1. Frank Henkel was born on 16 November 1963 and is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who served as a Mayor and Senator of the Interior and Sports of the German state of Berlin from 2011 until 2016.
12 Facts About Frank Henkel
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From 2008 Henkel was the opposition leader in the Abgeordnetenhaus, the state parliament of Berlin, in which he has been an MP since 31 October 2001.
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Frank Henkel was born and raised in East Berlin and attended Polytechnic Secondary School.
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Frank Henkel began an apprenticeship after school, but in 1981 the family moved to West Berlin, after their request for departure was granted.
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Since 1985 Frank Henkel was a member of Junge Union, since 1986 of the CDU.
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Frank Henkel worked as a speaker in the executive staff of the district mayor of Reinickendorf, Berlin, from 1996 to 2001.
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In May 2005 Frank Henkel was elected Secretary General of the Berlin CDU, serving under the leadership of successive chairmen Ingo Schmitt and Joachim Zeller.
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In 2011 Frank Henkel became frontrunner in the 2011 Berlin state elections and led the CDU back into the state government.
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In December 2015, Frank Henkel presided over the CDU's 2014 national convention in Berlin.
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Frank Henkel again led his party in the 2016 state elections.
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Frank Henkel's party ended up falling from 23 per cent in 2011 to 17.6 per cent, its lowest result in Berlin.
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Frank Henkel was a CDU delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2017.