Werner Winter (General)

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Werner Winter (born April 2, 1923 in Remse ) was Lieutenant General of the National People's Army (NVA) of the German Democratic Republic .

biography

The son of a construction worker worked as a farm worker from 1937 to 1940 after primary school . 1940 followed his invitation to the armed forces , in which he for the sergeant of the Armored Corps rise. In 1945 he got into Soviet captivity , from which he was released 1949th On September 1, 1949, he appeared as a cadet in the German People's Police on (DVP), he will be very quickly became the Department Head and Deputy Chief for training the 4th People's Police willingness Saxony rose. In 1950 he became a department head in the VP office Eggesin and VP readiness in Meiningen . After a one-year special course in the USSR , between 1952 and 1955 he was employed as an officer in the training and inspection administrations as well as motorization in the barracked people's police (KVP) . During this time he joined the SED in 1953 and was then briefly in 1956 department head for tanks and mechanization in the administration training in the Ministry of National Defense (MfNV).

Subsequently, from 1956 to 1959 he was commander of the 16 " Leo Jogiches " tank regiment in Grossenhain and then until 1961 1st deputy commander of the 7th Panzer Division . After a two-year course at the General Staff Academy of the USSR , which he graduated in 1964 with a diploma in military science, on August 1, 1964, he became the rank of lieutenant colonel in command of the 7th Panzer Division in Dresden . As such, he was promoted to colonel on October 7, 1964, the 15th anniversary of the founding of the GDR , and then appointed major general on March 1, 1966, the 10th anniversary of the NVA . During this time, the 7th Panzer Division was also one of the units that were initially placed in readiness for marching after the events of the Prague Spring . On November 8, 1971, he returned to the MfNV, where he was deputy head of the training administration for a year, before being employed as deputy head of LaSK for training in the NVA's land forces command from 1972 to 1977 . From 1977 until his release on April 30, 1983, he was commander of the NVA officers' college in Löbau . As such, he was promoted to lieutenant general on October 7, 1977, the 29th day the GDR was founded .

Awards

Publications

  • The conduct of combat training . In: Military , Berlin 1976, No. 10, pp. 39–47.

source

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The 7th Panzer Division. Materials in the Federal Archives ( Memento of the original dated December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / startext.net-build.de
  2. ^ "The End of the Song. The GDR People's Army and the End of the Prague Spring" , MDR August 21, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Winter, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military, officer of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Remse