Steven Muller

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Steven Muller (born November 22, 1927 as Stephan Müller in Hamburg ; † January 19, 2013 in Washington, DC ) was an American lawyer and political scientist , President of Johns Hopkins University (JHU; 1972–1990) and Fellow at Foreign Policy Institute and Distinguished Professorial Lecturer at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) - both part of JHU - in Washington, DC

Life

Muller's Jewish father, Werner Adolph Müller, ran a Hamburg law firm; Muller's mother was non-Jewish . After the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, his father was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . The mother was asked to have her two “half-Jewish” sons sterilized; then they could continue a “normal life” in Germany. Completely unexpectedly, Werner Adolph Müller was given the opportunity to leave the concentration camp and travel to Great Britain. Muller followed him with his mother and brother on August 12, 1939.

In April 1940 the Müller emigrated to the USA . Stephan Müller took on the name Steven Muller. He played in seven films in Hollywood, most recently as Hellwig Anders in “The Seventh Cross” , directed by Fred Zinnemann (1944). In 1949 he received US citizenship. He studied law and political science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) . From 1949 to 1951 he was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and from there visited his old hometown Hamburg in the winter of 1949/50. After military service with the telecommunications force in 1954/1955, he taught as an assistant professor of political science at Haverford College and then at Cornell University . In 1971 he became Chancellor of the JHU and in 1972 as successor to Milton S. Eisenhower its 10th President (until 1990).

Muller's areas of expertise were comparative government and international relations with a particular focus on developments in Europe. As a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies , he has been committed to German-American relations and transatlantic dialogue for many years. In 1975 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . On May 21, 1980 he was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit. On June 18, 1990, the main building of the "Space Telescope Science Institute" in Baltimore was named "Steven Muller Building" in honor of Muller.

Publications (selection)

  • From Occupation to Cooperation. The United States and United Germany in a Changing World Order (as ed., Together with Gebhard Schweigler). WW Norton & Company, New York / London 1992, ISBN 0-393-96254-7 .
  • Universities in the Twenty-First Century (as ed.). Berghahn Books, Providence / Oxford 1996. ISBN 1-57181-026-9 .
  • In Search of Germany (as editor, together with Michael Mertes and Heinrich August Winkler ). Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick / London 1996, ISBN 1-56000-880-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Günter Stiller: Who Liberated Werner Müller from the Concentration Camp? In: Hamburger Abendblatt from April 9, 2003.
  2. ↑ Emily Langer: Steven Muller, former president of Johns Hopkins University, dies at 85. The Washington Post , January 21, 2013, accessed January 22, 2013 .
  3. ↑ See German Personal Experiences: Stephen Muller (1927-) from 2004.
  4. ↑ For a short biography of Werner Adolph Müller see Heiko Morisse: Jüdische Rechtsanwälte in Hamburg. Exclusion and persecution in the Nazi state. Christians Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1418-0 , p. 148 f .; there also p. 55.
  5. ↑ 'Just something that happened'. Johns Hopkins president emeritus discusses Holocaust refugee experience. In: Washington Jewish Week of April 15, 2004.
  6. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  7. ↑ See STScI website and Heiko Morisse: Jüdische Rechtsanwälte in Hamburg. Exclusion and persecution in the Nazi state. Christians Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1418-0 , p. 96.
personal data
SURNAME Muller, Steven
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Stephan (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 2013
Place of death Washington, DC