Wolfgang Müller (Ministerial Councilor)

Wolfgang Müller (born September 10, 1935 in Dresden ; † November 26, 2019 in Ilmenau ) was a German electrochemist and cultural politician . From 1991 to 1999 he was a ministerial councilor for culture at the Thuringian state representation in Bonn.

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Müller studied electrical engineering from 1953 to 1959, specializing in electrochemistry and electroplating, at the University of Electrical Engineering (HfE) Ilmenau and graduated with distinction. After working for two years in the automobile plant in Eisenach he went as permanent employees at the university back and received his doctorate in 1967 under Josef Hampel for Doktoringenieur . Subsequently, he became a senior assistant at the Institute for Electrochemistry and Electroplating Technology, which has meanwhile been elevated to the Technical University of Ilmenau.

In order to escape the pressing advertisements for the SED, Müller joined the GDR CDU in 1968.

It was only in 1956 that he began to play the cello. An emergency solution, because a finger joint in his right hand that was lost in an accident made it impossible for him to play the piano. In the summer of 1967 he founded an instrumental group of the TH Ilmenau, from which the chamber orchestra of the TH Ilmenau developed within a short time. Wolfgang Müller was director of this chamber orchestra from 1968 to 1990. His commitment and close cooperation with professional musicians from the Thuringian Philharmonic in Suhl brought the chamber orchestra exceptional national and international recognition. Under his direction, the orchestra received the Max Reger Prize in 1979 .

In 1976 Müller was appointed to the Central Working Group on Symphony / Chamber Music of the GDR by the Minister of Culture Hoffmann .

During the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a chance for Müller to have a stronger cultural and political impact. He resigned from university and in 1991, with the rank of ministerial councilor , went to the state representation of Thuringia in Bonn as commissioner for culture . In addition to his work on the board of the International Goethe Society, his commitment to the state of Thuringia is also linked to the founding of the State Music Council Thuringia (1990), the State Association of Thuringian Amateur Orchestra (1991), the Thuringian Art Association (1992), the Thuringian Heimatbund (1993). and the Association for the Preservation of Monuments in Thuringia (1995). A special feature is the founding of the Bonn local association of the Goethe Society, which he was instrumental in initiating in 1993, of which he remained chairman until 1999 as a non-Bonn citizen.

Müller was a member of the Ilmenau Goethe Society and was elected chairman in 2006, initially in Ilmenau. The association was merged into the Friends of the Goethemuseen and Goethe Society Ilmenau / Stützerbach eV, which Müller continued to chair.

In November 2011, Müller received the Order of Merit of the Free State of Thuringia for his achievements .

Müller lived in Oberpörlitz . He was married and had two daughters.

Works

• Wolfgang Müller: Contributions to the electrolytic deposition of cobalt with special consideration of the sulfamate electrolyte and the physical properties of the precipitates . Ed .: TH Ilmenau, Faculty for Heavy Current Technology. Ilmenau June 22, 1967, DNB  482242531 (135 p., Dissertation, defended on November 27, 1966).

Patent applications (selection)

• Process for the galvanic deposition of a magnetic storage layer with perpendicular anisotropy. Patent DD 3195758, co-inventor: Heinz Liebscher , Andreas Weinmeister
• Process for electrolytic metal deposition with forced convection , patent DD 3181631 from July 21, 1988, co-inventors: Heinz Liebscher, Andreas Weinmeister, Wolfgang Sülzner

literature

• Eberhart Köhler : PhD engineer, cellist, cultural politician - Dr. Wolfgang Müller goes from Ilmenau to Bonn . In: TU Ilmenau (Ed.): Ilmenauer Hochschulblatt . tape 37 , no. 10 , 1991, pp. 3 ( uni-jena.de [PDF]).
• Goethe Society (Ed.): Laudation for Mr. MinR a. D. Dr. Wolfgang Müller (Ilmenau) . tape 130 , 2013, p. 339 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Müller in the catalog of the German National Library