Wolfgang Wodarg was born on 2 March 1947 and is a German physician and politician.
13 Facts About Wolfgang Wodarg
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Wolfgang Wodarg was a member of the Bundestag for the SPD from 1994 to 2009.
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Wolfgang Wodarg got his physician's licence in 1973, and in 1974 he received his Dr med.
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Wolfgang Wodarg subsequently began work as a ship's doctor, and following a research trip to South Africa he began in the position of port doctor in Hamburg.
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Wolfgang Wodarg is a lecturer at the University of Flensburg.
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Wolfgang Wodarg has been member of the Social Democratic Party from 1988 until 2021.
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From 19 November 2005 to 1 December 2007 Wolfgang Wodarg was chairman of the SPD district of Flensburg.
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Since 1990 Wolfgang Wodarg has been member of the executive committee of the national Association of Social Democrats in the Health Sector, and since 1994 the federal deputy chairman, and in 2002 he became elected chairman of the federal Committee.
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Wolfgang Wodarg first came to the attention of the general public in the 1980s when he was head of the Public Health Department in Flensburg, Germany and hired the medical impostor Gert Postel as deputy head, later famously revealed to be a postman by training.
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From 1986 to 1998 Wolfgang Wodarg belonged to the parish council of his native Nieby.
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Wolfgang Wodarg was a representative for the directly elected Bundestag seat for the Flensburg-Schleswig constituency from 1994 but lost his mandate in the 2009 German federal election.
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Since 1999 Wolfgang Wodarg has belonged to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
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Wolfgang Wodarg gained notoriety during public discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic when he argued that SARS-CoV-2 was only one of many similar viruses which usually go undetected as part of an ordinary seasonal period of respiratory infections, and that the worldwide activities to stop the pandemic were "hype" caused by the selective perception of researchers.