Horst Winterstein
Horst Winterstein (born October 5, 1934 in Novi-Sivac , Yugoslavia , † July 24, 2006 ) was a German lawyer and politician ( SPD ).
Life and work
Horst Winterstein is the son of SPD politician Ladislaus Winterstein and brother of SPD politician Norbert Winterstein . Horst Winterstein spent his childhood in Yugoslavia, but the family had to leave the country after the Second World War . After high school he took a study of the legal and political sciences in Frankfurt am Main on which he finished with the first legal state examination. He then worked for the financial administration of the State of Hesse until 1966 and was also admitted to the bar.
Political party
Winterstein joined the SPD in 1951 and was later deputy chairman of the SPD district of Hessen-Süd and a member of the party's state executive committee . In the SPD exclusion proceedings against Diether Dehm after his exposure as an unofficial employee of the GDR State Security in May 1996, he took over the function of his internal party legal advisor. Winterstein claimed that the SED state research association had received "several hundred thousand D-Marks" from Deutsche Bank in order to expose the "banking opponent Dieter Dehm" as an IM informant. Klaus Schroeder called this representation in the FAZ a "fairy tale".
MP
Winterstein was a city councilor in Hattersheim am Main from 1960 to 1978 and became a member of the local council in 1968. He was a member of the Hessian state parliament from June 8, 1976 (as the successor to the resigned MP Heiner Dudene ) to April 5, 1991 in its 8th to 13th legislative period , was deputy chairman there from 1978 to 1980 and from March 26, 1980 to on June 26, 1984 chairman of the SPD parliamentary group . He ran unsuccessfully in the constituency Main-Taunus II ; he always succeeded in entering the state parliament via the state list of the SPD.
Public offices
On July 4, 1984, Winterstein was appointed as Hessian Minister of the Interior in the Hessian state government led by Prime Minister Holger Börner . During his tenure, he was seen as a supporter of the red-green coalition and as a link between the Hessian Minister for Environment and Energy Joschka Fischer and the Prime Minister. After the break of the coalition in February 1987 and the defeat of the SPD in the state elections on April 5, 1987, Winterstein left the government on April 24, 1987 and was replaced as Minister of the Interior by CDU politician Gottfried Milde .
See also: Cabinet Börner III
Other functions
From 1998 to 2004 Winterstein was chairman of the supervisory board of the Hessian DJH state association.
Honors
- 1983: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
Publications
- An enemy of the state for the Stasi - for Gauck too! - Das Lehrstück Dehm In: Jochen Zimmer (Ed.): The Gauck reading book. An authority apart from the constitution? , Eichborn-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-8218-1532-9 . Online version on the homepage of Diether Dehm , whom in this article, contrary to the public accusations of Wolf Biermann, as Dehm's defense lawyer, he acquitted of the suspicion of having gained the trust of the singer-songwriter who was expelled from the GDR as an MFS spy. For the political scientist and GDR researcher Klaus Schroeder in a review published in November 2016,this portrayal of Winterstein isconsidered very untrustworthy.
Web links
- Winterstein, Horst. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ladislaus Winterstein. Hessian biography (as of November 2, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Winterstein, Horst. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ Horst Winterstein In: Jochen Zimmer (Ed.): The Gauck Reading Book. An authority apart from the constitution? Eichborn-Verlag, 1999.
- ^ A b Klaus Schroeder: Project group moral disposal. In: FAZ.net . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 16, 1999, accessed on April 19, 2020 .
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Rudolf Freidhof (1946–1947) | Albert Wagner (1947–1949) | Ludwig Bodenbender (1949–1953) | Heinrich Schneider (1953–1955) | Ludwig Bodenbender (1955–1958) | Georg Buch (1958–1960) | Willi Zinnkann (1960–1961) | Rudi Arndt (1961–1964) | Johannes Strelitz (1964–1967) | Erwin Lang (1967–1969) | Werner Best (1969–1970) | Heribert Reitz (1970–1972) | Hans Krollmann (1972–1973) | Willi Görlach (1973–1974) | Armin Clauss (1974-1976) | Karl Schneider (1976–1980) | Horst Winterstein (1980–1984) | Ernst Welteke (1984–1987) | Hans Krollmann (1987–1988) | Ernst Welteke (1988–1991) | Lothar Klemm (1991–1994) | Armin Clauss (1994-2001) | Gerhard Bökel (2001–2003) | Jürgen Walter (2003–2007) | Andrea Ypsilanti (2007-2009) | Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel (2009–2019) | Nancy Faeser (since 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Winterstein, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Novi Sivac , Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 2006 |