1. Rudolf Paul Maria Henke was born on 5 June 1954 and is a physician and politician of the Christian Democratic Union who served as a member of the German Bundestag from 2009 until 2021.
10 Facts About Rudolf Henke
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Rudolf Henke has been on the board of directors of the physicians' trade union Marburger Bund since 1989, becoming chair in 2007.
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Rudolf Henke is a German delegate to the World Medical Association.
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Rudolf Henke joined the Christian Democratic Union in 1992 and became a member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia in the 1995 state elections.
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Rudolf Henke remained a member of the parliament until 2009, having been twice re-elected, holding positions on the Committee on Labour, Health and Social Affair and the Committee on Research and Technology.
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Rudolf Henke was directly elected to the Bundestag in the Aachen I constituency in 2009, receiving more votes than incumbent federal health minister Ulla Schmidt in the process.
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In June 2017, Rudolf Henke voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.
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Ahead of the 2021 Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election, Rudolf Henke publicly endorsed Armin Laschet to succeed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the party's chair.
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Rudolf Henke is married with four children, and lives in Burtscheid, Aachen.
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Rudolf Henke was deputy chair of the CDU in the city between 1999 and 2013.