Hermann Winkler (politician)

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Hermann Winkler

Hermann Winkler (born April 22, 1963 in Grimma ) is a former German politician ( CDU ). He was a member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2019 and was previously Minister of State and Head of the Saxon State Chancellery from 2004 to 2007 and a member of the Saxon State Parliament from 1990 to 2009.

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1981 at the extended high school "Ernst Schneller" in Grimma, Hermann Winkler studied manufacturing process design in mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Magdeburg until 1988 (now Otto von Guericke University ). He then worked from 1988 to 1990 as a development engineer in the chemical plant construction in Leipzig- Grimma. From 1998 to 2004 he took over the office of President of the State Sports Association of Saxony and has been President of the Saxon Football Association since 2016 .

Hermann Winkler is an Evangelical Lutheran , married and has two daughters.

politics

In 1988 Hermann Winkler became a member of the CDU (GDR) , and in 1990/91 he was Deputy Mayor of Grimma. From 1990 to 1999 he was also chairman of the CDU and from 1990 to 2007 he was a member of the Muldentalkreis district executive, which he chaired from 2005 to 2007. In June 2007, he resigned from the office of district chairman of the CDU Muldental, as the district executive voted in a majority decision that the Muldental CDU members of the state parliament should vote against the coalition's opinion in the debate on administrative and functional reform in Saxony on the district seat issue . Winkler was then from 2007 to 2011 chairman of the CDU district association Leipzig-Stadt.

At the state level he was chairman of the Junge Union from 1992 to 1995 and general secretary of the Saxon Union from 2001 to 2004.

From March 20, 2006 to October 26, 2007, Hermann Winkler was a member of the administrative board of Landesbank Sachsen .

From 1990 to 2009 he was a member of the Saxon state parliament (last elected directly in 2004 in constituency 35, Muldental 2 ). There he worked for his parliamentary group as a member of the Committee on Economics, Labor and Technology and the Committee on Science and University, Culture and the Media . In addition, from November 11, 2004 to November 7, 2007, he was Minister of State for Federal and European Affairs and Head of the Saxon State Chancellery . From 2005 to 2009 he represented the Free State of Saxony in the Committee of the Regions (CoR) in Brussels.

Hermann Winkler in the 2019 EU election campaign

In the European elections on June 7, 2009, Winkler was elected to the European Parliament as the top candidate of the Saxon Union. There he was a member of the committees for Regional Development (REGI) and for Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) in the 7th electoral term. He was also a member of the delegation for EU-Ukraine cooperation and the delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly. He was a deputy in the delegation for relations with Belarus.

Since 2010, Hermann Winkler has also been a member of the Federal Committee on Foreign, European and Security Policy of the CDU in Germany. In the mid-term elections in the European Parliament in 2012, Winkler was elected spokesman for the East German CDU MEPs.

On January 18, 2014, he was nominated by the CDU Saxony as a top candidate on the state list for the election of the 8th European Parliament on May 25, 2014.

On May 6, 2014, Winkler issued an urgent warning against further economic sanctions against Russia. In a conversation with the journalist Nina-Carissima Schönrock, he made it clear that Europe urgently needs to break free from the shadow of the USA and develop a basic understanding of Russia. On June 10, 2015, he was the only CDU member to vote in the European Parliament against a resolution “On the State of Relations between the EU and Russia”, in which it was stated that “Russia at this point in time [...] was no longer considered to be more strategic Partner 'treated or viewed ". Winkler voted on March 26, 2019 in the European Parliament - initially as the only one of 34 members from the CDU / CSU parliamentary group - against the copyright reform . Thomas Mann later corrected his voting behavior to also vote against.

In January 2019, Winkler was surprisingly not nominated again as a top candidate for the upcoming European elections by the state executive of the CDU Saxony . After the CDU Saxony achieved its worst result to date of 23 percent in the European elections, Winkler left politics. He no longer has any offices or functions.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hermann Winkler  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Winkler elected SFV President. In: sfv-online.de. Sächsischer Fußball-Verband eV, April 23, 2016, accessed on May 17, 2019 .
  2. ^ Hermann Winkler new chairman of the Leipzig CDU. In: sz-online.de. October 6, 2007, archived from the original ; accessed on May 17, 2019 .
  3. ^ Hermann Winkler, 7th electoral term. In: MPs. European Parliament, accessed on 17 May 2019 .
  4. ↑ Nina-Carissima Schönrock: Ukraine crisis: “Blindness and deafness” towards Russia do not get Europe any further. In: web.de. May 5, 2014, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Anton Shekhovtsov : EU-Russia Relations: A Brief Analysis of the Vote in the European Parliament. In: de.euromaidanpress.com. June 13, 2015, accessed May 7, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Protocol. Result of roll-call votes - Annex. (PDF) European Parliament, April 11, 2019, pp. 52–53 , accessed on May 14, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Lars Wienand: Sachse voted no - CDU deviator Hermann Winkler doesn't want to be a rebel. In: t-online.de. March 26, 2019, accessed May 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Winkler, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL, MdEP
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Grimma