Werner Müller (politician, 1946)

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Werner Müller (2002)

Wilhelm Werner Müller (born June 1, 1946 in Essen ; † July 15, 2019 there ) was a German manager , university lecturer and non-party politician . With several subjects, including economics, and a doctorate in linguistics, he initially taught as a lecturer and then worked for RWE and VEBA from 1973 to 1997 , where he later became a general representative and board member.

In the following years, Müller became known nationwide when he was Federal Minister of Economics and Technology (1998–2002), Chairman of the Executive Board of Ruhrkohle AG and Evonik Industries, which was spun off from it (2003–2008), Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn AG (2005–2010) and CEO of the RAG Foundation, which he co-founded during his time at Ruhrkohle (2012–2018). In 2018 he was elected honorary chairman of the RAG-Stiftung.

Life

Müller lived in Weil am Rhein until he was 13 , because his father, who came from Dresden, worked as a physicist at the German-French research institute Saint-Louis . After graduating from the Windthorst-Gymnasium Meppen in 1965, Müller studied piano at the Mannheim University of Music and economics at the University of Mannheim as well as philosophy and linguistics at the Universities of Duisburg and Bremen . In 1978 Müller received his doctorate in linguistics at the University of Bremen . From 1970 to 1972 Müller worked as a lecturer in business mathematics and statistics at the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences and had lectureships at the Universities of Mannheim and Regensburg . Werner Müller has been a member of the KDSt.V. since his studies in Mannheim with a break of several years. Churpfalz Mannheim in the CV .

From 1973 to 1980 he was at RWE AG , most recently as Head of Market Research. In 1980 he moved to VEBA AG (Head of Energy Staff) and later also became a general representative there. In 1992 he moved to the VEBA subsidiary Veba Kraftwerke Ruhr AG and was responsible for energy purchasing, energy sales, district heating and waste management / waste incineration. In 1997 he resigned from this office and became an independent industrial consultant.

From 1998 to 2002, Müller was Federal Minister for Economics and Technology . After the designated Minister of Economic Affairs, Jost Stollmann, unexpectedly refused to accept the office because of curtailment of the ministry's competencies after the SPD's victory in the Bundestag election in 1998 , Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder named Werner Müller, who was well known to him from Lower Saxony . In 1999, after Oskar Lafontaine's resignation, Müller also acted temporarily as Federal Minister of Finance .

For the red-green federal government, Müller negotiated the nuclear energy compromise ( nuclear phase-out ) with industry . Müller hit the headlines when he refused to accept the Federal Cartel Office's prohibition on the takeover of Ruhrgas by the successor company of his former employer VEBA, E.ON AG , for reasons of the overriding public interest and therefore instructed his State Secretary Alfred Tacke to do so To enable merger by issuing a ministerial permit in accordance with Section 42 of the Act against Restraints of Competition .

After the federal elections in 2002 , the re-elected Chancellor Gerhard Schröder did not appoint Müller to his second cabinet . The Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology was merged with the Ministry of Labor to form a super ministry ( Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor ); its minister was Wolfgang Clement .

In 2003, Müller succeeded Karl Starzacher as CEO of Ruhrkohle AG (RAG). Despite massive public criticism from various sides and a small request from the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag, the federal government had no concerns about the change of the former minister to the RAG. Müller quickly restructured the group and concentrated the company, which had around 100,000 employees at the time, on four core business areas. Parts of RAG (chemicals, energy and real estate) were spun off in September 2006 to RAG Beteiligungs AG (from 2007 Evonik Industries AG ). On December 31, 2008, Werner Müller resigned from the Evonik Executive Board.

On July 5, 2005, Werner Müller was elected Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) . At the beginning of 2010 - in the meantime the Merkel II cabinet ruled  - his contract expired and was not extended. Müller was also chairman of the supervisory board of BwConsulting GmbH , a wholly owned subsidiary of the Federal Ministry of Defense .

Since 2006 he has been a member of Borussia Dortmund's advisory board . From December 1, 2012 to May 24, 2018, he was Chairman of the Management Board of the RAG-Stiftung and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Evonik Industries AG, RAG Aktiengesellschaft and DSK AG. According to his announcement in February 2018, he resigned these offices for health reasons.

Because of his services to founding the RAG-Stiftung, he was elected honorary chairman of the board by the foundation's board of trustees in May 2018 .

Müller has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Kulturstiftung der Länder since 2005 and its deputy chairman since 2014.

On July 15, 2019, Werner Müller succumbed to the consequences of cancer at the age of 73.

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Müller was married and had two children.

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literature

  • Barbara Nolte, Jan Heidtmann: The one up there. Interior views from German executive floors. , Suhrkamp-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-12599-1 , p. 121 ff.

Web links

Commons : Werner Müller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulf Meinke: Werner Müller is dead - that's how he shaped the Ruhr area. In: waz.de. July 16, 2019, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  2. ^ Mourning for ex-Minister Werner Müller. In: prosieben.de. July 16, 2019, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  3. ^ Deceased ex-minister with hamlet roots
  4. ↑ dab / dpa / AFP / Reuters: Werner Müller: Companions worthy of ex-economics minister. In: Spiegel Online . July 16, 2019, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Klaus J. Schwehn: Jost Stollmann throws in the towel . tagesspiegel.de , October 19, 1998
  6. ↑ decision 109/01. (PDF) Bundeskartellamt, accessed on July 11, 2018 .
  7. ↑ so the wording in § 42 of the law against restraints of competition
  8. ↑ Takeover of the chairmanship of the Ruhrkohle board by Werner Müller in sight: Small request from the FDP parliamentary group. (PDF) Bundestag printed matter 15/1193. German Bundestag, June 4, 2003, accessed on November 3, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Industry boss: Evonik boss Müller resigns . Spiegel Online , August 20, 2008; accessed on November 6, 2018
  10. ↑ Article. Zeit Online , February 2010
  11. ↑ Dr. Werner Müller. RAG-Stiftung, archived from the original on May 29, 2013 ; accessed on October 30, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Supervisory Board. Evonik Industries, archived from the original on May 30, 2015 ; accessed on November 9, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Dr. Werner Müller resigns from office for health reasons . RAG-Stiftung press release, February 28, 2018; accessed on March 24, 2018.
  14. ↑ Bernd Tönjes appointed as the new chairman of the RAG-Stiftung. RAG-Stiftung, May 9, 2018, accessed on September 21, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Homepage Kulturstiftung der Länder from July 21, 2019: The Kulturstiftung der Länder mourns Werner Müller , accessed on July 23, 2019
  16. ↑ a b Werner Müller died at the age of 73. Deutschlandfunk, July 16, 2019, accessed on July 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Wilhelm Werner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH 15th July 2019
Place of death eat