Rudolf Henke is a physician who has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2009. Born in D�ren, he completed his Abitur at the Stiftisches Gymnasium in D�ren before studying medicine at RWTH Aachen University between 1972 and 1979. The following year, he became assistant physician at St Antonius Hospital in Eschweiler, rising to became a consultant in hematology and oncology in September 1988. He has been on the board of directors of the physicians' trade union Marburger Bund since 1989, becoming chair in 2007. He is a German delegate to the World Medical Association. He joined the Christian Democratic Union in 1992 and was elected to the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1995. He remained a member of the parliament until 2009, having been twice re-elected, holding positions on the Ausschuss f�r Arbeit, Gesundheit und Soziales and the Ausschuss f�r Innovation, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie. Between 2005 and 2009, he was deputy leader of the parliament's CDU-group. Henke was directly elected to the Bundestag in the Aachen I constituency in 2009, receiving more votes than incumbent federal health minister Ulla Schmidt in the process. 

June 5th, 1954 in Düren (Age 69)