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Curriculum Vitae
1973: Born, South Vietnam
1992: Joined Free Democrats (FDP)
1992: Joined the Bundeswehr as a medical officer cadet
1993-99: Medical studies in Hanover and Hamburg
1996-2004: Member, later secretary-general, of the FDP's state executive board in Lower Saxony
2001-06: Member of the regional assembly, Hanover
2002: Doctorate, Hanover Medical School
2003-09: Member of state assembly, Lower Saxony, and leader of FDP group in the assembly
2005: Joined FDP's federal executive committee
2006-: Chairman of the FDP, Lower Saxony
2009: Deputy prime minister and minister for economy, labour and transport, Lower Saxony
2009-11: Federal minister of health
2011-: Vice-chancellor of Germany, federal minister of economics and technology, chairman of the FDP
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