Willy Wimmer

Willy Wimmer is a German politician belonging to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany. He was a member of the Bundestag from 1976 to 2009.

Life and politics

Wimmer was born 1943 in the German town of Mönchengladbach and studied law at the University of Cologne.
Wimmer entered the CDU in 1959 and served on the city council in his home town Mönchengladbach from 1969 to 1980.
Wimmer was elected as a 'Direktkandidat' to the Bundestag in 1977 for the first time.
From 1985 to 1992 Wimmer was 'Parlamentarischer Staatssekretär', a parliament-elected bureaucratic post in the Ministry of Defence.
In 1994, Wimmer was elected vice president of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.