Winfried Kothe

Winfried Kothe (* the thirtieth May 1939 in Sagan ) is a former German assistant priest and politician of the CDU . From 1990 to 1994 he was a member of the Thuringian state parliament ; In 1994 he moved to the DSU .

After the apprenticeship as an electrical engineering company Kothe was 1960-1965 Deacon students and since 1964 deacon . From 1965 to 1972 he was a preacher and parish deacon in the Protestant parish of Nottleben . At the same time, he completed a two-year training course at the Protestant Preacher's School in Erfurt. After his ordination , Kothe worked as a parish vicar in the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Office in Rauenstein from 1972 to 1990 . From December 1989 to September 1990 he was a member of the CDU-East party executive . From May 1990 he was community representative in Rauenstein.

Kothe is a founding member of the Evangelical Lutheran Diakoniewerk eV Sonneberg and a member of the "Brotherhood on the Lindenhof" Neinstedt .

Kothe is married and has three children.

In November 2007, Kothe hit the headlines when, as the district chairman of the Association of Expellees in Hildburghausen, he and NPD members held a rally on Memorial Day and gave a speech that critics rated as revanchist. Thereupon the responsible visitator, senior church councilor Marita Krüger of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in Central Germany (today's Evangelical Church in Central Germany ) distanced herself from her former clergyman.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ p. 23 in: Thüringer Landtag - Handbook 1st electoral period . Weimar 1991, ISBN 3-7400-0811-3
2. ↑ DIE LINKE parliamentary group in the Thuringian state parliament (ed.): Black book CDU rule in Thuringia . 2009, p. 172; Hildburghausen: Public debate about Shoah relativizers Kothe and BdV on the website of the Antifascist Groups South Thuringia (AGST)