Gerhard Müller (politician)

Gerhard Müller
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 by	Alois Bräutigam
Succeeded by	Herbert Kroker
Second Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party in Bezirk Neubrandenburg
	In office; February 1974 – April 1980
First Secretary	Johannes Chemnitzer;
Preceded by	Gerhard Zettler
Succeeded by	Werner Breitsprecher
Preceded by
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer ; for Nordhausen, Sondershausen
	In office; 25 June 1981 – 16 November 1989
Preceded by	multi-member district
Succeeded by	Klaus Köhlitz
Personal details
Born	Gerhard Müller; 4 February 1928; Chemnitz, Free State of Saxony, Weimar Republic
Died	19 June 2020 (aged 92); Neubrandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Political party	Socialist Unity Party; (1946–1989)
Other political; affiliations	Social Democratic Party (1946)
Alma mater	Party Academy Karl Marx;
Occupation	Politician; Party Functionary; Teacher;
Awards	Patriotic Order of Merit, 1st class; Order of Karl Marx; Hero of Labour;
	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 ;

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

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.