Otto Winzer

Winzer was born in Berlin in 1902.{{cite news|title=Otto Winzer|url=http://www.zeit.de/1963/50/otto-winzer|access-date=12 September 2012|newspaper=Die Zeit|date=13 December 1963}} He was a son of worker. Otto Winzer learned the typesetter craft.

In 1919, he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany. Then he became the head of Communist Youth publication. He was involved in underground activities against Adolf Hitler's regime from 1933 to 1935. In 1935, Winzer went to the Soviet Union, and he stayed there until the end of World War II. During World War II, he used the code name Lorenz. He returned from exile in the Soviet Union as part of the Ulbricht Group, charged with setting up the Soviet Military Administration in Germany after World War II in April 1945.[https://www.bundesarchiv.de/oeffentlichkeitsarbeit/bilder_dokumente/00767/index-7.html.de "Die Tätigkeit der "Gruppe Ulbricht" in Berlin von April bis Juni 1945"] German Federal Archives. Retrieved 22 November 2011 {{in lang|de}}

Winzer joined the Socialist Unity Party, the East German communist party, in 1946, and he became a member of its central committee in 1946. He was named the deputy editor of the party's official paper Neues Deutschland in 1949.{{cite news|title=Ex-E. Diplomat dies|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4bNKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fJQMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2341,5077509&dq=oskar+fischer&hl=en|access-date=3 September 2012|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=4 March 1975|agency=United Press International|location=Berlin}} Winzer was Secretary of State from 1949 to 1956 and First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1956 to 1965.{{cite web|title=Winzer, Otto|url=http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0852504.html|publisher=The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia|access-date=12 September 2012}} He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1965 to 1975. He was removed from his post due to ill health{{cite news|title=E. German Post Goes to Fischer|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=W8daAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fW0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=2086,2471136&dq=oskar+fischer&hl=en|access-date=3 September 2012|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post Gazette|date=21 January 1975|agency=NYT|location=Berlin}} and died at age 72 on 3 March 1975.{{cite news|title=Dies at 73|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7Gw0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=350EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3873,817614&dq=oskar+fischer&hl=en |access-date= 3 September 2012 |newspaper= The Tuscaloosa News |date=4 March 1975}}

• Patriotic Order of Merit (1955 and 1972)
• Order of Karl Marx (1962)
• Grand Star of People's Friendship (1975)
• Otto-Winzer-Straße in Berlin-Marzahn (1978–1992, now Mehrower Allee)
• Officer College of the National People's Army, for foreign military cadres, in Prora on Rügen was named after him (1981–1990)
• The international school of the East German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Königs Wusterhausen bore his name

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