1. Burkhard Blienert was born on 30 March 1966 and is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party who has been serving as Commissioner on Narcotic Drugs at the Federal Ministry of Health in the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2022.
Burkhard Blienert passed his first state exam for lower secondary school in the subjects social sciences and history.
Between 2010 and September 2013, Blienert was a speaker for school and training, sports and petitions at the SPD parliamentary group in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia.
From 2002 to 2011, Burkhard Blienert was Deputy District Chairman of the SPD in the district of Paderborn.
Since 2008, Burkhard Blienert is a member of the SPD Regional Executive for East Westphalia-Lippe, he is a deputy member of the SPD party convention.
Burkhard Blienert moved over the state list in the 18th German Bundestag.
Burkhard Blienert was a full member of the Committee on Health and the Committee on Culture and the Media and Deputy Member of the Committee on Budgets and Committee on Foreign Policies in the eighteenth legislative session of the German Bundestag.
Burkhard Blienert focuses on health on the topics of budget, drugs and addiction as well as men's health.
Furthermore, Burkhard Blienert was a member of the German-Polish, the German-Dutch and the German-Korean parliamentary groups.
Burkhard Blienert stood as a candidate for the 19th German Bundestag, but wasn't re-elected.
Burkhard Blienert is considered an advocate of the legalization of cannabis, a project provided for in the coalition agreement of the traffic light coalition.
Burkhard Blienert is a member of the Board of Directors of Filmforderungsanstalt Berlin, a member of the Radio Council and of the Economic and Financial Committee of Deutschlandradio, member of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Agency for Civic Education and Deputy Member of the Administrative Council of the German National Library.