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Hermann Winkler

Hermann Julian Winkler (born 22 April 1963) is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany from 2009 until 2019. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party. From 2004 to 2007 he was Cabinet Minister and Head of the State Chancellery of Saxony.

After his Abitur, Winkler entered the Technical University of Magdeburg to study mechanical engineering and graduated as Dipl.-Ing. From 1988 to 1990 he worked as Engineer in the VEB Chemieanlagenbau Leipzig-Grimma.

He is married and has two daughters.

In 1988, Hermann Winkler joined the Christian Democratic Union (East Germany).

Winkler was chair of the Grimma Christian Democratic Union Municipal Association from 1990 to 1999, member of the CDU District Council of the Muldentalkreis from 1990 to 2007 (2005 to 2007 as chair) and is District Chair of the Leipzig CDU since 2007.

In addition, Winkler was regional chair of the Youth Section of the CDU in Saxony (1992–1995) and Secretary-General of the Saxony CDU from 1998 to 2004.

In the years 1990–91 Winkler was Deputy Mayor of Grimma.

From 1990 to 2009, Winkler was Member of the Landtag of Saxony, the German state of Saxony's parliament. and from 2004 to 2007 Cabinet Minister for European and State Affairs and Head of the State Chancellery of Saxony under Minister-President Georg Milbradt. In this capacity, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the publicly owned Landesbank Sachsen – at the time the smallest of Germany's Landesbanken – between 2006 and 2007, until its near-collapse and its subsequent sale to LBBW. He also represented Saxony on the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) between 2005 and 2009.

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