Gottfried Müller (politician)

Gottfried Bertold Paul Adolf Müller (born 16 August 1934 in Schweina[1]) is a German theologian and former politician (Christian Democratic Union (East Germany); from 1990 Christian Democratic Union).

He was Minister for Media Policy of the GDR in the cabinet of Lothar de Maizière, and later President of the State Parliament of Thuringia.

In 1972 he joined the GDR CDU and became head of the Altenburg Bible Institute.

From 1981 to 1990 he was editor-in-chief of the Thuringian church newspaper Glaube und Heimat and from 1987 to April 1990 he was head of the Wartburg Verlag Jena.

Gottfried Müller was the initiator and main author of the so-called "letter from Weimar" (together with the three other signatories Christine Lieberknecht, Martin Kirchner and GDR lawyer Martina Huhn from Bad Lausick), who called for the democratic renewal of the GDR CDU and thus made the peaceful revolution in the GDR possible.