Gerhard Woitzik

Gerhard Woitzik (born November 15, 1927 in Fifthichen near Breslau ) is a German politician of the Center Party and its party leader .

Family and work

Woitzik was a soldier in World War II . After the war he came to the Rhineland as a displaced person . There he completed an administration apprenticeship from 1947. Via advancement courses he got into the higher administrative service and worked for the Rhineland Regional Council in Cologne. His son Hans-Joachim Woitzik (* 1957) also belongs to the Center Party and has been the party's parliamentary group leader in the Dormagen city council since 2004 .

Political activity

Woitzik was chairman of the German Center Party from 1974 to 1986 and from 1996 to 2009, which represents a Christian-socially conservative basic attitude. Whether he or Alois Degler was chairman of the party from 2009 to 2011 was controversial. On February 19, 2011, the Federal Executive Committee of the Center Party was newly elected and Woitzik was confirmed as chairman.

Woitzik had been a member of the Nievenheim municipal council since the 1950s and was mayor of the municipality until it was incorporated in Dormagen in 1975 . Afterwards he was a member of the city council in Dormagen , temporarily second mayor and until 2004 parliamentary group chairman. Since 1999 he has also been a member of the district council of the Rhein-Kreis Neuss .

Individual evidence

↑ Federal Members' Assembly of February 20, 2009. Center Party, January 11, 2010, archived from the original on July 20, 2011 ; accessed on January 29, 2014 .
↑ Contact. German Center Party , August 18, 2010, archived from the original on August 18, 2010 ; Retrieved August 18, 2010 .
^ Federal Executive Board of the German Center Party, information on zentrumspartei.eu, updated on February 22, 2011 ( Memento from July 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Two Schleswig-Holsteiners in the new federal executive board, information on the homepage of the regional association of the ZENTRUM Schleswig-Holstein, updated on February 21, 2011 ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

NGZ online: Gerhard Woitzik will turn 75 on Friday ( memento from February 20, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), last updated on November 14, 2002 21:27
Taz: The last and the first , dated January 2, 2006

personal data
SURNAME	Woitzik, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (center)
DATE OF BIRTH	November 15, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fifth oak near Breslau

[1] Federal Members' Assembly of February 20, 2009. Center Party, January 11, 2010, archived from the original on July 20, 2011 ; accessed on January 29, 2014 .

[2] Contact. German Center Party , August 18, 2010, archived from the original on August 18, 2010 ; Retrieved August 18, 2010 .

[3] Federal Executive Board of the German Center Party, information on zentrumspartei.eu, updated on February 22, 2011 ( Memento from July 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

[4] Two Schleswig-Holsteiners in the new federal executive board, information on the homepage of the regional association of the ZENTRUM Schleswig-Holstein, updated on February 21, 2011 ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )