Party for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research

The Party for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research (German: Partei für schulmedizinische Verjüngungsforschung), formerly the Party for Health Research (German: Partei für Gesundheitsforschung), is a single-issue political party in Germany that seeks to accelerate the development of medicine to reverse the aging process.

Party for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research
Partei für schulmedizinische Verjüngungsforschung
LeaderFelix Werth
Vice-LeaderNicolai Kilian, Karl-Friedrich Harter
Federal TreasurerAndrea Beyerlein
Founded2015
HeadquartersBerlin
Membership321[1]
IdeologySingle-issue politics
Colours  Black
  White
Bundestag
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State Parliaments
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Website
verjuengungsforschung.de

Political positions

The Party for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research is a single-issue political party in Germany founded in 2015 with the goal of accelerating the development of regenerative medicine against aging, enabling people to live indefinitely long healthy lives. According to the party, their purpose is to prevent the suffering caused by age-related disease and death. Besides that, the party also highlights the economic benefit of curing aging, as the costs for age-related illness and care would be eliminated.[2]

2023 election poster in Berlin reading: "Where do you want to live in 800 years?"

The party seeks to increase the number and size of pertinent research facilities, and to expand education and training of professionals in those fields.[2] The party also strives to raise public interest in rejuvenation research in order to cause large established parties to focus more on this subject.

The party adopts a neutral position on subjects that do not immediately pertain to rejuvenation research.

Organization

The incumbent party leader is biochemist Felix Werth from Berlin.

As of July 2022, the party has regional branches in all 16 German states.[3]

Renaming

The party has carried the name Party for Health Research since its founding in 2015, but changed its name to Party for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research on 27 November 2022.[4]

Elections

As of 30 March 2021, the party has participated in eight state elections as well in the 2017 German federal election and the 2019 European Parliament election, achieving the following results:

Literature

  • Anne Küppers: Partei für Gesundheitsforschung (Gesundheitsforschung). In: Frank Decker, Viola Neu (publisher): Handbuch der deutschen Parteien. 3rd edition, Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-17995-3, p. 440–441.

See also

References

  1. "Häufig gestellte Fragen". Partei für schulmedizinische Verjüngungsforschung. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  2. "Program of the Party for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research". Partei für schulmedizinische Verjüngungsforschung (in German). Retrieved 13 January 2023.
  3. "Landesverbände". Partei für schulmedizinische Verjüngungsforschung (in German). Retrieved 13 January 2023.
  4. "Election program for the Berlin state election on 12 February 2023". Partei für schulmedizinische Verjüngungsforschung (in German). Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  5. "Diese 21 Parteien sind zur Abgeordnetenhauswahl zugelassen". RBB-online.de (in German). Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  6. "Landtagswahl 2021 - Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg".
  7. "Landtagswahl 2021 - Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg".
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