Education
Born in Düren, he completed his Abitur at the Stiftisches Gymnasium in Düren before studying medicine at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University between 1972 and 1979.
Born in Düren, he completed his Abitur at the Stiftisches Gymnasium in Düren before studying medicine at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University between 1972 and 1979.
The following year, he became assistant physician at Street 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 (Christian Democratic Union) in 1992 and was elected to the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia (state parliament) in 1995.
Between 2005 and 2009, he was deputy leader of the parliament"s Christian Democratic Union-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.
Henke was re-elected in 2013. Henke is married with four children, and lives in Burtscheid, Aachen.
He was deputy chair of the Christian Democratic Union in the city between 1999 and 2013.
European Union Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag. Committee on Health]
He remained a member of the parliament until 2009, having been twice re-elected, holding positions on the Ausschuss für Arbeit, Gesundheit und Soziales (Work, Health and Social committee) and the Ausschuss für Innovation, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (Innovation, Science, Research and Technology committee). He has been a member of the health committee since his election, becoming deputy leader in 2014.