Edward Ryszard Müller is a Polish politician, a trade union activist; he was an oppositionist in the PRL and from 1989 to 1993 a deputy of the Contract Sejm and the First Term Sejm.
Biography
In 1977 he graduated from Basic Vocational School of Ship Industry. In 1980 he joined NSZZ "Solidarity". Before he moved to Słupsk in September 1980, he had been living in Gdańsk. After introducing Martial law in Poland he organised underground structures of Solidarity' within Słupsk Voivodeship. He was also a member of Regional Resistance Committee in Słupsk as well as of secret enterprise resistance committee in confectionery industry plants ZPC Pomorzanka, both in Słupsk. In January 1982 he was dismissed for disciplinary reasons and in autumn he was interned in military camp in Chełmno, where he was sentenced to one year and eight months of detention. In February 1985 he was rearrested, imprisoned in penitentiary at Rakowiecka street in Warsaw, sentenced to one year and two months of detention and released in November 1985. Subsequently, he began to cooperate with The Liberal Democratic Party ‘Independency’. With his jump from the first stock, he avoided another arrest in spring 1986. A wanted notice was issued for him, however in autumn 1986 he decided to use general amnesty. In 1987, in Poland he established the cooperation with Helsinki Committee. Simultaneously, he led the Koszalin-Słupsk Inter-Regional Middle-Pomerania Coordination Committee. Between 1986 and 1989 he was chairman of the Słupsk Inter-Enterprise Coordination Committee. In late 1980s he was publishing Pobudka and OKO. Additionally, he was editing magazines Ucho and Rewers as well as he was organizing summer camps for children of victimized underground activists. As one of the authorised, he reregistered NSZZ Solidarity on 17 April 1989. He was chairman of the Temporary Boar in Słupsk Region, afterward, until 1990, he was a member of the Executive National Committee and he led the Board in Słupsk Region until 1994. At the same time, he was a member of National Committee. In May 1989 he discovered a transmitter in the Citizens’ Committee tapped by SB. He was a deputy of the Contract Sejm from Citizens’ Committee and of the First Term Sejm from the Solidarity list of Słupsk Region. In 1996 and 1997 he led the Movement for the Reconstruction of Poland on regional level
