Jens Spahn
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
16 May 1980 Ahaus, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Political party | Christian Democratic Union |
| Domestic partner | Daniel Funke |
| Alma mater | University of Hagen |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Jens Spahn (born 16 May 1980, in Ahaus, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German politician. He is a Member of the Bundestag (German: Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages or MdB) for Steinfurt I – Borken I. He is a member of the ruling Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU).
Spahn was the youngest Member of the German parliament, having been elected at age 22 in 2002. He has since then served in the 15th, 16th and 17th Bundestag, and is one of the main sponsors of pension reform in Germany, being a member of the Committee of Health of the 17th Bundestag and Chairman of the Working group on health and health policy as well as the spokesman of the CDU/CSU health parliamentary group.
Spahn graduated in 1999 from the Episcopal Canisius school in Ahaus, North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2001, he completed an apprenticeship as a banker at the Westdeutsche Landesbank, and worked until 2002 as a bank clerk. Since 2003, Spahn also studied Political Science and Law at the University of Hagen. In 2008, he eventually got a Bachelor’s degree, and is now carrying on to get a Master’s degree in the same field.
Spahn is a Roman Catholic and lives with his partner Daniel Funke, a German journalist, in Berlin-Schöneberg. In an article of Süddeutsche Zeitung in July 2012, his homosexuality was mentioned for the first time.
Spahn became a member of the Junge Union Deutschland (JU) in 1995, aged 15. He went on to join the CDU in 1997. He was the chairman of the Borken district JU from 1999 to 2006. From 2005, he was also the chairman of the Borken district CDU, which counts 6,500 members.
In December 2014, Spahn surprisingly stood for a place on the CDU’s ruling council against health minister Hermann Gröhe, in a contest that was widely seen as crystallizing the generational tensions within the party. His election bid was backed by the then 72-year-old finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble. Shortly before the vote at the annual CDU party conference, Gröhe withdrew his candidacy and Spahn was elected.
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