Semitic conspiracy movement “We Are Change Switzerland” (WAC). The background to this was published by the sect researcher Hugo Stamm in the Tages-Anzeiger . The main points of criticism were Müller's doubts about the official version of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and also that after the amateur reporter's claims that the big news agencies were controlled by Jews, he had not distanced himself or objected. He also compared the situation in the Gaza Strip with that of the Holocaust . This kind of Holocaust relativization is called secondary anti-Semitism .

In early 2012, Müller received high-ranking representatives from the Change and Reform Party of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) and the radical Islamist Hamas party , who are on the US Treasury's list of terrorist financing. The so-called SDN list prohibits financial transactions with the three people in the context of the fight against terrorism. When asked, Müller said that the allegations against his guests, including his co-responsibility for anti-Semitic propaganda and the call for suicide bombings, were "not legally confirmed". Although Geri Müller knew of these allegations, he invited his guests to the Bundeshaus.

Web links

Commons : Geri Müller  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile of Gerhard Hermann Müller Behrens. In: monetas.ch. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
  2. ↑ Rico Bandle: Incense sticks for peace. In: Die Weltwoche . February 29, 2012, pp. 28/29.
  3. ↑ a b c Gieri Cavelty: Geri Müller, Hamas and the Jews. In: Aargauer Zeitung . February 14, 2013, accessed February 14, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Pirmin Kramer: Who becomes mayor is not always decided by the voters. In: Aargauer Zeitung. January 27, 2013, accessed January 30, 2013.
  5. ↑ Geri Müller called the Bern police twice. In: Tages-Anzeiger . August 18, 2014.
  6. ↑ René Zeyer : The crisis specialist has failed. In: Basler Zeitung . August 27, 2014.
  7. ↑ Philipp Gut : Protocol of a Human Drama ( Memento from October 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: Die Weltwoche. 20th August 2014.
  8. ↑ City council organizes interim solution. ( Memento from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Media release by the Baden City Council, August 18, 2014.
  9. ↑ Marcel Gyr: Affair with Geri Müller escalated. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 2, 2014, accessed September 2, 2014.
  10. ↑ Müller no longer runs for National Council elections. In: Tages-Anzeiger. November 9, 2014.
  11. ↑ Geri Müller in Arosa awarded the “Snowman of the Year” ( Memento from August 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: Southeastern Switzerland . 4th December 2014.
  12. ↑ a b Surprise in Baden: Geri Müller is clearly eliminated in the Stadtammann race. In: Aargauer Zeitung. September 24, 2017. Retrieved September 24, 2017 .
  13. ^ Rainer Stadler : Press Council on the Geri Müller case. "Switzerland on Sunday" reprimanded. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 22, 2016
  14. ↑ Press Council stands behind Geri Müller. In: Tages-Anzeiger . July 22, 2016
  15. ↑ No. 23/2016: Violation of privacy / Objectively unjustified allegations. In: website of the press council. July 11, 2016
  16. ↑ Ex-Mayor Geri Müller and AZ Medien agree on a comparison. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 11, 2018.
  17. ↑ Marcel Odermatt: Geri Müller: Ehe kaputt. In: Blick.ch . January 20, 2013, accessed February 14, 2013.
  18. ↑ Dominik Feusi: Geri Müller's Nazi comparison meets with harsh criticism - also from the Greens. In: Basler Zeitung . February 20, 2013, p. 16 (archived in World-Media-Watch).
  19. ↑ Baden's Jewish community does not want city mayor Geri Müller ( Memento from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: kipa . February 14, 2014.
  20. ↑ Jan Jirát: Good for bathing - not so good for the world. In: WOZ The weekly newspaper . February 28, 2013, accessed March 7, 2013 .
  21. ^ Demonstrations and criticism of Israeli attacks. In: news.ch. December 31, 2008, accessed January 2, 2009 .
  22. ↑ Philipp Mäder, Gaby Szöllösy: Swastika an anti-Israel demo outraged ( Memento from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: Tages-Anzeiger. January 2, 2009.
  23. ↑ Gieri Cavelty : APK President Müller speaks at demos critical of Israel. The President of the Foreign Affairs Commission demonstrates in front of Israel's embassy. To the annoyance of the National Council colleagues. In: Tages-Anzeiger. December 31, 2008, p. 3 (archived in Nahostfrieden.ch ; PDF; 1.4 MB).
  24. ↑ Pascal Hollenstein: The lone fighter. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. September 13, 2009.
  25. ^ Calmy-Rey's foreign policy ( Memento of December 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: Arena ( Swiss television ). September 12, 2008.
  26. ^ Hugo Stamm : The National Councilors Vischer and Müller with the conspirators. In: Tages-Anzeiger. May 8, 2010, accessed January 14, 2013 .
  27. ↑ Benjamin Weinthal: Kreutner blasts leading Green politicians as anti-Israel. In: The Jerusalem Post . December 5, 2010, accessed January 14, 2013 .
  28. ↑ Dominik Feusi: Anti-Semite friend on the go. The Green National Councilor Geri Müller wants to go to the highest office in Baden ( memento from January 21, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ). In: Basler Zeitung. February 14, 2013, p. 5.
  29. ↑ Erik Ebneter: Geri Müller brings Hamas into the parliament building. In: Basler Zeitung. February 22, 2012, accessed January 14, 2013 .
  30. ↑ Hans Lüthi: Geri Müller to his «Terror» guests: «That doesn't harm me». In: Aargauer Zeitung. December 23, 2012, accessed January 15, 2013 .
  31. ↑ Petra Wessalowski: Controversial meeting with Hamas ( Memento from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: Sunday newspaper . December 23, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Geri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller Behrens, Gerhard Hermann (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politicians (Greens)
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Brugg