Kerstin Müller

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Kerstin Müller in December 2008 at the state delegate conference of the Greens in Krefeld for the 2009 federal election

Kerstin Müller (born November 13, 1963 in Siegen ) is a German politician from Alliance 90 / The Greens .

From 2002 to 2005 she was Minister of State in the Foreign Office and from 1994 to 2002 chairwoman of the Bundestag parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen.

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Leverkusen in 1983, she began studying law in Cologne , which she completed in 1990 with the first state examination. In 1994 the second state examination followed .

Political activity

Kerstin Müller on the evening of the 2002 Bundestag election

Initially active for the Trotskyist group of International Marxists , she has been a member of the Green Party since 1986 . From 1990 to 1994 she was state chairwoman of the Greens in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Since 1994 she has been a member of the German Bundestag . Here she was spokeswoman from 1994 to 1998 and from 1998 to 2002 chairwoman of the Bundestag parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen. After the federal election in 2002 , Kerstin Müller was Minister of State in the Foreign Office in the federal government led by Gerhard Schröder until the early elections in 2005 . With the formation of the Grand Coalition , she left office on November 22, 2005. She was then the group's foreign policy spokesperson. Her particular focus was on Africa policy, the Middle East, Islam dialogue, fair globalization and international women's rights.

Kerstin Müller was elected to the German Bundestag via the North Rhine-Westphalia state list of the Greens. Your constituency was in the north of Cologne (districts Cologne-Ehrenfeld , Cologne-Nippes and Cologne-Chorweiler ).

For the 2013 federal election , Müller did not run again.

Other offices and memberships

Kerstin Müller is a member of the board of trustees of Aktion Deutschland Hilft , the alliance of aid organizations. She is also on the Board of Trustees of the Science and Politics Foundation and on the General Presidium of the German Society for Foreign Policy . She is an appointed member of the German Committee for UNICEF and thus a representative of the Bundestag for the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group.

Israel criticism

In her party, Kerstin Müller is an experienced foreign politician who has long dealt with German-Israeli relations and the peace process in the Middle East conflict .

Müller and Frithjof Schmidt proposed a resolution on the Ship-to-Gaza incident , which the Bundestag passed unanimously on July 1, 2010. A resolution of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (ZdJ), which accused the Bundestag of “unilateral partisanship against Israel”, rejected Müller against the ZdJ, whereupon the ZdJ accused her of “unbearable paternalistic tenor”.

On April 29, 2013, a group of MPs, including Müller, as well as the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, addressed a small question to the German government about a possible labeling of imported products from the West Bank. Representatives of the Berlin Jewish community, the Simon Wiesenthal Center , the Jerusalem NGO Monitor and the ZdJ accused Müller and the Greens of being instrumentalized by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign .

Müller has been the director of the Tel Aviv Israel office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation since the end of 2013 . Criticism of Müller was rejected by the chairman of the Heinrich Böll Foundation Ralf Fücks and the press spokesman for the parliamentary group Michael Schroeren.

Family and private

Kerstin Müller has been a single mother of one daughter since 2006.

Web links

Commons : Kerstin Müller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Kerstin Müller  - in the news

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Born: Kerstin Müller. In: Leverkusen, who's who. Retrieved May 14, 2018 .
  2. ^ Günter Bannas: Bundestag election 2013: And with us the time goes. In: faz.net . January 25, 2013, accessed May 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Benjamin Weinthal: The Nazi roots of the German Greens. In: Jerusalem Post . May 29, 2013. Retrieved May 14, 2018 .
  4. ^ Motion of the parliamentary groups CDU / CSU, SPD, FDP and BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN to clarify events around the Gaza flotilla - improve the situation of the people in Gaza - support the Middle East peace process. (PDF, 129 kB) German Bundestag, printed matter 17/2328, June 30, 2010, accessed on May 14, 2018 . Kerstin Müller: Lift the blockade in Gaza immediately! In: kerstin-mueller-mdb.de. July 2, 2010, archived from the original on August 14, 2013 ; accessed on May 14, 2018 .
  5. ^ Resolution of the Central Council of Jews on the Gaza Solidarity Fleet, the planned intergroup motions of the parliamentary groups and the current developments in the Middle East. Central Council of Jews in Germany, June 30, 2010, archived from the original on March 29, 2016 ; accessed on May 14, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Stephan Kramer : On Germany's Policy towards Israel: Paradigm Shift? Open letter. In: HaGalil . August 4, 2010, accessed May 14, 2018 . Benjamin Weinthal: The Nazi roots of the German Greens. In: Jerusalem Post . July 7, 2013, archived from the original on May 21, 2015 ; accessed on May 14, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Small question from MPs Kerstin Müller (Cologne) […] and the Alliance 90 / THE GREENS parliamentary group: Imports of products from Israeli settlements in the West Bank into the European Union and Germany. (PDF, 132 kB) German Bundestag, printed matter 17/13339, April 29, 2013, accessed on May 14, 2018 .
  8. ^ Kerstin Müller Has Been Appointed the Next Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation's Israel office. In: Heinrich Böll Foundation, Israel. April 15, 2013, accessed May 14, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Famous Mothers: Baby 40+. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 8, 2008, accessed March 21, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Kerstin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins