Karl Addicks
Karl Addicks (born December 31, 1950 in Amberg ) is a German politician ( FDP / DPS ). From 2004 to 2009 he was a member of the German Bundestag .
Life and work
After graduating from high school in 1969 in Kleve , Addicks first studied biology and chemistry and then human medicine at the Saarland University and the University of Hamburg . In 1979 he passed the state examination. From 1979 he worked as an assistant doctor in basic clinical subjects in public hospitals in Hamburg (UKE, AKB, AK St.Georg) and in Saarland. Addicks is Specialist for General Medicine and Tropical Medicine . In 1981 he was a ship's doctor for nine months on a sailing ship (crossing the Atlantic), in 1982/83 he traveled to Southeast Asia for nine months and thus got his first impressions of developing countries. From 1987 to 1997 he worked as a construction site doctor for dams , pipelines , airports and other infrastructure projects in Nigeria , Iraq and the People's Republic of China ; this gave him deep insights into the problems of developing countries. In 1994 he was at the RWTH Aachen with the thesis Epidemiological study of children in Greece regarding the exposure to arsenic, lead and mercury to Dr. med. PhD . From 1997 to 1999 he was medical director of a hospital project in Ifrane ( Morocco ). From 2000 to 2002 he worked in telephone counseling for travel medicine and had his own practice. From 2002 to 2003 he was head of a development aid project of the German Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in Marrakech . As a member of the board of trustees of the aid organization CARE Germany , he is still committed to development cooperation .
Karl Addicks lives in Saarbrücken ; he is married and has three sons.
Political party
He has been a member of the FDP since 1989. From 2000 to 2009 he was a member of the board of the FDP district association Saarbrücken-Stadt and was a co-opted member of the state board. Since 2012 he has been a member of the board of the OV Saarbrücken St. Johann-Nord.
MP
On November 1, 2004, Addicks replaced the resigned MP Christoph Hartmann in the German Bundestag . Here he became chairman of the FDP in the petitions committee and deputy member of the committee for economic cooperation and development . In 2005 he was re-elected to the German Bundestag as the top candidate of the FDP Saar. Since then he has been spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group for development cooperation. Karl Addicks is always on the national list of Saarland pulled into the Bundestag. His home constituency is Saarbrücken . Addicks ran again on December 6, 2008 as the top candidate of the FDP Saar for the upcoming federal election in 2009, but was defeated by the chairman of the Young Liberals Saar, Oliver Luksic .
Addicks is primarily involved in the health problems of developing countries , especially in the area of malaria , AIDS , tuberculosis and tropical poverty-related diseases and in basic issues of development policy .
Web links
- Karl Addicks website
- Biography at the German Bundestag
- Kitchen radio 188 - detailed interview with Karl Addicks
Individual evidence
- ↑ Our structure. CARE Deutschland eV, accessed on March 12, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Addicks, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (FDP, DPS), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | On the mountain |