Otto Winzer (3 April 1902 – 3 March 1975) was an East German diplomat who served as East Germany's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1965 to 1975.
Biography
Winzer was born in Berlin in 1902. He was a son of worker. Otto Winzer learned the typesetter craft.
Winzer joined the Socialist Unity Party, the East German communist party, in 1946, and he became a member of its central committee in 1946. Winzer was Secretary of State from 1949 to 1956 and First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1956 to 1965. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1965 to 1975. He was removed from his post due to ill health and died at age 72 on 3 March 1975.
Awards and decorations
- 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