Frank Heinrich

Frank Heinrich

Frank Heinrich (born January 25, 1964 in Siegen) is a German theologian, social pedagogue and politician (CDU).

Background and education

Frank Heinrich was born in Siegen. At the age of three he moved to the southern part of Germany together with his family where his parents managed a retirement home. After a civil service he spent a year abroad in Canada as a divinity student. When he returned he finished his studies of social education and became a member of the Salvation Army in Freiburg im Breisgau. Until 1995 he was head of the social missionary service (Die Insel and Die Spinnwebe) as social worker. In 1997 Frank Heinrich was fully ordained as a Salvation Army Officer. Together with his wife he was leading the Salvation Army in Chemnitz between 1997 and 2009. Frank Heinrich is married since 1987 and father of four children.

Political career

Frank Heinrich became a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in 2007. In the parliamentary elections in the years 2009 and 2013 he secured the direct mandate for the constituency Chemnitz. Since November 2009 Frank Heinrich has been chairman of the CDU county chapter in Chemnitz.^[1] In the German Bundestag Heinrich is a member of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group and the deputy speaker of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the committee of Human Rights and humanitarian aid. Furthermore he is a deputy member of the committee on economic cooperation and development.^[2]

The political work of Frank Heinrich focusses on his constituency Chemnitz with an emphasis on economic collaborations with Africa, infrastructure, social equality, families, children’s rights and Chemnitz as a location for research and scientific development. Moreover his working spectrum includes Africa, religious freedom and development cooperation at eye level. As one of only a few members of the CDU, Frank Heinrich voted against the lifetime extension of nuclear power plans.^[3] In October 2010. Since summer 2012 Heinrich has been involved, together with 12 other CDU colleagues in the strengthening of tax equality of same-sex partnerships within the law on civil partnership. For establishing economic collaborations between Chemnitz and African countries, Heinrich and the Chamber of industry and commerce Chemnitz initiated the network conference “Business trifft Afrika” (”Business meets Africa”). Starting in 2014 it became an annual event.^[4]

Publications

• Frank Heinrich; Uwe Heimowski (2016) (in German), Der verdrängte Skandal - Menschenhandel in Deutschland, Moers: Brendow Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86506-894-1 
• Frank Heinrich; Uwe Heimowski (2016) (in German), Ich lebe! Ein Plädoyer für die Würde des Menschen, Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 978-3-7615-6301-4 
• Frank Heinrich; Uwe Heimowski (2013) (in German), Mission: Verantwortung. Von der Heilsarmee in den Bundestag, Schwarzenfeld: Neufeld Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86256-039-4 
• Frank Heinrich (2009) (in German), Lieben, was das Zeug hält: Wie Gott unser Herz verändert, Schwarzenfeld: Neufeld Verlag, ISBN 978-3-937896-83-0 

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Frank Heinrich.

• Literature by and about Frank Heinrich in the German National Library catalogue
• Biography at the website of the German Bundestag
• The official website of Frank Heinrich