Michael Wonneberger

Candidate poster for the 1994 federal election

Michael Wonneberger (born April 25, 1944 in Breslau ; † April 24, 2008 in Cottbus ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

Michael Wonneberger attended elementary school in Zwickau and middle school in Werdau ( Saxony ). He then did an apprenticeship as a farmer. In the years 1965 to 1968 he studied at the engineering school for agricultural technology in Nordhausen (degree: engineer for agricultural technology ). From 1971 to 1976 he continued his studies at the engineering college in Berlin-Wartenberg , graduating with a degree in agricultural engineering . He was married and had two children. He died after a long and serious illness.

politics

Wonneberger joined the CDU in 1968 and was local chairman of his party from 1969 to 1979 in Laubsdorf and from 1984 to 1988 in Cottbus. From 1979 to 1990 he was a member of the Cottbus district board and since 1989 a member of the state board of the Brandenburg CDU.

He sat in the People's Chamber of the GDR from March 18 until its last session on October 2, 1990 . On October 3, 1990, he became a member of the German Bundestag . In the 1990 Bundestag election , he won the direct mandate for the constituency of Cottbus - Spree-Neisse . He left the Bundestag in 1998. There he was on the Committee for Economic Cooperation and Development. He also sat as member of parliament in the NATO -Gremium North Atlantic Assembly . After retiring from federal politics, he became a member of the city ​​council in Cottbus in 1998 and became its chairman in 2003.

Within his party, he was also a member of the Christian Democratic Workers' Union (CDA) and the Local Political Association (KPV).

Web links

• Biography at the German Bundestag
• René Wappler: Mourning for politician Michael Wonneberger. In Lausitzer Rundschau on April 25, 2008.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lutz Richter: Gravestones South Cemetery (Cottbus). In: GenWiki . 2014, accessed February 16, 2015 .