Background
Bahr was born the son of a policeman in Lahnstein, Rhineland-Palatinate.
Bahr was born the son of a policeman in Lahnstein, Rhineland-Palatinate.
Bahr graduated from Immanuel-Kant High School, Münster, in 1996. He subsequently went on to an apprenticeship as a bank clerk at Dresdner Bank in Schwerin and Hamburg. In the winter of 1998 Bahr began studying economics at the, graduating with a Bachelor of Science (Bachelor of Science) in Economics.
In 2008 he completed another course of study, focussing on international healthcare and hospital management, graduating with a Master of Business Administration (Master of Business Administration).
From May 2011 to December 2013 he was Federal Minister of Health. Bahr joined the Young Liberals (the German short form is "JuLis" from Junge Liberale) at the age of 14 in 1990. From 1994 to 1996 he was chairman of the JuLis in the district of Münster.
In 1999, he was elected national chairman of the JuLis, an office he held until 2004.
On 27 November 2010 he was elected at the state convention of the North Rhine-Westphalian Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party) to the state chairman. On 12 May 2011 he was appointed by the Federal President to become the Federal Minister of Health in Chancellor Angela Merkel"s second government.
His predecessor, Philipp Rösler, moved on to become Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and Vice-Chancellor. On the same day his swearing-in ceremony was held in the German Bundestag.
With the German care home sector facing an acute labor shortage, Bahr proposed relaxing rules for bringing in foreign care workers.
In 2012, Bahr was selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. With the commencement of the Cabinet Merkel III on 17 December 2013 Bahr retired from the federal government. From February to summer 2014, Bahr served as a health care reform advisor for the think tank Center for American Progress.
In addition, he worked as a guest lecturer on health economics at the University of Michigan.
On 29 September 2014, it was announced that Bahr would join the executive board of Allianz.
He is the Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party)"s expert on health politics and was chairman of the party"s youth organization, the Young Liberals, from 1999 to 2004. In 2003, he became chairman of the party"s "Zukunftsforum" (Future Forum) on "Frauen, kinderfreundliches Deutschland, Generationengerechtigkeit" ("Women, Child-friendly Germany, a Generation Fairness"). He was the chairman of the Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party) in the Münsterland district in 2006, and lead the party"s opposition against the grand coalition"s health sector reform.
After joining JuLis in 1990, Bahr became a member of the Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party) in 1992. Bahr became a member of the Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party)"s federal executive board in 2001.
