Peter Müller (Prime Minister)

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Peter Müller on a poster for the state elections in Saarland in 2009

Peter Aloysius Müller (born September 25, 1955 in Illingen ) is a former German politician ( CDU ). From 1999 to 2011 he was Prime Minister and from 2009 to 2011 also Minister of Justice of the Saarland . He has been a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court since December 2011 .

Life

education and profession

Müller grew up in the Eppelborn part of the municipality Bubach-Calmesweiler. In 1974 he graduated from high school in Lebach . From 1975 to 1983 he studied law and political science at Saarland University and Bonn University . He completed his law studies in 1983 with the first state examination and the grade "very good"; He finished his political science studies without a degree. The legal traineeship followed from 1983 to 1986 . At the same time, he worked as a research assistant at the Chair for Constitutional and Administrative Law II at the University of Saarland. A doctoral thesis started at this time remained unfinished. After his second state exam with a grade of "good" he was from April 1986 Richter worked first at the District Court Ottweiler , later in the Regional Court in Saarbruecken . Müller has been on leave since 1990. He was also a lecturer at Saarland University.

Political career

Political party

In the early years of his political activity, he initially worked in the Junge Union . He joined her in 1971. He quickly rose to the federal and state executive board. From 1983 to 1987 he was state chairman of the JU Saar. From 1990 Müller was a member of the CDU parliamentary group. During that legislative period, he held the office of Parliamentary Executive Director throughout. On April 12, 1994 he was elected leader of the CDU parliamentary group.

At the beginning he was a member of the state board as a policy officer. In November 1995, Müller was elected regional chairman of the Saar CDU . In 1997 he was confirmed in this office with 97% of the votes. After almost 16 years in office, Müller resigned from this position in May 2011. His preferred candidate Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer was chosen as his successor .

From 1998 to 2011 Müller was a member of the presidium of the CDU in Germany . He is close to the informal internal party group of the " young and wild " and he is included in the Andean Pact . On August 17, 2005, the then CDU candidate for Chancellor Angela Merkel Müller appointed her competence team for the economic department . Since the Union assigned the economic department to Michael Glos (CSU), Müller remained Prime Minister despite the Bundestag mandate obtained via the state list . As a result, he left the Bundestag on November 28, 2005. Hermann-Josef Scharf moved up for him .

Prime Minister

Müller ruled in Saarland from September 1999 to August 2009 with an absolute majority. After the CDU had achieved a narrow absolute majority of the mandates in the state elections in 1999 with 45.5% of the votes, he was elected Prime Minister on September 29, 1999 . On September 5, 2004, the CDU achieved a 47.5% share of the vote in the Saarland state elections in 2004 and was thus able to expand its lead over the SPD, which had ruled until 1999 .

From July 4, 2007, he was a member of the ZDF administrative board as representative of the federal states . On October 10, 2008, Müller was elected President of the Federal Council according to the schedule . He held office from November 1, 2008 to October 31, 2009 and then handed over the office to the President of the Senate and Mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Jens Böhrnsen . Until October 31, 2010, Müller remained a member of the Presidium of the Federal Council as First Vice-President .

For the state elections in Saarland in 2009 , Müller was again nominated as the top candidate of the CDU. In the election, the CDU slumped to 34.5 percent of the vote and lost an absolute majority. In exploratory talks with the FDP and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, Peter Müller forged the first Jamaica coalition in a German state parliament. On November 10th, 2009 he was re-elected as Prime Minister with 27 of 50 votes and thus got all votes from the black-yellow-green coalition. In his third cabinet , Müller also took over the management of the Ministry of Justice. He was a member of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union.

The Constitutional Court of Saarland (judgment of July 1, 2010 - Lv 4/09) ruled that the Müller government had improperly advertised by attaching brochures about the work of the state government to the pay slips of civil servants.

On August 9, 2011, Müller - as he had already announced in January 2011 - resigned from the office of Prime Minister. The later change of the politician as judge at the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe was considered the background. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected as his successor on August 10th .

Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court

In December 2010 it was announced that Müller would move to the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe as the successor to Udo Di Fabio in autumn 2011 . Müller did not deny the report and had it announced that "at the moment" no decision was pending, there was "no reason" for a statement. At the end of January 2011, the question arose as to what legal qualifications Müller had for the office of judge at the Federal Constitutional Court. On November 25, 2011, he was finally elected unanimously by the Federal Council as a judge in the Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court. After Gebhard Müller , he is the second Prime Minister to become a constitutional judge.

On the judgment of the court of February 26, 2014, which declared the three percent threshold clause in the European Election Act to be unconstitutional, Müller gave a separate vote .

In July 2014, Müller was unanimously elected by his fellow judges as rapporteur for the “Elections and Party Law” department. He thus succeeded the Federal Constitutional Court judge Michael Gerhardt , who had applied for early retirement for personal reasons.

family

Peter Müller is married. He has three children with his wife Astrid.

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New constitutional judges ( Memento of November 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) of December 20, 2011
  2. ↑ a b Hartmut Kistenfeger, Frank Thewes, T. Zorn: A crocodile for Karlsruhe . On November 3, 2011 at focus.de, accessed on October 16, 2018
  3. ↑ List of the members of the German delegation in the Committee of the Regions, February 10, 2010 ( Memento of July 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Peter Müller leaves the political stage , sr-online.de
  5. ↑ Müller announces resignation , sueddeutsche.de of January 22, 2011
  6. ↑ From the executive to the judiciary: Peter Müller is to become a constitutional judge ( Memento from December 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). In: Financial Times Germany . December 17, 2010
  7. ↑ Volker Hildisch: Future constitutional judge: Peter Müller is head of government on call . In: Der Tagesspiegel . December 18, 2010
  8. ^ Frank Drieschner: Saarland Prime Minister Müller: Suddenly judge . In: The time . January 27, 2011
  9. ↑ Benno Stieber: Constitutional Court Judge: The Metamorphosis of Peter Müller ( Memento from November 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: Cicero . September 8, 2012
  10. ↑ Resolution of the Federal Council of November 25, 2011, printed matter 736/11 ( Memento of November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 14 kB)
  11. ↑ Election in the Federal Council: Ex-Prime Minister Müller becomes constitutional judge . In: The world . November 25, 2011
  12. ^ Heribert Prantl , Marc Widmann: From Saarbrücken to Karlsruhe - Müller becomes a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . December 17, 2010
  13. ↑ Judgment of February 26, 2014 - 2 BvE 2/13 . From bundesverfassungsgericht.de, accessed on October 16, 2018
  14. ↑ Stefan Geiger: Change in Karlsruhe: A constitutional judge wants to go. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . May 5, 2014, accessed May 18, 2020 .
  15. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.6 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Peter Aloysius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Illingen