Johannes Winter

This article deals with the politician Johannes Winter. For other people see Johann Winter .

Johannes Winter (born June 23, 1935 in Breslau ) is a German politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

After attending the humanistic grammar school in Niederlahnstein an der Lahn, Winter completed an apprenticeship as a church painter and restorer in a religious congregation in Simpelveld, the Netherlands , from 1950 . He worked as a restorer at the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Congregation SS.CC.) until 1960 , after which he moved to the GDR and initially worked as a stage design assistant at the municipal theaters in Erfurt. From 1964 to 1970 he was technical director at the Eduard-von-Winterstein-Theater in Annaberg-Buchholz . In 1967 he passed the examination as a master of theater technology. From 1970 to 1990 he worked as technical director at the theater of the city ​​of Cottbus . Since 1971 he was also a master of artificial lighting in the Directorate of Theater and Orchestra (DTO) in the GDR - Ministry of Culture worked, from 1981 to 1990 as chairman of the local masters Commission.

Johannes Winter is married and has two sons.

politics

Winter joined the Eastern CDU in 1967 . From 1975 to 1990 he was chairman of the local branch of the CDU Cottbus- Branitz and from 1981 to 1990 a member of the district board of the CDU Cottbus. From March to October 1990 he was a member of the first freely elected People's Chamber . Through an investigation by the People's Chamber, Winter was assumed to be working with the Ministry for State Security. He was classified as one of 56 deputies charged in the so-called category 4, which stated that access to the files on this allegation was not possible due to the files being untraceable or being destroyed. As a result, these claims remained unproven and Winter retained his mandate.

Winter was elected to the state executive committee of the CDU Brandenburg in 1990. From 1990 to 1994 he was a member of the Brandenburg State Parliament and a member of the Committee for Science, Research and Culture. In parliament he represented the constituency of Cottbus-Land - Forst II). On January 29, 1991 he resigned from the CDU parliamentary group, but remained non-attached to the state parliament until the end of the legislative period.

swell

1. ↑ see Dorit Pries Stasi employees in German parliaments ?: The review of the members of parliament for cooperation with the state security service of the former GDR . LIT publishing house Berlin-Hamburg-Münster. 2008

literature

• Christopher Hausmann. Biographical manual of the 10th People's Chamber of the GDR (1990). Cologne. 2000

Web links

• Parliamentary documentation Brandenburg (the exact data set must be determined using the search function)