Günter Winands

Günter Winands, 2015

Günter Winands (born December 12, 1956 in Grotenrath , now Geilenkirchen ) is a German political official . From 2005 to 2010 he was State Secretary in the Ministry for Schools and Further Education of North Rhine-Westphalia . Since 2013 he has been Ministerial Director and Head of Office at the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Übach-Palenberg , Winands studied law and political science at the University of Bonn from 1976 until his first state examination in 1982 . He was a scholarship holder of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . Parallel to his legal clerkship, he worked as a research assistant at Josef Isensee's chair and studied administrative science at the DHV Speyer . 1986 took place the second state examination in law. 2013 doctorate Winands to Dr. jur. with the dissertation “The School Trial. Historical Development and Applicable Law ”at the Law Faculty of the University of Bonn.

After completing his legal training, Winands became a research assistant in the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in 1986 as an adviser to the then legal advisor Manfred Langner . In 1990 he moved to the Federal Chancellery , where from 1991 to 1998 he was Head of the Cabinet and Parliamentary Section and Permanent Secretary of the Federal Cabinet, both in the management group of the Head of the Federal Chancellery, first with Federal Minister Rudolf Seiters , then with Federal Minister Friedrich Bohl . From 1999 until his appointment as State Secretary, he worked in various functions at the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, most recently as Ministerial Director responsible for fundamental issues and legal frameworks for culture as well as central issues. He was there u. a. Head of the development staff of the Federal Cultural Foundation (2002/2003) and federal negotiator in the federal-state working group on the systematisation of cultural funding in Germany (2001–2005). From July 1, 2005 until the replacement of the Rüttger government by the Kraft I government in July 2010, Winands was State Secretary in the Ministry for Schools and Further Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, led by Barbara Sommer ( CDU ). He was there u. a. Member of the first board of trustees of the foundation Every child an instrument . Since 2011, Winands has been working again for the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media, initially as head of the Media and Film, International Affairs group, and since 2013 as head of office and associated with this as head of the department for culture and media in the Federal Chancellery. He takes a large number of bodies memberships in the whole state important cultural and media institutions true (u. A. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation , Foundation of Weimar Classics , German National Library , German Historical Museum , Bayreuth Festival , home of West Germany , Federal Art Gallery , German Cinematheque Foundation ) and is Member of the Broadcasting Council of Deutsche Welle .

Winands is a Roman Catholic, married with two grown children.

Web links

Commons : Günter Winands  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Günter Winands' curriculum vitae (PDF; 58 kB) in the media database NRW (accessed February 22, 2011)
• Organigram of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (PDF, accessed January 28, 2014)