| Otto Winzer | |
| Office: | Minister for Foreign Affairs |
| 2Namedata1: | Ernst Scholz |
| Term Start: | 29 June 1965 |
| Term End: | 20 January 1975 |
| Predecessor1: | Lothar Bolz |
| Successor1: | Oskar Fischer |
| Birth Date: | 3 April 1902 |
| Birth Place: | Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire |
| Nationality: | German |
| Death Place: | East Berlin, German Democratic Republic |
| Party: | Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) |
| Profession: | Typesetter |
Otto Winzer (3 April 1902 – 3 March 1975) was an East German diplomat who served as East Germany's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1965 to 1975.
Winzer was born in Berlin in 1902.[1] He was a son of worker. Otto Winzer learned the typesetter craft.[1]
In 1919, he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany.[1] Then he became the head of Communist Youth publication. He was involved in underground activities against Adolf Hitler's regime from 1933 to 1935.[1] In 1935, Winzer went to the Soviet Union, and he stayed there until the end of World War II. During World War II, he used the code name Lorenz.[1] He returned from exile in the Soviet Union as part of the Ulbricht Group, charged with setting up the Soviet Military Administration in Germany after World War II in April 1945.[2]
Winzer joined the Socialist Unity Party, the East German communist party, in 1946, and he became a member of its central committee in 1946. He was named the deputy editor of the party's official paper Neues Deutschland in 1949.[3] Winzer was Secretary of State from 1949 to 1956 and First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1956 to 1965.[4] He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1965 to 1975. He was removed from his post due to ill health[5] and died at age 72 on 3 March 1975.[6]