1. Frank Heinrich was born on 25 January 1964 and is a German theologian, social pedagogue and politician of the Christian Democratic Union.
10 Facts About Frank Heinrich
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In 1997, Heinrich was fully ordained as a Salvation Army Officer.
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Frank Heinrich is married since 1987 and father of four children.
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Frank Heinrich became a member of the Christian Democratic Union in 2007.
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Since November 2009 Frank Heinrich has been chairman of the CDU county chapter in Chemnitz.
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On 13 March 2021, Frank Heinrich ran against Sebastian Liebold and Nora Seitz for the nomination for the Bundestag election of the CDU in Chemnitz.
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Frank Heinrich was one of only a few members of the CDU who voted against the lifetime extension of nuclear power plans in October 2010.
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From 2012, Frank Heinrich became involved, together with 12 other CDU colleagues, in efforts to strengthen tax equality of same-sex partnerships within the law on civil unions.
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Under the umbrella of the German parliaments' godparenthood program for human rights activists, Frank Heinrich has been raising awareness for the work of persecuted Colombian lawyer Ivan Cepeda Castro since 2014.
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In 2019, Frank Heinrich joined 14 members of his parliamentary group who, in an open letter, called for the party to rally around Angela Merkel and party chairwoman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer amid criticism voiced by conservatives Friedrich Merz and Roland Koch.