Rudolf Henke
Rudolf Henke, born on June 5, 1954 in Birch (now Düren), is a German politician, internist and Member of Parliament for the CDU (Christian Democratic Union of Germany; Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands). Since 1989, Henke has been a part of the Board of the doctors' union Marburger Bund, whose presidency he took over in 2007. In 2011, he was also elected President of the Medical Association of North Rhine.
Political career[edit]
Since 1981, Rudolf Henke has been a member of the Board Meeting of the North Rhine Medical Association, and since 1985 the Chamber Board, where he in in November 2011 became president. In 1995, he was first elected to the board of the German Medical Association. Since 1991, he has held the post of first president of the national association of North Rhine-Westphalia / Rhineland-Palatinate in the Marburger Bund. On November 10, 2007, Henke was elected as the successor of Frank Ulrich Montgomery as Chairman of the Marburger Bund. Henke is also a German delegate of the World Medical Association. On October 26, 2013, Henke was re-elected for the third time. From 1995 to 2009, Rudolf Henke represented the constituency Aachen-II as a direct candidate of the CDU in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. In the federal election on September 27, 2009, Henke was directly elected to the parliament constituency in Aachen as a Member of Parliament. Henke was able to push through to the current Federal Minister of Health Ulla Schmidt, who was by then elected directly in Aachen. In the 2013 federal election, Henke reached 40.79% of the primary vote mark for entry into the Bundestag. Henke retired from the North Rhine-Westphalia state, as successor Claudia moved to Middendorf. He is a regular member of the Committee on Health and substitute member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag.
Education[edit]
After graduating high school in Düren and studying medicine in Aachen, Rudolf Henke received his license in 1979. Since 1988, he has been a specialist in internal medicine. He became a senior physician at the Department of Hematology and Oncology at St. Anthony's Hospital in Eschweiler.
