Michael Müller (politician, born 1964)

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Michael Müller
MdB
File:2017-11-16 Michael Müller (Wiki Loves Parliaments 2017 in Berlin) by Sandro Halank.jpg
Müller in 2017
Governing Mayor of Berlin
In office
11 December 2014 – 21 December 2021
Deputy Frank Henkel
Dilek Kalayci
Ramona Pop
Klaus Lederer
Preceded by Klaus Wowereit
Succeeded by Franziska Giffey
President of the German Bundesrat
In office
1 November 2017 – 31 October 2018
First Vice President Malu Dreyer
Preceded by Malu Dreyer
Succeeded by Daniel Günther
Berlin state politics
(2001 – 2020)
Leader of the Social Democratic Party in Berlin
In office
30 April 2016 – 28 November 2020
Preceded by Jan Stöß
Succeeded by Franziska Giffey
Raed Saleh
In office
7 April 2004 – 9 June 2012
Preceded by Peter Strieder
Succeeded by Jan Stöß
Deputy Governing Mayor of Berlin
In office
11 December 2011 – 14 December 2014
Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit
Preceded by Ingeborg Junge-Reyer
Succeeded by Dilek Kalayci
Senator for Urban Development and Environment of Berlin
In office
11 December 2011 – 14 December 2014
Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit
Preceded by Ingeborg Junge-Reyer
Succeeded by Andreas Geisel
Leader of the Social Democratic Party in the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin
In office
16 June 2001 – 1 December 2011
Preceded by Klaus Wowereit
Succeeded by Raed Saleh
Parliamentary constituencies
Member of the Bundestag
for Berlin Charlottenburg – Wilmersdorf
Assumed office
26 October 2021
Preceded by Klaus-Dieter Gröhler
Member of the Bundesrat
for Berlin
In office
16 December 2014 – 26 October 2021
Preceded by Klaus Wowereit
Succeeded by vacant
Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin
In office
29 November 2001 – 4 November 2021
Preceded by Peter Rzepka
Succeeded by Aferdita Suka
Constituency Tempelhof-Schöneberg 4
In office
2 February 1996 – 29 November 2001
Preceded by Lore Maria Peschel-Gutzeit
Succeeded by multi-member district
Constituency Social Democratic List
Personal details
Born Rainer Michael Müller
(1964-12-09) 9 December 1964 (age 59)
West Berlin, West Germany (now Germany)
Political party Social Democratic Party (1981–)
Spouse(s) Claudia Müller (m. 1993; div. 2019)
Children 2
Residence Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Berlin
Occupation
  • Politician
  • Printer
Signature Michael Müller (politician, born 1964)'s signature

Rainer Michael Müller (born 9 December 1964) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as Governing Mayor of Berlin from 2014 to 2021 as a member of the German Bundestag since the 2021 elections, representing the Berlin Charlottenburg – Wilmersdorf district.

He was also President of the Bundesrat from November 2017 until October 2018, which made him deputy to the President of Germany.[1]

Political career

State politics

Müller was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1996 and has been a member ever since. On 16 June 2001, he took over leadership of the SPD Group in the House of Representatives from Klaus Wowereit who had been elected Governing Mayor of Berlin. After the resignation of Peter Strieder in April 2004, Müller ran for the Berlin SPD State Party Leadership and won, remaining the Leader of Berlin SPD until he lost his re-election bid against Jan Stöß in June 2012.[2]

Following the 2011 state elections in Berlin, Müller was senator for urban development and the environment from 1 December 2011 to 11 December 2014. One of his most extensive projects, which planned to build business space and apartments on the former Tempelhof Airport, was rejected in 2014 by a clear majority of Berlin citizens in a referendum.[3]

Mayor of Berlin, 2014–present

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Müller at the 2017 March for Science in Berlin

In December 2014, Müller took over in midterm from the incumbent Klaus Wowereit, Berlin's longest-serving mayor since reunification in 1990,[4] who presided over the city's emergence as a popular tourist destination and center for high-tech start-ups but stepped down after his popularity suffered from the debacle around the Berlin Brandenburg Airport.[5]

Müller had previously made a surprise entry into the race to succeed Wowereit and defeated two candidates initially seen as the most likely successors.[4] Shortly before the election, Müller ran for the Leadership of the Social Democratic Party in Berlin a second time, and won. In the 2016 Berlin Election, he led the party to victory, albeit not without some losses. After the election, Müller ended the grand coalition with the Christian Democratic Union and formed a new government with the Green Party and the left-wing Die Linke.

Role in national politics

As one of the state's representatives at the Bundesrat, Müller has been on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on European Affairs and the Committee on Cultural Affairs since 2014.

Müller was an SPD delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2004, 2009 and 2012. In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, he was part of the working group on urban development, led by Bernd Althusmann, Kurt Gribl and Natascha Kohnen.

In August 2020, Müller announced his intention to leave state politics and instead run as a candidate in the 2021 national elections.[6] In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD, the Green Party and the Free Democrats (FDP) on the national level following the elections, he was part of his party's delegation in the working group on innovation and research, co-chaired by Thomas Losse-Müller, Katharina Fegebank and Lydia Hüskens.[7]

In parliament, Müller has been serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs since 2021.[8]

Other activities

Corporate boards

Non-profit organizations

References

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  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Patrick Donahue, "Berlin Mayor Mueller Sworn In, Ending Wowereit's 13-Year Run", Bloomberg Business, 11 December 2014. (subscription required)
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  6. ↑ Stephan-Andreas Casdorff, Sabine Beikler and Julius Betschka, "Die ungewisse Zukunft des Regierenden: Michael Müller bewirbt sich offiziell um Bundestags-Kandidatur", Der Tagesspiegel, 10 August 2020. Script error: No such module "In lang".
  7. ↑ Britt-Marie Lakämper (October 21, 2021), SPD, Grüne, FDP: Diese Politiker verhandeln die Ampel-Koalition Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
  8. ↑ Julius Betschka (14 December 2021), Doch keine „Berliner Themen" im Parlament? Michael Müller wird im Bundestag plötzlich zum Außenpolitiker Der Tagesspiegel.
  9. ↑ Ulrich Zawatka-Gerlach, "Kuratorium vorgestellt: Prominente unterstützen Synagogenbau am Kreuzberger Fraenkelufer", Der Tagesspiegel, 30 May 2018 Script error: No such module "In lang".
  10. ↑ "Bernd Westphal wird neuer Beirats-Vorsitzender beim Wirtschaftsforum der SPD" Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, press release, 7 June 2018 Script error: No such module "In lang".
  11. ↑ "Board of Trustees", Ernst Reuter Foundation for Advanced Study.
  12. ↑ "Board of Trustees", Free University of Berlin.
  13. ↑ "Board of Trustees", Natural History Museum, Berlin.
  14. ↑ 2018-2019 "Board of Trustees", Technical University of Berlin. Script error: No such module "In lang".

External links

Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons


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