Daniel Bahr is Federal Minister of Health. He was previously Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Health. He was born in 1976 in Lahnstein (Rhineland-Palatinate) and is married.

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Born on 4 November 1976 in Lahnstein, Rhineland-Palatinate; married

since 1992
Member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP)

1996
Abitur (German equivalent to A-levels)

1996 - 1998
Trained in banking at the Dresdner Bank AG

subsequently
Studied economics at the University of Münster (Obtained Bachelor of Science in Economics); Studied business management majoring in international health care and hospital management (Obtained Master of Business Administration)

since 1996
Employed by the Dresdner Bank AG: on unpaid sabbatical since 2003

since 1998
Member of the Federal Executive of the FDP

1999 - 2004
Federal Chairman of the Young Liberals

since 2002
Member of the German Bundestag

2002 - 2005
Spokesman of the FDP parliamentary group in the German Bundestag for demographic development, health care and people living with disabilities

2005 - 2009
Health-policy spokesman of the FDP parliamentary group in the German Bundestag

since 2010
State chairman of the FDP in North-Rhine/Westphalia

2009 - 2011
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Health

since May 2011
Federal Minister of Health

Photos small and large: REGIERUNGonline/Chaperon

Berlin office
Friedrichstraße 108
10117 Berlin
Postal address: 11055 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 3018 441-0
Fax: +49 (0) 3018 441-1921

Bonn office
Rochusstraße 1
53123 Bonn
Postale address: 53107 Bonn
Phone: +49 (0) 228-99441-0
Fax: +49 (0) 228-99441-1921

Website of the Federal Ministry of Health