August Christian Winkler

August Christian Winkler (born January 9, 1900 in Cologne-Ehrenfeld ; † October 31, 1961 in Munich ) was a German politician ( center , later CSU ) and an activist Catholic. Winkler was best known as a member of the Reichstag from 1930 to 1933 and as the organizational leader of the Catholic Journeyman's Association in Cologne.

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Winkler began to get involved in the Catholic Church as a young man. As a politically active Catholic, he finally took over the post of organizational director of the Catholic Journeyman's Association in Cologne. In addition, Winkler joined the Center Party, from 1871 to 1933 the reservoir of political Catholicism in the German Reich. For the center he successfully ran for the Reichstag in September 1930 . After his mandate was confirmed in the Reichstag elections of July 1932, November 1932 and March 1933, he was a member of parliament until 1933. In the center, Winkler also held the post of chairman of the Reich Youth Committee of his party.

In March 1933, Winkler, together with the other members of his parliamentary group, voted for the so-called Enabling Act , which transferred the power of the legislature to the Reich government. H. Merged the legislative and executive branches - and together with the Reichstag Fire Ordinance of February 1933, formed the basis of the National Socialist dictatorship. On July 1, 1933, Winkler resigned from the center and from then on endeavored to obtain internship status in the NSDAP . After the Second World War, Winkler joined the CSU, for which he was a member of the Bavarian state parliament from 1954 until his death .

Web links

Literature by and about August Christian Winkler in the catalog of the German National Library
August Christian Winkler in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

↑ Reinhard Richter: National Thinking in Catholicism of the Weimar Republic (Theology; Vol. 29). Lit-Verlag, Münster 2000, p. 358, ISBN 3-8258-4991-0 (also dissertation, University of Bochum 2000).
↑ Thomas Schlemmer , Hans Woller (ed.): Bayern im Bund, Vol. 3: Politics and Culture in the Federal State, 1949 to 1973 (sources and representations on contemporary history; Vol. 54). Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2004, p. 99, ISBN 3-486-56596-6 .

personal data
SURNAME	Winkler, August Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (center, CSU), MdR, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	January 9, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne-Ehrenfeld
DATE OF DEATH	October 31, 1961
Place of death	Munich

[1] Reinhard Richter: National Thinking in Catholicism of the Weimar Republic (Theology; Vol. 29). Lit-Verlag, Münster 2000, p. 358, ISBN 3-8258-4991-0 (also dissertation, University of Bochum 2000).

[2] Thomas Schlemmer , Hans Woller (ed.): Bayern im Bund, Vol. 3: Politics and Culture in the Federal State, 1949 to 1973 (sources and representations on contemporary history; Vol. 54). Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2004, p. 99, ISBN 3-486-56596-6 .