Peter-Heinz Müller-Link

Peter-Heinz Müller-Link in 2000

Peter-Heinz Müller-Link (born January 2, 1921 in Hamburg ; † October 10, 2009 there ) was a German politician of the FDP .

Life and work

Müller-Link was called up for military service in 1939 after graduating from high school at the "Oberrealschule des Johanneum". There he obtained the rank of captain. He suffered the “collective fate” (own statement) of a war injury (lower leg amputation). After 1945 he began studying law . Since passing the second state examination, he had worked as a lawyer - only interrupted by his work as a senator. He married Gabriele Kerner in 1949, who died in 1975. The children Ulrike (* 1950) and Dietrich (* 1952) came from this marriage. He was married to Gudrun Müller-Link, née Hilbert, for the second time. In 1991 the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg awarded him the Mayor Stolten Medal for his services . He was a member of the Hamburg Freemason Lodge Die Brückenbauer . On October 10th, 2009 he died after a long and serious illness.

Political party

Müller-Link joined the FDP on September 1, 1946, and was Hamburg's state chairman of the Young Democrats in the 1950s . From 1951 until 1974 he was a member of the state board of the Hamburg FDP almost without interruption , and from 1954 to 1966 as deputy state chairman. He then temporarily withdrew from state politics because he did not want to support the left-wing course of the state association under Helga Schuchardt and Dieter Biallas . From 1975 to 1980, however, he led the Hamburg-Wandsbek district association of the Liberals and was thus able to continue to exert influence.

At the beginning of 1983, Müller-Link was elected regional chairman of the FDP after many previous leadership members left the party or stopped active after the fall in Bonn in September / October 1982 and the subsequent severe defeat of the FDP in the mayor election in December of the same year had. He succeeded in rebuilding the party and setting it up in such a way that he was able to hand over a campaign-capable regional association to his successor Ingo von Münch in 1985, which in 1987 managed to return to the citizenship. However, he himself had spoken out in favor of Wilhelm Rahlfs as his successor, but was unable to assert himself with this proposal at the state party conference. From 1983 to 1985, Müller-Link was a member of the FDP federal executive committee . On August 28, 1986 he was elected honorary chairman of the Hamburg FDP by the state party conference.

MP

Müller-Link was a member of the Hamburg Parliament from 1953 to 1974. From 1957 to 1961 and from 1966 to 1974 he was chairman of the FDP parliamentary group .

Public offices

From 1961 to 1966, Müller-Link was a member of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. He was sent to the building authorities as a senator and was a member of the judiciary commission (there was no judicial senator yet).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice of the FDP and the family, Hamburger Abendblatt 17./18. October 2009, p. 28.
2. ↑ According to Ulrike Müller-Link.