Janosch Dahmen | |
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 Dahmen in 2020 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 12 November 2020 | |
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| Born | (1981-09-06)6 September 1981 (age 44) |
| Political party | Greens |
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Janosch Dahmen (born 6 September 1981) is a German physician and politician ofAlliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of theBundestag since 2020, representing theHagen – Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis I district.[1]
Born inBerlin, Dahmen first studiedpolitical science atUniversity of Innsbruck for a year before moving to medicine.
From 2018 until 2020, Dahmen worked as medical director of theBerlin Fire Brigade.[2]
Dahmen joined Alliance 90/The Greens in 1998. From 2010 until 2018, he was part of the party's leadership in North Rhine-Westphalia, under co-chairsSven Lehmann and Mona Neubaur.
Dahmen became a member of the Bundestag in 2020 when he replacedKatja Dörner who had resigned.[3] In parliament, he has since been serving on the Committee on Health.[4] Since 2021 he has been his parliamentary group's spokesperson on health policy. He is also the group'srapporteur ondigital health.[5]
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and theFree Democratic Party (FDP) following the2021 German elections, Dahmen 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, Dahmen joined forces with six other parliamentarians –Dirk Wiese,Heike Baehrens,Dagmar Schmidt,Till Steffen,Katrin Helling-Plahr andMarie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann – on a cross-party initiative in 2022 to support legislation that would have required all adults to be vaccinated.[8][9]
Dahmen is married and has three children. The family lives in Berlin'sKreuzberg district.[10]
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