Gerhard Woitzik

Woitzik was chairman of the Centre Party, from 1974 to 1986 and from 1996 to 2009, having a basic attitude of Christian social conservativism. Whether he^[1] or Alois Degler^[2] from 2009 to 2011 was chairman of the party was controversial. On 19 February 2011, the Bundesstelle der Zentrumspartei was newly elected and Woitzik was confirmed as party chairman.

Woitzik had belonged to the municipal council of Nievenheim since the 1950s and was mayor of the municipality until its incorporation into Dormagen in 1975. Afterwards, he was a member of the town council in Dormagen, serving as vice-mayor until 2004. Since 1999 he was also a member of the Kreistag of Rhein-Kreis Neuss.

His son, Hans-Joachim Woitzik (born 1957), also belongs to the Centre Party, and since 2004 has been the chairman of the party in the town council of Dormagen.

Gerhard Woitzik died on 29 January 2023, at the age of 95.^[3]