Jens Spahn

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jens Spahn
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	May 16, 1980(1980-05-16)
Age	44
Birthplace	Ahaus
Country	Germany
Birth City	Ahaus
Horoscope	Taurus

Jens Spahn Biography

Jens Spahn is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on May 16, 1980 in Ahaus, Ahaus, Germany. Jens Spahn (born 16 May 1980) is a German politician currently serving as Federal Minister of Health in the fourth Merkel cabinet. He is a member of the lower house of the federal parliament, the Bundestag (German: Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages, MdB) for Steinfurt I – Borken I and is a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), which governs in partnership with the centre-left Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

Spahn was the youngest member of the CDU in the German parliament, having been elected in 2002 at age 22. He has since then served in the 15th, 16th and 17th Bundestags and is one of the main sponsors of pension reform in Germany. He is a member of the Committee of Health of the 17th Bundestag and chair of the working group on health and health policy as well as the spokesman of the CDU/CSU health parliamentary group.

From November 2005, Spahn served as the vice-chair of the CDU/CSU working group on health policy, while at the same time chair of the CDU–CSU parliamentary group in the Committee of Health. He was also a member of the CDU–CSU–SPD coalition working group, which brought about the 2007 health reform. Since 2009, he has been chair of the working group on health and health policy as well as the spokesman of the CDU–CSU parliamentary group on health policy.

In April 2008, Spahn voiced his opposition to grand coalition plans to increase pensions because such a “gift” to the “medium and long-term retirees” would cost a “lot of money”. He particularly criticized the arbitrary intervention of federal labour minister Olaf Scholz in the form of a surprise announcement on pensions formula.

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. In 2003, Spahn began studying political science and law at the University of Hagen. In 2008, he obtained a bachelor’s degree, followed by a master’s degree in the same field in 2017.

Jens Spahn Net Worth

Jens Spahn is one of the richest Politician from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jens Spahn 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Spahn became a member of the Junge Union Deutschlands (JU) in 1995, aged 15. He went on to join the CDU in 1997. He was the chair of the Borken district JU from 1999 to 2006. In 2005, he also took up the chair of the Borken district CDU, which numbers 6,500 members.

Spahn has been a member of the Ahaus City Council since 1999.

Between 2005 and 2013, Spahn served as deputy chair of the German–Dutch Parliamentary Friendship Group. Since 2014, he has been its chair.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Spahn was a substitute member of the Budget Committee. He is part of the “Young Group” of the CDU–CSU parliamentary group. Spahn co-founded a cross- party group of young MPs pushing for the integration of intergeneration equity as a national objective into Germany’s Basic Law.

Facts & Trivia

Jens Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Jens Spahn celebrates birthday on May 16 of every year.

In 2015, Spahn became Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance under minister Wolfgang Schäuble in the third cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel. At the ministry, he oversaw the German government’s annual budget. He was in charge of representing Germany in the negotiations on the annual budget of the European Union.