Karl Addicks
Karl Addicks ( born December 31, 1950 in Amberg ) is a German politician (FDP / DPS ). He was from 2004 to 2009 Member of the German Bundestag.
Life and career
After graduating from high school in 1969 in Kleve Addicks first studied biology and chemistry, and then medicine at the University of Saarland and the University of Hamburg. In 1979 he passed the state examination. From 1979 he worked as a doctor in the clinical basic subjects in public hospitals in Hamburg (UKE, AKB, AK St. Georg ) and Saarland. Addicks is a specialist in general medicine and tropical medicine. In 1981 he was nine months a ship's doctor on a sailing ship ( Atlantic crossing ), 1982/83 he traveled to nine months Southeast Asia and so got first impressions of developing countries. From 1987 to 1997 he worked as a construction site physician at the dam, pipeline, airport and other infrastructure projects in Nigeria, working in Iraq and the People's Republic of China; thus he got a deep insight into the problems of developing countries. In 1994 he received his doctorate at the RWTH Aachen University with the thesis Epidemiological investigation of children in Greece over the burden of arsenic, lead and mercury to Dr. med. From 1997 to 1999 he was medical director of a hospital project in Ifrane (Morocco ). From 2000 to 2002 he worked in the phone consulting travel medicine and was settled in private practice. From 2002 to 2003 he was director of a development aid project of the German Society for Technical Cooperation ( GTZ) in Marrakech.
Karl Addicks lives in Saarbrücken; He is married and father of three sons.
Party
Since 1989 he is a member of the FDP. From 2000 to 2009 he was a member of the board of the FDP District Association Saarbrücken City and was co-opted member of the executive committee. Since 2012, he serves on the board of the OV Saarbrücken St John's North.
Member of Parliament
On 1 November 2004 Addicks moved according to the German Bundestag for the retiring MPs, Christoph Hartmann. Here he became chairman of the FDP in the Petitions Committee and substitute member of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development. He was elected as a top candidate for the FDP Saar again in the German Bundestag in 2005. He has since been spokesman of the FDP parliamentary group on development cooperation. Karl Addicks is always drawn on a state list of the Saarland in the Bundestag. His home constituency is Saarbrücken. Although Addicks ran 6 December 2008 again as the leading candidate for the FDP Saar to the upcoming parliamentary elections in 2009, but this was subject to the Chairman of the Young Liberals Saar, Oliver Luksic.
Addicks is mainly engaged in the health problems of developing countries, above all in the area of malaria, AIDS, tuberculosis and tropical diseases of poverty and basic questions of development policy.