Gerhard Müller (politician)

Gerhard Müller (4 February 1928 – 19 June 2020) was a German teacher, politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

Gerhard Müller
Müller (right) in 1989
First Secretary of the
Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Erfurt
In office
11 April 1980  11 November 1989
Second Secretary
  • Adolf Wicklein
  • Kurt Rundnagel
  • Wolfgang Pforte
Preceded byAlois Bräutigam
Succeeded byHerbert Kroker
Second Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Neubrandenburg
In office
February 1974  April 1980
First Secretary
Preceded byGerhard Zettler
Succeeded byWerner Breitsprecher
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer
for Nordhausen, Sondershausen
In office
25 June 1981  16 November 1989
Preceded bymulti-member district
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born
Gerhard Müller

(1928-02-04)4 February 1928
Chemnitz, Free State of Saxony, Weimar Republic
Died19 June 2020(2020-06-19) (aged 92)
Neubrandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Political partySocialist Unity Party
(1946–1989)
Other political
affiliations
Social Democratic Party (1946)
Alma mater
  • Party Academy Karl Marx
Occupation
  • Politician
  • Party Functionary
  • Teacher
Awards
Central institution membership
  • 1985–1989: Candidate member,
    Politburo of the Central Committee
  • 1981–1989: Full member,
    Central Committee

Other offices held
  • 1965–1974: First Secretary, Socialist Unity Party in Neubrandenburg-Land
  • 1955–1963: Secretary for Economics, Public Education, and Culture, Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Neubrandenburg

In the German Democratic Republic, he served as the longtime First Secretary of the SED in Bezirk Erfurt and was a candidate member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED.

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