About Me
I am a German physician and politician for SPD and was a member of the Bundestag from 1994 to 2009.
As chair of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Health Committee I co-signed a proposed resolution on 18 December 2009, which was briefly discussed in January 2010 in an emergency debate and I called for an inquiry into alleged undue influence exerted by pharmaceutical companies on the World Health Organization’s global H1N1 flu campaign. My comments on the COVID-19 pandemic drew criticism from
