Claudia Müller (born 10 August 1981) is a German politician of the

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who has been serving as a member of the

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from the state of

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since 2017. In addition to her parliamentary work, Müller served as

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in the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture in the

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from 2022 to 2025. In 2022, she was briefly the Coordinator for the Maritime Industry and Tourism at the

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Early life and education

Müller took her Abitur at the Gymnasium am Goetheplatz in Rostock in 2002. In 1998/99 she spent a year as an exchange student in the USA. From 2002 to 2012 she studied Management Studies at the University of Applied Sciences Stralsund.

Early career

Since 2000 Müller has been working as a freelance tour guide and since 2008 as a media educational project developer for Identity Films Medienwerkstatt.

Political career

Career in state politics

From February 2012 to May 2014, Müller chaired the Green Party’s parliamentary group in the Vorpommern-Rügen regional parliament.

Member of the German Parliament, 2017–present

Müller became a member of the Bundestag in the

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, representing the Vorpommern-Rügen – Vorpommern-Greifswald I district. In parliament, she initially was a member of the Committee on European Affairs and the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy. She also served as her parliamentary group’s representative for

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and spokesperson for maritime economy. In addition to her committee assignments, Müller co-chairs the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the

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and the Parliamentary Friendship Groups for Relations with the

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. In the negotiations to form a so-called

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of the

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(SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 federal elections, Müller was part of her party's delegation in the working group on economic affairs, co-chaired by Carsten Schneider,

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and Michael Theurer. In July 2022, Müller announced her intention to become her party's candidate to become mayor of

Rostock Rostock (; Polabian language, Polabian: ''Roztoc''), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (), is the largest city in the German States of Germany, state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the sta ...

; in the election, she only came in fourth with a total result of 8.6 percent of the votes. Since the

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, Müller has been serving as deputy chair of the Green Party's parliamentary group, under the leadership of co-chairs Katharina Dröge and

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.Jana Wolf (30 April 2025)
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Bundestag biography
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