Kurt Müller (politician, 1924)

Kurt Mueller (1969)

Kurt Müller (born December 7, 1924 in Schönheide ; † August 10, 2009 in Chemnitz ) was a German politician ( SED ). He was Lord Mayor of Karl-Marx-Stadt for over a quarter of a century .

Live and act

"Red Tower", City Hall and Interhotel (1974)

Müller attended elementary and commercial school. From 1939 to 1941 he worked as an administrative clerk in the municipality of Stützengrün in the Ore Mountains . In 1942 he was drafted into the Navy . At the end of the Second World War he was taken prisoner by the British in 1945 , which he spent in Wilhelmshaven .

In 1946 he returned to his homeland and became treasurer of the community of Unterstützengrün . In the same year Müller joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From 1946 to 1948 he was mayor of Stützengrün and took part in the construction of the Sosa Dam . From 1948 for two years as secretary of the Aue district , he became mayor of the mining town of Lößnitz in 1950. From 1952 to 1954, Müller was mayor of Aue and chairman of the Aue district council. Between 1955 and 1961 he completed a correspondence course in political science at the party college "Karl Marx" of the SED. From 1955 to 1959 he was first secretary of the SED district leadership in Aue, 1960/61 first secretary of the SED district leadership Freiberg . From September 1961 to December 1986 he was Lord Mayor of Karl-Marx-Stadt. He was a member of the Presidium of the German City and Municipal Association of the GDR. During his time as Lord Mayor, he also completed a special course from 1968 to 1970 at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam-Babelsberg .

During Müller's tenure as Lord Mayor of Karl-Marx-Stadt, the city center was rebuilt as a “ socialist city center ” (including the district council building with Karl Marx Monument , 1971; city hall and Interhotel Congress, 1974). There were also several large new development areas : the Flemming area (1963–1967), the Hans Beimler area (1967–1970), the Yorck area (1970–1974) and the Heckert area (from 1974).

Eight of the still intact international city partnerships of the city of Chemnitz came about through Müller's initiative: Tampere (1961), Ljubljana (1966), Arras (1967), Timbuktu (1968), Ústí nad Labem (1970), Łódź (1974), Mulhouse ( 1981) and Manchester (1983).

Honors

Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1968) and gold (1984)

literature

Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Müller, Kurt . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Addi Jacobi : Kurt Müller. 25 years mayor of Karl-Marx-Stadt on Stadtstreicher Stadtmagazin (June 1997).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Müller, Kurt . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
↑ Kurt Müller , In: Magazin Stadtstreicher (June 1997), accessed on February 12, 2015 ( Memento from February 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Neues Deutschland , October 4, 1968, p. 4.
↑ Neues Deutschland , October 5, 1984, p. 5.

personal data
SURNAME	Müller, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH	December 7, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schönheide
DATE OF DEATH	August 10, 2009
Place of death	Chemnitz

[werwer-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Müller, Kurt . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

[2] Kurt Müller , In: Magazin Stadtstreicher (June 1997), accessed on February 12, 2015 ( Memento from February 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

[3] Neues Deutschland , October 4, 1968, p. 4.

[4] Neues Deutschland , October 5, 1984, p. 5.