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Andrew Ullmann
Andrew Ullmann (born 2 January 1963) is a German physician and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2017. Early life and career Born in Los Angeles, Ullmann spent his childhood there until he moved to Germany with his family in 1972. After graduating from high school in 1981 at the Reichenbach-Gymnasium in Ennepetal, Germany, he attended medical school at Ruhr University Bochum and graduated in 1987. During his time as a resident at the University Hospital at St. Josef Hospital in Bochum, Ullmann took part in clinical training at the Spellman Center for HIV-Related Disease at the 250-bed St Clare's Hospital, the only ward in New York State devoted to the comprehensive treatment of AIDS at the time. At Harvard Medical School he participated in an Infectious Diseases combined-fellowship program for two years. In 2008, he became assistant professor (Privatdozent) at the University Medical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundestag
The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament. It is the only federal representative body that is directly elected by the German people. It is comparable to the United States House of Representatives or the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The Bundestag was established by Title III of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (, ) in 1949 as one of the legislative bodies of Germany and thus it is the historical successor to the earlier Reichstag. The members of the Bundestag are representatives of the German people as a whole, are not bound by any orders or instructions and are only accountable to their electorate. The minimum legal number of members of the Bundestag (german: link=no, Mitglieder des Bundestages) is 598; however, due to the system of overhang and leveling seats the current 20th Bundestag has a total of 736 members, making it the largest Bundestag to date and the largest freely elected national parliamentary chamber in the wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katja Pähle
Katja Pähle (born 27 June 1977) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Since 2016, she has served as chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt. She has also been deputy leader of the party's state branch since 2015, and a member of the SPD federal executive since 2017. She was the party's lead candidate for the 2021 Saxony-Anhalt state election. Early life and career Pehle grew up in Hettstedt in Mansfelder Land, and graduated from high school in 1996. She studied sociology and psychology at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, and received her PhD in 2010. Pähle subsequently worked as a research assistant at the Collaborative Research Center 580 at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. From 2008 to 2011 she worked in the State Ministry of Health and Social Affairs in Magdeburg as a personal advisor in the ministerial office. Political career Career in state politics In 1999 Pähle became a member of the SPD. From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1963 Births
Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia. * January 2 – Vietnam War – Battle of Ap Bac: The Viet Cong win their first major victory. * January 9 – A total penumbral lunar eclipse is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 114. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963. * January 13 – 1963 Togolese coup d'état: A military coup in Togo results in the installation of coup leader Emmanuel Bodjollé as president. * January 17 – A last quarter moon occurs between the penumbral lunar eclipse and the annular solar eclipse, only 12 hours, 29 minutes after apogee. * January 19 – Soviet spy Ghe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuters
Reuters ( ) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters Corporation. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide. Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world. The agency was established in London in 1851 by the German-born Paul Reuter. It was acquired by the Thomson Corporation of Canada in 2008 and now makes up the media division of Thomson Reuters. History 19th century Paul Reuter worked at a book-publishing firm in Berlin and was involved in distributing radical pamphlets at the beginning of the Revolutions in 1848. These publications brought much attention to Reuter, who in 1850 developed a prototype news service in Aachen using homing pigeons and electric telegraphy from 1851 on, in order to transmit messages between Brussels and Aachen, in what today is Aachen's Reuters House. Reuter moved to London in 1851 and established a news wire agency at the London Royal Exchange. Headquartered in London, Reuter' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Spiegel
''Der Spiegel'' (, lit. ''"The Mirror"'') is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. With a weekly circulation of 695,100 copies, it was the largest such publication in Europe in 2011. It was founded in 1947 by John Seymour Chaloner, a British army officer, and Rudolf Augstein, a former Wehrmacht radio operator who was recognized in 2000 by the International Press Institute as one of the fifty World Press Freedom Heroes. Typically, the magazine has a content to advertising ratio of 2:1. ''Der Spiegel'' is known in German-speaking countries mostly for its investigative journalism. It has played a key role in uncovering many political scandals such as the ''Spiegel'' affair in 1962 and the Flick affair in the 1980s. According to ''The Economist'', ''Der Spiegel'' is one of continental Europe's most influential magazines. The news website by the same name was launched in 1994 under the name ''Spiegel Online'' with an independent editorial staff. Today, the content is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kordula Schulz-Asche
Kordula Schulz-Asche (born 31 December 1956) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hesse since 2013. Early life and career Schulz-Asche was born in Berlin. After graduating from the Lily-Braun-Oberschule in Spandau and training as a nurse with the German Red Cross (DRK), she studied communication sciences, history and political science at the Free University of Berlin. From 1986 to 1998 Schulz-Asche lived with her husband, the African economist Helmut Asche, and her daughter in various African countries (Burkina Faso, Rwanda and Kenya). During this time she worked for development organisations in the field of health education. From 2000 to 2003 she worked for the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ). Political career Career in state politics From 1983 until 1985, Schulz-Asche was a member of the State Parliament of Berlin. Schulz-Asche later served as a member of the State Parliam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Piechotta
Paula Louise Piechotta (born 19 September 1986) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens and a radiologist. She has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2021 elections. Early life and education Piechotta was born 1986 in the East German city of Gera as a daughter of two theology students. She studied medicine and molecular medicine at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and earned her doctorate. She lives in Leipzig and works as a radiologist at the MedVZ of Leipzig University Hospital. Political career Piechotta was a member of the youth organization of Alliance 90/The Greens and joined the party Alliance 90/The Greens in 2010. In the 2021 German federal election she ran for a direct mandate in the district Leipzig II and became second with 18.4% of the vote behind Sören Pellmann (DIE LINKE). In parliament, Piechotta has since been serving on the Budget Committee, where she is her parliamentary group's rapporteur on the annual budget of the Federal Ministr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dieter Janecek
Dieter Gerald Janecek (born 25 May 1976) is a German politician of the Green Party ( Alliance 90/The Greens) who has been serving as a member of the German Parliament since 2013. From 2008 to 2014 Janecek was chairman of the Bavarian Green Party. In addition to his parliamentary mandate, Janecek has been serving as the Coordinator for the Maritime Industry and Tourism at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action since 2023. Early life and education Janecek studied political science at the Bavarian School of Public Policy (HfP) in Munich. Political career Career in state politics In 2008, Janecek achieved via a verdict through the European Court of Justice that citizens under the impact of particulate pollution, could urge responsible authorities to reduce the pollution exceeding the legal threshold. As a consequence, Munich was forced to change its status quo and to establish a low-emission zone. Janecek served as co-chair of the Green Party in Bavaria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantin Kuhle
Konstantin Elias Kuhle (born 11 February 1989) is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Lower Saxony since 2017. Since 2023, he has been chairing the FDP in Lower Saxony. Early life and career Kuhle grew up in Eilensen and attended the Paul-Gerhardt-School in Dassel. After a year abroad in Ecuador, he graduated from high school in 2008 and subsequently worked as a civilian servant in a project for assisted living at the German Red Cross in Einbeck. In 2009 he began studying law at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and at the Sciences Po in Paris, which he completed with the first state examination in 2014. From 2009 to 2014 he was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. After his legal clerkship at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg, Kuhle successfully passed the second state examination in April 2017. He worked as a lawyer in Hannover. Polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyde Jensen
Gyde Jensen (born 14 August 1989 in Rendsburg) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2017. Education and early career Jensen studied English, Political Science, and International Politics at the University of Kiel. After her studies, she worked in Geneva and Washington, D.C. as a communications consultant for the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, which is related to the FDP. Member of the Bundestag In May 2016, the state representative assembly of the Schleswig-Holstein FDP elected Jensen to fourth place in the list for the 2017 federal elections. Jensen won the election against former member of the Bundestag, Sebastian Blumenthal. In the election, the FDP won three seats in the state of Schleswig-Holstein with 12.6 percent of the second votes. When Bernd Klaus Buchholz, second on the list, resigned his candidacy to become Schleswig-Holstein's State Minister for Economic Affairs, Jensen took his place. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic In Germany
The COVID-19 pandemic in Germany has resulted in confirmed cases of COVID-19 and deaths. On 27 January 2020, the first case in Germany was confirmed near Munich, Bavaria. By mid February, the arising cluster of cases had been fully contained. On 25 and 26 February, multiple cases related to the Italian outbreak were detected in Baden-Württemberg. A carnival event on 15 February in Heinsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, was attended by a man identified as positive on 25 February; in the outbreak which subsequently developed from infected participants, authorities were mostly no longer able to trace the likely chains of infections. On 9 March, the first two deaths in Germany were reported from Essen and Heinsberg. New clusters were introduced in other regions via Heinsberg as well as via people arriving from China, Iran and Italy, from where non-Germans could arrive by plane until 17–18 March. From 13 March, German states mandated school and kindergarten c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
