Werner Wünschmann

Werner Wünschmann (born October 31, 1930 in Leipzig ) is a former party functionary of the CDU in the GDR. For many years he was secretary of the main board of the CDU and represented his party as a member of the People's Chamber for several electoral terms .

Life

Wünschmann was born as the son of an employee in Leipzig, Saxony. After attending secondary school and taking his Abitur, he began teaching as a so-called new teacher from 1949, initially in Leisnig and later in Großweitzschen . Wünschmann had previously become a member of the CDU in the Soviet occupation zone as early as 1948. In parallel to his teaching activity, Wünschmann passed the first teacher examination in 1951 and the second in 1952. In Großweitzschen he was also politically active from 1949, initially as a member of the municipal council, and for a few years as deputy mayor. In 1957 Wünschmann passed his state examination as a specialist German teacher. Two years later he switched to teaching at the central party school of the CDU in Burgscheidungen for a year . Subsequently, Wünschmann moved to Berlin in 1960 to the main board of the CDU, for which he initially worked as an instructor and from 1961 to 1965 as department head for training in the secretariat of the main board. At the same time, he completed a correspondence course in history at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 1960 to 1965 , which he graduated with a degree in history. In March 1965, Wünschmann was appointed full-time secretary of the main board, and he thus assumed an important position in the CDU party apparatus, which he held until 1989. Logically, he was nominated and elected for the first time as a member of the People's Chamber in 1967. Until 1990 he then represented his party as a member of the GDR parliament. In 1972, at the 13th party congress in Erfurt, he was elected to the presidium of the main board, of which he was also a member until 1989. In the People's Chamber, Wünschmann was a member of the committee for culture, initially as secretary, and from 1971 to 1989 as deputy committee chairman. In 1985 he was at the Teacher Training College in Potsdam with the dissertation to position and contribution of the CDU in alliance in the political organization of socialist society in the GDR Dr. phil. PhD. During the political change in autumn 1989, Wünschmann lost his position in the party apparatus. At the meeting of the main board on November 10, 1989, as a representative of the old party apparatus with close ties to the state, the participants no longer expressed their trust. Nevertheless, Wünschmann continued to act for his party in his role as a member of the People's Chamber. In 1990 he worked for some time in the Ministry of Construction.

Honors

• 1966 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
• 1974 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver

literature

• Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Wünschmann, Werner . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neue Zeit of November 13, 1989, p. 2
2. ↑ Neue Zeit of October 6, 1966, p. 1
3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 4, 1974, p. 6