After high school, Murmann served as a
Bundeswehr soldier from 1983 to 1985. Afterwards, he studied Mechanical Engineering (
Maschinenbau) at the
Technical University of Munich. In 1994, he graduated in Business Administration, Innovation Management discipline, from
Kiel University. From 1994, Murmann worked for
ABB, in 1999 he left for an employment at TESSAG/
RWE. In 2001, he took over the family business Zöllner Holding GmbH in Kiel. Murmann was first elected to the German
Bundestag in the
2009 federal elections. In the negotiations to form a
Grand Coalition of
Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian
CSU) and the
Social Democrats following the
2013 federal elections, he was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on education and research policy, led by
Johanna Wanka and
Doris Ahnen. In July 2016, Murmann announced that he would not stand in the
2017 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term. ==Other activities==