Helmut Müller (politician, 1930)

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Helmut Müller (born June 12, 1930 in Reichenberg , Czechoslovakia; † July 19, 2019 in Rüdersdorf near Berlin ) was a functionary of the FDJ and the SED in the GDR . Müller was secretary of the FDJ central council and second secretary of the SED district leadership in Berlin.

Life

After attending primary and secondary school in Kratzau, the son of a textile worker completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Reichenberg from 1944 to the beginning of 1946. As a result of the expulsion of Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia from January 1946, 15-year-old Müller was relocated to the Soviet occupation zone in Tiefenort in Thuringia in one of the first actions in February 1946 . There he found employment as a construction worker in the Merkers potash combine. Müller joined the newly created FDJ in March 1946, and in March 1947 he also became a member of the SED. In 1948 Müller got a job as a secretary in the FDJ district leadership in Eisenach , where he was responsible for the young pioneers and in April 1948 completed a corresponding course at the FDJ state helper school of the children's associations in Thuringia. A trip to the Soviet Union in July 1949 made a lasting impression on Müller . As a member of a fifteen-person study delegation led by Gerhard Heidenreich , he visited Leningrad , Moscow and the Artek pioneer camp during the 14-day tour . During this trip, special attention was paid to the Soviet pioneer organization Vladimir Ilyich Lenin , the Komsomol and the pioneer houses and working groups. As a result of this study trip, some elements such as pioneer houses or central pioneer camps were also transferred to the GDR. In November 1949, Müller moved up to the FDJ state board of Thuringia, where he became deputy head of the department for young pioneers. From July 1950, Müller was the secretary of the FDJ regional management in Thuringia, initially responsible for student matters, and later again for the young pioneers.

In September 1951 the FDJ delegated him to a one-year course at the Komsomol University in Moscow, where he shared a room with Konrad Naumann for half a year . At the fourth parliament of the FDJ in May 1952, Müller was presented as a candidate for the central council of the FDJ. After his return from Moscow in October 1952, following the district reforms in the GDR, he was appointed first secretary of the newly created FDJ district leadership in Gera . By virtue of his office, Müller also became a member of the SED district leadership in Gera, in which he was also a candidate for the district leadership office in 1954/1955, as well as a member of the Gera district assembly. In 1955 Müller moved to Berlin, where he was appointed to the Central Council of the FDJ, of which he was a member until 1966. He was elected to three parliaments of the FDJ, from V to VII, each as secretary and member of the office of the Central Council of the FDJ. There he started out as head of the culture department. Later he was responsible for associations / organizational issues, from March 1957 for management issues and from May 1959 for agitation and propaganda . In addition, Müller ran for the first time in 1958 for the FDJ as a member of the People's Chamber , which he represented in this parliament until 1967. In parallel to his career as a functionary, he completed a distance learning course from 1960 to 1962 at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . In 1966, following a decision by the SED Central Committee secretariat, Müller was delegated to the SED district leadership in Berlin, where he initially headed the party organs department until 1971 as the successor to Siegfried Lorenz . This function also resulted in membership in the East Berlin city council from 1967 on. Subsequently, Müller became the successor of Konrad Naumann, who was now appointed first secretary, and second secretary of the SED district leadership in Berlin. At the same time, from 1971 to 1976, as a so-called Berlin representative, he was again a member of the Volkskammer and a member of its youth committee. 1976 Müller was on the IX. SED party congress elected as a member of the Central Committee, the highest possible level in the party hierarchy at the time. In the course of the dismissal of 1st Secretary Konrad Naumann in November 1985, Müller temporarily headed the district leadership until Günter Schabowski was confirmed as a new 1st Secretary by the SED Politburo .

On November 27, 1989, he was dismissed from his position, but initially remained an employee of the SED district leadership until January. Between March and June 1990, Müller then worked in a HO wholesaler for shoes before taking early retirement in July 1990 at the age of 60. In June 1991 Müller resigned from the PDS . In September 1993, a trial against Müller took place before the civil criminal chamber of the Berlin Regional Court , charged with inciting election fraud . Müller was sentenced to one year suspended prison sentence.

Honors

As a high party official, Müller received numerous state awards.

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  1. ↑ History: Former SED Vice President Helmut Müller in Berlin died . Berliner Morgenpost , July 21, 2019, archived from the original on July 22, 2019 .;
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SED functionary, MdV, 2nd secretary of the SED district leadership in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenberg , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH 19th July 2019
Place of death Rüdersdorf near Berlin