1. Six months after his birth, Peter Schowtka's father was kidnapped by the Soviet occupation force and taken to the NKVD Special Camp No 1 in Muhlberg, where he was killed in 1947.
12 Facts About Peter Schowtka
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Peter Schowtka attended the University of Rostock from 1964 until 1969, where he studied Latin American studies.
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However, Peter Schowtka was denied a diploma due to his "lack of socio-political maturity".
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From 1969 until 1990, Peter Schowtka worked as an economist, and he later served as an interpreter for foreigners working in lignite mines in Mozambique.
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From 1991 until his death in 2022, Peter Schowtka served as a member of the CDU's executive committee in Saxony.
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Peter Schowtka helped establish a CDU educational institute for local government in Saxony.
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Peter Schowtka negotiated a sister city partnership between Wittichenau and the town of Bad Honnef in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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In 1990, upon German reunification, Peter Schowtka was elected mayor of Wittichenau, the first person freely elected to that office in 57 years.
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The next year, Peter Schowtka became a member of the Landtag of Saxony following the resignation of Karl Sachse; Peter Schowtka was to fill the remainder of Sachse's term.
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Peter Schowtka did not run for re-election in the 2014 Saxony state election.
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Peter Schowtka was a member of a committee established to investigate the National Socialist Underground, a neo-Nazi terrorist group.
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Peter Schowtka died on 5 August 2022 at the age of 77.