George Muller was born on September 27, 1805, in Kroppenstedt in the Kingdom of Prussia. His family moved to neighboring Heimersleben. He had an older brother, Friedrich Johann Wilhelm born in 1803 and died on 7 October 1838. His early life was not noticeable by Christian morality- on the contrary; George Muller was a liar, a thief, and a gambler. When he was 14 years of age, he was playing cards with his friends and drinking while his mother was dying. Later, George was imprisoned for fraud. His father remarried after his mother’s death.