Daniel Bahr

Daniel Bahr (2012)

Election rally May 2012 in the Wolkenburg (Cologne)

Daniel Bahr (born November 4, 1976 in Lahnstein ) is a German politician ( FDP ) and company manager. From May 2011 to December 2013 he was Federal Minister of Health . Bahr has been a manager at Allianz Private Health Insurance since 2014 .

education and profession

Daniel Bahr was born in 1976 as the son of a police officer in Lahnstein. After graduating from the Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium in Münster in 1996, he completed an apprenticeship as a banker at Dresdner Bank in Schwerin and Hamburg from 1996 to 1998 . From the winter semester 1998/99 he studied economics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University (WWU) in Münster and graduated with a Bachelor of Science (BSc). In addition to his political work, he completed a part-time business management degree with a focus on International Health Care and Hospital Management, also at the University of Münster, in 2008 as a Master of Business Administration (MBA). Since 2003 he has been on leave of absence as an employee of Dresdner Bank (now Commerzbank ).

Political party

Bahr joined the Young Liberals (JuLis) in 1990 as a 14-year-old student . In 1992 he became a member of the FDP. In 1994 Bahr became chairman of the JuLi district association Münsterland and held this office until 1996. From 1996 he was a member of the National Board of Young Liberals. Initially, he was an assessor until the 1998 Federal Congress in Mainz, before he was elected Deputy Federal Chairman with the Press and Public Relations division. At the 1999 Federal Congress in Dresden, Bahr was elected Federal Chairman of the Young Liberals; he held this office until 2004. In 2006, together with Liane Knüppel , Hartmut Knüppel , Hans-Joachim Otto , Gisela Piltz , Joachim Stamp and Johannes Vogel, he founded the Netzwerk 80 eV association as an association of all federal board members and federal managing directors of the Young Liberals since 1980.

Since 2001 he has also been a member of the FDP federal executive board, initially as a representative of the Young Liberals and since 2001 as an elected member. In 2003 he was appointed chairman of the future forum "Women, child-friendly Germany, intergenerational justice" at the FDP federal executive committee. From 2006 to 2011 he was chairman of the FDP district association in Münster.

On November 27, 2010 he was elected chairman of the state at the state party conference of the North Rhine-Westphalian FDP. In the run-up to the early state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia on May 13, 2012, Bahr declared that he wanted to hand over this position to the top candidate Christian Lindner .

MP

Bahr was a member of the German Bundestag from 2002 to 2013. He always entered the Bundestag via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia . From 2002 to 2005 he was the spokesman for demographic development, disability policy and maintenance of the FDP parliamentary group . From 2005 to 2009 he was a member of the Committee on Health and health policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group.

After his party's failure at the five percent hurdle in the 2013 federal election , he resigned from the Bundestag in October 2013.

Public offices

Bahr was Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister of Health from October 29, 2009 to May 11, 2011 .

In 2010, he hit the headlines when, in the dispute over Philipp Rösler's proposals to introduce a health bonus, he accused the coalition partner CSU of having “acted as a wild boar” and “only shown itself to be destructive”.

On May 12, 2011, Bahr was appointed Federal Minister of Health by the Federal President. His predecessor in office Philipp Rösler (FDP) became Federal Minister of Economics and Vice Chancellor . In the first few weeks as Federal Health Minister, Bahr and Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner came under criticism for managing the crisis in the world's largest EHEC outbreak . In 2012, Bahr prepared the legal basis for the introduction of clinical cancer registries in Germany. In negotiations with sponsors, the Federal Minister obtained the reconstruction financing from the German Cancer Aid and the federal states. He successfully campaigned for the abolition of the practice fee introduced in 2004 .

After leaving the Bundestag

From February 2014 Bahr worked for the think tank Center for American Progress (CAP) in Washington . He also worked as a visiting professor in health economics at the University of Michigan.

On November 1, 2014, Bahr started as a general representative at Allianz Private Krankenversicherung (APKV) and was entrusted with the management of the areas of performance management and central sales coordination. On January 1, 2017, he was promoted to the board of the APKV with the same responsibility.

Bahr's move to Allianz, just ten months after leaving the Federal Minister of Health, caused criticism. Bahr is considered the "father" of the state-sponsored supplementary long-term care insurance, also known as “ Pflege-Bahr ”. Allianz is one of the largest providers of care Bahr policies. Originally Bahr was supposed to move up to the board after a few months, but the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bafin) intervened and insisted on a longer "familiarization period".

Life

Bahr is Catholic , has been married since 2008 and has three children.

In May 2019 it became known that Bahr was suffering from cancer. In March 2020, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote about his recovery.

Activities in addition to his mandate

Until September 2009, he was a member of the advisory board at ERGO Versicherungsgruppe AG in Düsseldorf and also a member of the advisory board at DUKvorsorge e. V. in Berlin.

Since January 2011 he has been the patron of the “Pain-free City of Münster” alliance .

As a member of the advisory board of Youth Against AIDS , Daniel Bahr supports an initiative initiated and led by young people, which carries out “awareness-raising and prevention work at eye level”.

Since 2012 Daniel Bahr has been one of the “Young Global Leaders” of the World Economic Forum .

Fonts

• A reform with long-term effects. A plea for the principle of personal responsibility in the health sector . In: Peter Oberender & Christoph Straub (eds.): In search of the better solution. Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Norbert Klusen (=  health economic contributions . Volume 52 ). Nomos Verlag , Baden-Baden 2008, ISBN 978-3-8329-3111-7 , p. 41-50 .
• A reform with long-term effects. A plea for the principle of personal responsibility in the health sector . In: Philipp Rösler & Christian Lindner (eds.): Freedom: felt - thought - lived. Liberal contributions to a discussion of values . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16387-1 , p. 136-147 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-531-91532-6_15 .

Web links

Commons : Daniel Bahr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Daniel Bahr  - in the news

• Daniel Bahr's website
• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Daniel Bahr on parliamentwatch.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Changes in the management. September 29, 2014, accessed on September 29, 2014 : "Daniel Bahr (37) will join Allianz Private Health Insurance (APKV) as a general representative from November 1, 2014, where he will be responsible for the areas of performance management and central sales coordination." 
2. ↑ Network 80 - Network 80. Retrieved on August 4, 2020 (German). 
3. ^ District Board ( Memento from September 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ www.fdp-muensterland.de ( Memento from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Lindner becomes the FDP top candidate in NRW in Zeit Online
6. ↑ Career on the website of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group (status: 2012; accessed: April 2020).
7. ↑ in the Passauer Neue Presse , via Gesundheit: Liberals accuse CSU of “Wildsau” policy in Spiegel Online
8. ↑ FDP versus CSU: Seehofer makes Wildsau scandal a top priority in Spiegel Online
9. ↑ dapd / dpa / mcz: Minister of Health: Bahr criticizes typically German reflexes in the EHEC crisis. In: welt.de . June 8, 2011, accessed October 7, 2018 . 
10. ^ Negotiation report , press conference on December 13, 2012, Berlin
11. ↑ Bundestag: Practice fee will be abolished on January 1 ( memento from November 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ Ansgar Graw: Daniel Bahr: A German ex-minister stirs up Obamacare. In: welt.de . April 5, 2014, accessed October 7, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Reuters: Bahr is now taking care of “Obamacare”. In: FAZ.net . February 2, 2014, accessed October 13, 2018 . 
14. ↑ Changes in the management . Alliance. September 29, 2014 .: "Daniel Bahr (37) will join Allianz Private Health Insurance (APKV) as a general representative from November 1, 2014, where he will take on the areas of benefit management and central sales coordination."
15. ↑ Daniel Bahr moves up to the board . Alliance. December 15, 2016. Archived from the original on February 27, 2017. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 26, 2017. 
16. ↑ Markus Rieksmeier: Bahr goes to Allianz - is he allowed to do that? , Insurance Financial News, November 18, 2016
17. ↑ A banker as chief doctor. FOCUS Online, May 16, 2011, accessed November 24, 2012 . 
18. ↑ The world [1]
19. ↑ WELT: Allianz Board of Directors: Ex-Health Minister Daniel Bahr suffers from cancer . May 10, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed on May 12, 2019]).
20. ↑ Daniel Bahr: Now a marathon . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 27, 2020]).
21. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten: Pain Free City: Bahr becomes patron
22. ↑ Source: Congress manual for the # ändere2014 Youth Congress, ed. from youth against AIDS eV