Andrew Ullmann | |
|---|---|
 Ullmann in 2017 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2017–2025 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Andrew John Ullmann (1963-01-02)2 January 1963 (age 62) |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | FDP |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | University Professor of Infectious Diseases |
Andrew John Ullmann[1] (born 2 January 1963) is a German physician and politician of theFree Democratic Party (FDP) who served as a member of theBundestag from the state ofBavaria from 2017 to 2025.[2]
Born inLos Angeles, Ullmann spent his childhood there until he moved to Germany with his family in 1972. After graduating from high school in 1981 at the Reichenbach-Gymnasium in Ennepetal, Germany, he attended medical school atRuhr University Bochum and graduated in 1987.
During his time as a resident at the University Hospital at St. Josef Hospital in Bochum, Ullmann took part in clinical training at the Spellman Center for HIV-Related Disease at the 250-bedSt Clare's Hospital, the only ward in New York State devoted to the comprehensive treatment ofAIDS at the time.[3] AtHarvard Medical School he participated in an Infectious Diseases combined-fellowship program for two years. In 2008, he became assistant professor (Privatdozent) at the University Medical Center Mainz, Germany, and was appointed full-professor at the University Hospital of Würzburg, Germany, in 2012.
Ullmann joined the FDP in 2003. He became member of the Bundestag in the2017 German federal election.[4] In parliament, he was a member of the Health Committee and the Sub-Committee on Global Health.[5] From 2018 to 2021, he was his parliamentary group'srapporteur ontechnology assessment. From 2022, he chaired the Subcommittee on Global Health, and in May 2022 he was appointed as his parliamentary group’s spokesperson for health.
In addition to his committee assignments, Ullmann was part of the German-American Parliamentary Friendship Group.
In 2020, Ullmann was also elected as a member of the city council inWürzburg.
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD), theGreen Party and the FDP following the2021 federal elections, Ullmann was part of his party's delegation in the working group on health, co-chaired byKatja Pähle,Maria Klein-Schmeink andChristine Aschenberg-Dugnus.[6]
Amid theCOVID-19 pandemic in Germany, Ullmann joined forces with five other parliamentarians –Gyde Jensen,Konstantin Kuhle,Dieter Janecek,Paula Piechotta andKordula Schulz-Asche – on a cross-party initiative to support legislation that would have required all those who have not had yet been vaccinated to receive mandatory counseling to boost vaccination rates, in a second step depending on the immunity levels of the population to activate mandatory vaccination for those older than 50 years of age later that year. The proposal ultimately did not receive the support of the Bundestag.[11][12]
