Bertram Wieczorek was born on 16 January 1951 and is a German physician and former politician.
14 Facts About Bertram Wieczorek
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Bertram Wieczorek served as parliamentary undersecretary in the East German Ministry for Defence and Arms Procurement between March and October 1990.
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Bertram Wieczorek was born into a Catholic family East Berlin.
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Bertram Wieczorek's father was a physician: his mother an opera singer.
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Bertram Wieczorek passed his school final exams and qualified for work as a chef in 1969 before he moved on to undertake his military service with medical corps of the National People's Army between 1969 and 1972.
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Ambitious young East Germans generally joined the ruling Socialist Unity Party, but Bertram Wieczorek joined the Christian Democratic Union.
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Bertram Wieczorek completed his professional practical training and then worked as a physician in a succession of medical practices, specialising in various "in-patient" procedures.
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Bertram Wieczorek himself resigned from New Forum at the end of the year and in January 1990 returned to the CDU.
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Bertram Wieczorek sat as a member of the Volkskammer from now till the reconfiguration that in October 1990 accompanied German reunification.
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Bertram Wieczorek was appointed to a junior post in the de Maiziere government as parliamentary undersecretary in the Ministry for Defence and Arms Procurement.
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Bertram Wieczorek was one of those members who now made the switch.
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On 31 January 1994 Bertram Wieczorek resigned his ministerial post and his membership of the Bundestag where his seat was taken over by Christa Schmidt for the two months remaining till the next general election.
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Bertram Wieczorek now moved to an important position as chairman of the board at the Berlin Water Company.
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In 1999 Bertram Wieczorek left the water company and returned to his earlier vocation, establishing himself in Rodewisch as a self-employed physician.