Christoph Gensch (politician)

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Christoph gene switch (* 3. November 1978 in Two Bridges ) is a German physician and politician of the CDU . He has been a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag since May 2016 and from October 2018 until his resignation for personal and family reasons in June 2019, Secretary General of the Rhineland-Palatinate CDU.

Life

Gensch was born the son of a doctor. After graduating from the Helmholtz-Gymnasium Zweibrücken in 1999 , he studied human medicine at Saarland University from 2000 to 2007 . In 2008 he was awarded the Dissertation regulation of endothelial progenitor cells by pioglitazone and prostaglandin E1 for MD PhD . From 2009 to 2010 he received a research grant from the German Research Foundation at Harvard Medical School in Boston .

After receiving his license to practice medicine, Gensch worked from 2008 to 2014 as an assistant doctor in the department for cardiology, angiology and internal intensive medicine at the Saarland University Hospital . From 2014 to 2015 he worked as an assistant and senior physician at the Evangelical Hospital in Zweibrücken. Specialist in internal medicine since 2015 . In the same year he joined his father's medical practice for internal medicine in Zweibrücken.

From 2011 to 2013 Gensch was chairman of the CDU local branch in the city center (Zweibrücken) and from 2013 to 2016 he was chairman of the CDU district branch in Zweibrücken. Since 2014 he has been a member of the Zweibrücken city council and chairman of the CDU parliamentary group there.

He ran for the state elections on March 13, 2016 in the constituency 46 Zweibrücken and was directly elected to the state parliament. In Parliament he is a member of the Committee on Health, Care and Demography and the Committee on Environment, Energy and Nutrition. He is the commissioner for addiction and drug policy of the CDU parliamentary group.

Christoph Gensch is married.

Positions

On November 29, 2018, he announced in a television broadcast on Sat1 that he would vote for Friedrich Merz as the new party leader of the CDU.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The steep career of Christoph Gensch. In: SWR aktuell Rheinland-Pfalz. October 20, 2018, accessed January 6, 2019 .
  2. ^ Fritz Schäfer: Christoph Gensch runs for the CDU in the state elections. In: Palatine Merkur . March 26, 2015, accessed November 6, 2017 .
  3. ↑ https://www.rhein-zeitung.de/region/dpa-landesdienst_artikel,-cdugeneralsekretaer-favorisiert-merz-als-neuen-parteichef-_arid,1904037.html
personal data
SURNAME Gensch, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd November 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Zweibrücken