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Weilheim's mayor Markus Loth (r.) praised their recently deceased board member Peter Müller as the "driving force of the municipal utilities".
Here they are together in August 2021 at a construction festival on the site of the sewage treatment plant.
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Weilheim's city council remembered the late municipal utility boss Peter Müller at the most recent meeting.
Mayor Loth also talked about his private side.
Weilheim - Even if the news was already a month old at that moment: there was still noticeable consternation in Weilheim's city council when the death of municipal utilities boss Peter Müller was commemorated at the beginning of the most recent meeting.
Mayor Markus Loth began his speech with a quote from Müller himself. The term “municipal company”, he often said, comes from “undertake”, not from “not to do”.
This sentence sums up the work performance of the board member, who died at Christmas after a serious illness at the age of just 59, according to Loth: “Peter Müller took action, not omission.”
Peter Müller’s handwriting can be “recognized in many places in the city”
The business graduate, who had previously managed several municipal utilities in Oberstdorf, came to Weilheim's municipal utilities in 2013.
In 2014 he became a board member of the municipal company and also served as managing director of their Energie GmbH.
Under his leadership, “the municipal utility company has transformed itself into a broad-based company,” said Loth.
It's not just the new company headquarters that unmistakably bears Müller's signature, it can be seen "in many other places in the city" - from the expansion of the broadband network to the insect-friendly flowering meadows along the streets and the city bus with its electric vehicles to the "future-oriented local heating supply".
“He also knew how to enjoy”
The town hall boss admitted that Müller “didn’t always make friends” with his energy: “He was often criticized and sometimes attacked.
But his goal was always to advance the municipal utilities.
And he didn't let that deter him." Aside from his professional activities, Peter Müller - who also lived in the municipal utility building - was "a very private person," says Loth: "Walks with his dog Dana in and around Weilheim, good food and with a cold beer – he also knew how to enjoy it.
As a self-confessed 'sweetie', he baked fine cakes and cookies and conjured up artistic cakes, which he also enjoyed sharing with others.
And it wasn’t just in the summer that five scoops of ice cream weren’t a problem for him.”
In mid-November 2023, Müller received the “Location Oskar Weilheim”.
Looking back, this is a “very deserved award for his life’s work,” said Loth in the city council.
With Müller's death we have lost "a unique person" who "managed the fortunes of our municipal utilities with a lot of courage and prudence and led them into the future".
Peter Müller has “made a very special contribution to the well-being of the general public, the city of Weilheim and its citizens”.
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