Wolfgang Albers

Wolfgang Albers ( born August 2, 1950 in Essen) is a German politician of the Left Party and deputy in the Berlin House of Representatives.

Life and career

After graduation in 1970 Wolfgang Albers began in 1974, first in Marburg with the study of medicine, which he then continued at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and there in 1980 graduated with state exams and graduation.

In 1981 he began his training as a surgeon at the Humboldt - Hospital in Berlin -Reinickendorf. During this training attending, even half a year in cardiac surgery at the German Heart Institute Berlin. In 1990 he received recognition as " Surgery " and subsequently worked as a senior physician in general and vascular surgery at the Humboldt Hospital on. In 2000, Albers was first elected to the Staff of the Humboldt Hospital. After the merger of all nine former public hospitals of Berlin to Hospital Group Vivantes he is also a member of the Group Works Council. From 2002 to May 2008, he also sat as an elected delegate to the Berlin Chamber of Physicians.

Policy

In June 2005 he joined the WASG, in May 2006, he was also a member of the Left Party. In June 2007, the Left Party renamed itself the Left. Since July 2007 he has been deputy chairman of the Left Party in Berlin. In September 2006 he became a member of the Berlin House of Representatives. He is a member of the Committee on Health, Environment and Consumer Protection, and since January 2012 its chairman. He is also a member of the Committee on Science and Research, where he was Deputy Chairman until January 2012. He is a member of the Group Management Board and health and science policy spokesman of his group since 2006. The House of Representatives elections in September 2011, he took for his party in the direct mandate constituency Lichtenberg 2