Education
After sitting the Abitur (German final exams) in 1974 at the Realgymnasium in Lebach, Müller studied jurisprudence and politics in the Bonn and Saarbrücken.
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After sitting the Abitur (German final exams) in 1974 at the Realgymnasium in Lebach, Müller studied jurisprudence and politics in the Bonn and Saarbrücken.
From 1999 to 2011, he has held the position of Premier (Ministerpräsident) of the state of Saarland, serving as President of the Upper House of Germany"s federal parliament, the Bundesrat from 1 November 2008 to 1 November 2009. In December 2011, Müller was elected as judge of German Bundesverfassungsgericht. Education and He sat for the two required State Examinations in Law, the first in 1983, and the second in 1986.
From then until 1994, he served as a judge at the district court of Saarbrücken, as well as a research fellow for Saarland University.
Since 1995, he has been the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union in Saarland. From 1994 through 1999, he was the Leader of the Christian Democratic Union in the Assembly, hence also serving as Leader of the Opposition.
With the Federal Election of 2005, he obtained a federal party ticket in Saarland. He was succeeded by Hermann Scharf.
After the Christian Democratic Union received 45.5% of the votes, a narrow majority government, he became Premier of Saarland.
On 3 September 2004 the Christian Democratic Union was able to expand upon its advantage in the parliament elections.
In 2009, he formed a so-called Jamaica coalition with the liberal Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party) and the Greens before leaving office in 2011, supposedly to accept an appointment to the Federal Constitutional Court.
Müller is a member of the Christian Democratic Union. He is also a part of the Christian Democratic Union"s informal internal party, the "Jungen Wilden" (Young Turks), as well as being a member of the "Andenpakt" (Andes Pact). On 17 August 2005 the then Chancellor-candidate Angela Merkel chose Müller to be a member of her shadow cabinet as a prospective minister of economics and trade. Since 1990, Müller has been a Member of the Legislative Assembly (Landtag) of Saarland.
However, on 26 November 2005 he decided not to take up his post as a Member of Parliament (Bundestag).