Christine Wieynk

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Christine Wieynk (born July 24, 1942 in Aue ) is a former German politician of the GDR CDU . She was a member of the People's Chamber from 1963 to 1990 and was part of the Central Council of the FDJ . On November 13, 1989, she applied unsuccessfully as a candidate for the new election as President of the People's Chamber.

Life

Christine Wieynk was born on July 24, 1942 in Aue as the daughter of a businessman. She passed her Abitur at the Dresden Kreuzschule , where she joined the FDJ in 1956 and worked as an FDJ functionary from 1957 to 1961. After graduating from school, she was employed by the editorial staff of the CDU newspaper “ Die Union ” in Dresden , for which she also took part in an editorial course from 1961 to 1965 by the Association of Journalists . She joined the CDU with her work. At the age of 24 she was the youngest member of the Dresden District Assembly, at that time still under the name Christine Wedegärtner . Wieynk continued to work for the FDJ and became a member of the FDJ district management in Dresden in 1963. She was set up in 1967 as a candidate of the FDJ for the Volkskammer election in the Dresden district. She was one of the very few MPs who, as a member of a faction of a mass organization, was a member of a block party . Ralf Wieynk, an engineer in the “Carl von Ossietzki” controller and device factory in Teltow , her later husband, was a member of the FDJ's Central Council during this time . In the People's Chamber, Christine Wieynk initially sat on the committee for citizens' submissions . Following her editorial course, Wieynk completed a distance learning course from 1965 to 1970 at Berlin's Humboldt University , which she completed as a graduate philosopher. Until 1974 she remained a member of the FDJ district leadership in Dresden, until 1975 editor of the newspaper Die Union . In 1975 Wieynk moved to East Berlin and from 1975 to 1979 she was an employee and member of the editorial board of the CDU central organ Neue Zeit under editor-in-chief Johannes Zillig . In 1974 she had already moved from the district to the GDR level in the FDJ as a member of the office of the Central Council of the FDJ, which she remained as CDU representative until 1981. In June 1976 Christine Wieynk, at that time Wedegärtner, was elected to the highest governing body of the youth association, the Central Council of the FDJ.

In 1976 Wieynk ran for the first time after three electoral terms as a member of the CDU for the People's Chamber. In 1979 Wieynk ended her work as an editor and worked as a secretary and member of the Presidium of the GDR Peace Council until she moved to the main board of the CDU in 1982, after which (1987) she was only secretary of the GDR Peace Council. Until 1976 she worked as a member of the People's Chamber in the Committee for Citizens' Submissions, which was headed by the member of the People's Chamber and CDU presidium member Hermann Kalb . Wieynk was a member of the Youth Committee from 1976 to 1986 and then a member of the Constitutional and Legal Committee.

In the course of the turnaround and peaceful revolution , Wieynk was nominated by her party as a candidate for the election of a new president of the People's Chamber. However, she was eliminated after the first ballot with 62 votes. She remained a member until the first free parliamentary elections on March 18, 1990, but did not run again.

Honors

  • 1973 Artur Becker Gold Medal
  • 1979 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
  • 1984 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
  • .... Medal of Merit of the GDR
  • .... Medal for excellent performance
  • .... Otto Nuschke decorations in silver and bronze
  • .... Silver badge of honor of the National Front
  • .... German Peace Medal

literature

  • Andreas Herbst , Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 1: Encyclopedia of organizations and institutions A - L . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994
  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-8012-0081-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , June 6, 1967, p. 3
  2. ↑ Neue Zeit , June 10, 1967, p. 12
  3. ↑ Günther Jahn , then First Secretary of the Central Council of the FDJ , in Neue Zeit , September 22, 1968, p. 3
  4. ^ Neue Zeit , March 7, 1986, p. 3
  5. ^ Neue Zeit , April 27, 1979, p. 1
  6. ^ Neue Zeit , October 3, 1984, p. 1
  7. ^ The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic , 9th electoral period. P. 641; ISBN 3-329-00119-4
personal data
SURNAME Wieynk, Christine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wedegärtner, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU of the GDR), MdV, member of the Central Council of the FDJ
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Aue