Kurt Wünsche | |
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 Wünsche (front row, fifth from left) during the memorial service for theLangenweddingen level crossing disaster in 1967 | |
| Minister of Justice | |
| In office 11 January 1990 – 16 August 1990 | |
| Minister-President | |
| Preceded by | Hans-Joachim Heusinger |
| Succeeded by | Manfred Walther(acting) |
| In office 14 July 1967 – 16 October 1972 | |
| Chairman of the Council of Ministers | |
| Preceded by | Hilde Benjamin |
| Succeeded by | Hans-Joachim Heusinger |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1929-12-14)14 December 1929 |
| Died | 14 June 2023(2023-06-14) (aged 93) |
| Political party | Association of Free Democrats (1990) |
| Other political affiliations | Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (1946–1990) |
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| Occupation | Politician |
Kurt Wünsche (14 December 1929 – 14 June 2023) was a German politician who was twiceMinister of Justice of theGerman Democratic Republic.
Wünsche grew up and received his schooling inDresden.[1] In 1946, he became a member of theLiberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD), and was until 1951 an official of the LDPD local district association (Kreisverbandes) in Dresden and the state association (Landesverbandes) of Saxony. From 1951 to 1954 he was the head of the LDPD department organising the party's central executive. After the events of the17 June 1953, he was suspected as a foreign agent and temporarily detained by theStasi. After 1954, he was a member of the LDPD Political Committee, and a Secretary and Deputy Secretary General, while in 1967 he was made deputy chairman of the LDPD.
Between 1954 and 1959, he completed acorrespondence PhD in Law from theWalter Ulbricht Academy of Law and Political Science in collaboration withManfred Gerlach; his thesis was entitled "Function and development of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany in the multi-party system of the German Democratic Republic".
From 1954 to 1972, he was a LDPD deputy to theVolkskammer, first as a member of the Youth Committee, then of the Judiciary Committee, and finally of the Legal Committee. In 1965, he became one of the nine Deputy Chairmen of theCouncil of Ministers. In 1967, he succeededHilde Benjamin as Minister of Justice, a position he held until 1972.
After thefall of the Berlin Wall, Wünsche was again made Minister of Justice in the governments ofHans Modrow andLothar de Maizière.[2]
Wünsche died in Berlin on 14 June 2023, at the age of 93.[3]
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