Alfred Winkler (General)

Alfred Winkler (born October 26, 1926 ) is a former German police officer. He was lieutenant general and long-time commander of the officers' college of the Ministry of the Interior - readiness in Dresden .

Life

Winkler joined the SED and became a member of the German People's Police (VP) and studied at the Friedrich Engels Military Academy . From 1961 to 1968 he was head of the administration training of the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR (successor to Karl Mellmann ). In 1968, as Colonel of the VP, he became the commander of the Technical College of the MdI - Readiness in Dresden, which on May 10, 1971 , was granted the status of an officers college of the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR and the German People's Police, Friedrich Dickel The honorary name "Artur Becker" was awarded. Winkler remained in office until his dismissal in 1990. On June 26, 1975 he was appointed major general by the chairman of the National Defense Council of the GDR , Erich Honecker , and was promoted to lieutenant general on June 27, 1988.

Winkler is a member of the Initiative Group for the Protection of Social Rights (ISOR) and lives in Dresden.

Awards

1971 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze, 1979 in silver and 1986 in gold
1983 Order Banner of Labor Level I
1986 Award of an honorary doctorate (Dr. paed. Hc) by the Scientific Council of the University of Education "Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander" Dresden .

literature

Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 1: Lexicon of organizations and institutions, departmental union management , League for Friendship between Nations (= rororo-Handbuch. Vol. 6348). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16348-9 , p. 223.

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfgang Demmer, Eberhard Haueis: Military Academy "Friedrich Engels" 1959 to 1990. A documentation. Dresden 2008, p. 141.
^ "Artur Becker" officers' college of the People's Police . In: Neues Deutschland , May 11, 1971, p. 2.
↑ Congratulations on your 80th birthday in ISOR-aktuell No. 10 - October 2006 .
^ TU Dresden: inventory ( memento from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), page 101

personal data
SURNAME	Winkler, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German police officer, lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH	October 26, 1926

[1] Wolfgang Demmer, Eberhard Haueis: Military Academy "Friedrich Engels" 1959 to 1990. A documentation. Dresden 2008, p. 141.

[2] "Artur Becker" officers' college of the People's Police . In: Neues Deutschland , May 11, 1971, p. 2.

[3] Congratulations on your 80th birthday in ISOR-aktuell No. 10 - October 2006 .

[4] TU Dresden: inventory ( memento from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), page 101