Hildegard Muller
Hildegard Müller (born June 29, 1967 in Rheine ) is a German manager, association manager and former politician ( CDU ). From 2005 to 2008 she was Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery and from 1998 to 2002 the first female federal chairwoman of the Junge Union .
education and profession
After graduating from high school in 1987, Hildegard Müller initially trained as a bank clerk at Dresdner Bank in Düsseldorf . Then in 1989 she began studying business administration at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf , which she graduated in 1994 with a degree in business administration. She then returned to Dresdner Bank in 1995 as a department director.
Political activity
Hildegard Müller was initially involved in the Junge Union and was its national chairman from 1998 to 2002. From 1998 to 2008 she was a member of the CDU federal executive committee and since April 2000 a member of the CDU presidium . Since April 2003 she has been a member of the CDU state executive committee of North Rhine-Westphalia .
Since 1999 she has been deputy state chairwoman of the medium-sized and business association of CDU / CSU (MIT) in North Rhine-Westphalia and since 2001 also a member of the federal board of MIT.
Hildegard Müller was a member of the German Bundestag from 2002 to 2008 . She pulled on the 2002 national list North Rhine-Westphalia and 2005 as the directly elected members of the constituency Dusseldorf I in the Bundestag one. In the 2005 Bundestag election she received 44.6% of the first votes . She resigned her mandate on October 1, 2008 in favor of a position at the Federal Association of Energy and Water Management.
On November 22, 2005, Hildegard Müller was appointed Minister of State to the Chancellor and Commissioner for coordination between the federal and state levels in the federal government led by Chancellor Angela Merkel . In addition to the federal-state relations, she was also responsible for the government program to reduce bureaucracy and negotiated the health reform. Because of the birth of her first child, Hildegard Müller suspended her post as Minister of State from October 1, 2006 to December 31, 2007. On September 30, 2008 she resigned from this office. Her successor as Minister of State was Hermann Gröhe .
Lobbying
Worked at Dresdner Bank
During Hildegard Müller's time as chairwoman of the Junge Union, the Junge Union received financial help from its employer, the Dresdner Bank. On the recommendation of the Düsseldorf regional director at the time, Hans-Peter Langen, the Board of Directors of Dresdner Bank decided in August 2000 to provide Hildegard Müller with an earmarked amount of DM 20,000 annually to finance a half-day position at the Junge Union for three years. According to the Junge Union, funding was discontinued with the change in chairmanship from Müller to Philipp Missfelder (2002-2014).
When, at the end of 2004, the CDU politicians Hermann-Josef Arentz and Laurenz Meyer had to resign from their offices because of special payments and perks and a general discussion about the secondary activities of MPs and their transparency began, Hildegard Müller also hit the headlines at the beginning of 2005.
After her election to the German Bundestag in 2002, Hildegard Müller received further reduced salaries from Dresdner Bank. The bank justified this with important special tasks that it carried out in the so-called cultural affairs area . Hildegard Müller dealt with two projects that - at the time - had not yet been completed: the reconstruction of the Frauenkirche in Dresden , as well as the coming to terms with the history of the Dresdner Bank during the Nazi era . Bank Hildegard Müller provided its own office on the Dresdner Bank premises to carry out these tasks.
Activity for the BDEW
The Federal Association of Energy and Water Management e. V. (BDEW), Hildegard Müller was the chairman of his main management board from July 25, 2008 to April 30, 2016. She resigned from this office in order to join the RWE Executive Board.
Work for RWE / innogy
On May 1, 2016, Hildegard Müller moved from the Federal Association of Energy and Water Management . V. (BDEW) to RWE . On the one hand, she took on the role of network director of the newly founded spin-off RWE International SE (renamed innogy SE in the meantime ). This completes the six-person executive team of the new RWE spin-off innogy SE. She was the first woman on the innogy Executive Board.
In an interview in February 2018, Müller emphasized that for the energy turnaround, sector coupling must be given much greater attention, that the energy system should be restructured from the bottom up, and that the consumer, as a "prosumer", will be both producer and consumer of energy. Electric mobility will prevail.
Müller repeatedly demanded that in addition to the expansion of the electricity highways, the distribution grids should be brought more into the focus of politics: "More than 95 percent of all RE systems are connected here, this is where e-mobility is being expanded, and where energy is being stored and sector coupling takes place instead of. Considerable efforts are therefore required to equip the distribution grids for the sharply increasing volatility in generation and consumption. ”This activity ended in mid-October 2019.
Worked at the VDA from February 2020
On November 29, 2019, Hildegard Müller was unanimously elected as the new president by the board of the VDA . She began her office there on February 1, 2020.
Other tasks
In addition to her work for Dresdner Bank, Hildegard Müller was a member of the supervisory board of NOVA Allgemeine Versicherung AG, Hamburg , and the advisory board of Barmenia Versicherungen , Wuppertal . She ended both activities when she joined the federal government in 2005. In 2010, WestLB's general meeting elected Müller to the supervisory board .
Other memberships, honors and awards
Hildegard Müller has been a member of the Central Committee of German Catholics since 2002 . There she is the spokesperson for the economic and social affairs department. Hildegard Müller is chairwoman of the foundation board of the donum vitae foundation . She was an honorary member of the advisory board of the American Jewish Committee e. V. in Berlin. She is also president of the "German-Israeli Business Association". Since April 2008 she has been a member of the board of UNICEF Germany. Müller is a board member of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and chairwoman of the jury for the Social Market Economy Prize . She was a member of the board of trustees of Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste (ARSP).
In November 2019 she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .
Family and private
In 2006 she became the mother of a daughter. She is with the lawyer Dr. Johannes Bickel, who lives in Heidelberg. Müller lives with her daughter in Berlin.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Plenary minutes 16/181 of the German Bundestag (PDF; 628 kB)
- ↑ Hildegard Müller's press release of September 24, 2006 ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 95 kB)
- ^ Der Spiegel, January 11, 2005: Political careers : Dresdner Bank promoted the rise of Hildegard Müller . Berliner Zeitung, January 11, 2005: Bank paid CDU staff and Dresdner Bank financed aid for CDU politician Müller . Frankfurter Rundschau January 12, 2005: About the person - Hildegard Müller
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung January 6, 2005: Bank pays Merkel's confidante salary. Financial institution: Hildegard Müller entrusted with "important special tasks" . Die Welt, January 7, 2005: Parliament's Special Economic Zone
- ↑ Press release of July 25, 2008
- ↑ "Merkel's girl" goes to RWE (Rheinische Post from January 12, 2016)
- ↑ "The taxes on electricity are too high" (Interview with Müller), in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung February 11, 2018, page 25
- ^ The European. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
- ↑ a b welt.de of November 27, 2019, Hildegard Müller becomes Germany's most powerful car lobbyist , accessed on December 27, 2019.
- ↑ VDA press release of November 29, 2019, VDA sets the course for the future: Hildegard Müller will be the new VDA President , accessed on December 27, 2019.
- ↑ Individual personalities in the ZdK. In: Homepage ZdK. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Homepage Donum Vitae. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 22, 2019 .
- ^ Homepage of the German-Israeli Business Association. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Homepage of UNICEF Germany. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
- ^ Board of Directors - Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung eV Accessed on January 24, 2020 .
- ^ Jury of the Social Market Economy Prize - Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung eV Accessed on January 24, 2020 .
- ↑ Award of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia, October 29, 2019, accessed on October 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Hildegard Müller: Die Karriere-Mutter , RP Online, January 11, 2016
- ↑ Biography - Origin and Family ( Memento from January 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Wirtschaftswoche, heads of the economy
Web links
- Biography at the German Bundestag
- CV at the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
Bruno Six (1947-1948) | Fred Sagner (1948–1949) | Josef Hermann Dufhues (1949–1950) | Ernst Majonica (1950–1955) | Gerhard Stoltenberg (1955–1961) | Bert Even (1961–1963) | Egon Klepsch (1963–1969) | Jürgen Echternach (1969–1973) | Matthias Wissmann (1973–1983) | Christoph Böhr (1983–1989) | Hermann Gröhe (1989–1994) | Klaus Escher (1994-1998) | Hildegard Müller (1998-2002) | Philipp Missfelder (2002–2014) | Paul Ziemiak (2014–2019) | Tilman Kuban (since 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Hildegard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag and lobbyist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rheine |