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Jan van Aken
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01 May 1961 (64 years)
Reinbek, Germany
Biography
Jan Paul van Aken is a German politician (Die Linke). With a doctorate in biology, he worked as an activist against biological weapons, served as a biological weapons inspector for the UN from 2004 to 2006, and was a member of the German Bundestag from 2009 to 2017 and again from 2025. In 2016, he published the so-called TTIPleaks documents as a whistleblower. Since October 2024, he has been federal chairman of the Left Party together with Ines Schwerdtner. Together with Heidi Reichinnek, he ran...
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