Heinrich Windelen

Heinrich Windelen (25 June 1921 – 16 February 2015) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union.

He served as a Member of the Bundestag from 1957 to 1990, and as Federal Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and War Victims in the Cabinet Kiesinger in 1969 and as Federal Minister of Intra-German Relations in the Cabinet Kohl II from 1983 to 1987.

Former Chancellor Joseph Wirth visited Windelen's family several times.

Windelen passed his Abitur in 1939 in Striegau and was drafted to the mandatory Reichsarbeitsdienst.

[citation needed] In 1941, he was conscripted into the Wehrmacht and became a POW in 1945 with the rank of a Feldwebel.