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Place of Birth: Ottenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Jens Spahn
- Jens Spahn (born 16 May 1980) is a German politician currently serving as Federal Minister of Health in the fourth Merkel cabinet.
- He is a member of the lower house of the federal parliament, the Bundestag (German: Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages, MdB) for Steinfurt I – Borken I and is a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), which governs in partnership with the centre-left Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Spahn was the youngest member of the German parliament, having been elected in 2002 at age 22.
- He has since then served in the 15th, 16th and 17th Bundestags and is one of the main sponsors of pension reform in Germany.
- He is a member of the Committee of Health of the 17th Bundestag and chair of the working group on health and health policy as well as the spokesman of the CDU/CSU health parliamentary group. In 2018, Chancellor Angela Merkel stated her intention not to seek re-election for the CDU party leadership.
- Immediately, Spahn announced his intention to stand for election as her successor in December 2018, but he was eliminated in the first round of voting.
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Author: © Olaf Kosinsky
Olaf Kosinsky
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| Description | German photographer and author | ||
| Date of birth | 1964 | ||
| Location of birth | Köln (Germany) | ||
| Work period | from 1980 | ||
| Work location | Mainz | ||
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Source: Own work
License: CC-BY-SA-3.0-DE
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