Hermann Winkler

Hermann Winkler ( born April 22, 1963 in Grimsby ) is a German politician ( CDU). He is since 2009 Member of the European Parliament and previously from 2004 to 2007 Minister of State and Chief of the Saxon State Chancellery and 1990-2009 Member of the Saxon parliament.

Life and career

After his graduation in 1981 from the Advanced High School " Ernst Schneller " (now College St. Augustine ) in Grimsby studied Hermann Winkler to 1988 at the Technical University (now Otto -von- Guericke- University ) Magdeburg manufacturing process design in mechanical engineering Dipl. -Ing. Subsequently, he was from 1988 to 1990 development engineer in chemical plant Leipzig Grimsby. He took over from 1998 to 2004 president of the Sports Federation Saxony.

Hermann Winkler is Evangelical Lutheran, married and has two daughters.

Policy

In 1988, Hermann Winkler member of the CDU ( the GDR), 1990/91, he was Deputy Mayor of Grimsby. From 1990 to 1999 he was there also Chairman of the CDU and was from 1990 to 2007 a ​​member of the District Executive Muldentalkreis which he presided as chairman from 2005 to 2007. In June 2007, he resigned from the office of the county chairmen of the CDU Mulde, as the district executive in a decision mostly for uttered that Muldentaler CDU member of parliament to vote against the coalition opinion in the debate on administrative and functional reform in Saxony in the county seat question. Winkler was followed from 2007 to 2011 Chairman of the CDU district association Leipzig City.

At the state level, he was from 1992 to 1995 Chairman of the Junge Union and 2001-2004 Secretary General of the Saxon Union.

20 March 2006 to 26 October 2007 Hermann Winkler was a member of the Board of Directors of Landesbank Sachsen.

He was from 1990 to 2009 Member of the Saxon Parliament ( last directly elected in 2004 in the constituency 35, Mulde 2). There he worked for his group as a member of the Committee on Economic, Employment and Technology and the Committee on Science and University, Culture and the Media. In addition, he was on 11 November 2004 to 7 November 2007 Nation Minister for Federal and European Affairs and Head of the Saxon State. From 2005 to 2009 he represented the Free State of Saxony in the Committee of the Regions ( CoR) in Brussels.

In the European elections on 7 June 2009 Winkler was selected as the top candidate of the Saxon Union in the European Parliament. He is a member of the Committees on Regional Development (REGI ) and on Industry, Research and Energy ( ITRE). He is also a member of the Delegation for Cooperation EU - Ukraine and the Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly EURO- NEST. Deputy, he is in the Delegation for relations with Belarus.

Since 2010 Hermann Winkler is also a member of the Federal Committee on Foreign Affairs, European and Security Policy of the CDU in Germany. In the mid-term elections in the European Parliament in 2012 Winkler was elected Speaker of the East German CDU MEP.

On January 18, 2014 he was nominated by the CDU Saxony as the leading candidate on the national list to select the 8th European Parliament on 25 May 2014.