Klaus Müller

Klaus Müller (10 August 1944 – 3 March 2026) was a German Marxian economist and academic. His research and writings focused on Marxist money theory.

Life and career Klaus Müller was born on 10 August 1944 in Ursprung, which is nowadays a part of Lugau in Gau Saxony. After graduating from the Extended Secondary School in Stollberg in 1963, Müller studied financial and international economics at the Hochschule für Ökonomie Berlin. In 1973, he obtained a doctorate there on the economic evaluation of long-term development variants in the example of the energy sector. He habilitated on theories of income distribution at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in 1978.

Between 1972 and 1991 Müller taught in the economics department of Technische Hochschule Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz University of Technology), from 1984 on as a professor of political economy. Since 1991 he worked as a freelance lecturer for business studies and political economy, from 1997 to 2016 as an external lecturer for external and internal accounting at Chemnitz University of Technology.

Research and positions Müller criticized and rejected the Marx interpretation of Michael Heinrich and other proponents of Neue Marx-Lektüre as well as the neo-Ricardianism of Piero Sraffa. Müller considered the relevance of Marx's contributions to value theory and money theory comparable to the relevance of Newton's laws in physics or Mendeleev's periodic table in chemistry, writes Dogan Michael Ulusoy.