Josef Winkler
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Josef Philip Winkler (born April 5, 1974 in Koblenz) is a German politician and member of the German Green Party "Bündnis 90/Die Grünen". He has been a member of the Deutscher Bundestag, the German Parliament, since 2002.
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[edit] Family
Winkler's mother, Chinnamma, was born in the Indian state of Kerala. She is married with Martin Winkler, a German born in Saarland. Both are living in Bad Ems.
[edit] Professional career
Winkler did his Abitur in 1993 at the Goethe-Gymnasium in Bad Ems, his hometown. After this he started a schooling as a nurse in orthopaedics and geriatric psychiatry which he ended in 1997 with a professional degree.
[edit] Political career
At the age of 16, Winkler became a member of the German Green Party in 1990, when he still was a student. One year later, Winkler became spokesman of the party's local chapter for two years. From 1994 till 1999 Winkler was deputary and chairman of his faction in Bad Ems' city council. After this, Winkler became member and chairman of this faction of the district council of the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis until 2003. Since 2001, Winkler has been a member of the regional association's executive board of his party in Rhineland-Palatinate, called "Parteirat".
Since 2002, Josef Winkler has been a member of the German Bundestag. As spokesman for church policy and the interreligious dialogue of his parliamentary faction, he is the leader of his faction's work group for religion policy. He is also the spokesman for Immigration policy and from 2002 till 2005 he was spokesman for democratic development. He is a member in the Interior Committee and the Committee on Petitions. Since 2003, Winkler has been a member in the German delegation for the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
[edit] External links
- josef-winkler.de (German)
- biography site at bundestag.de (German)
