Jan_van_Aken_(politician)
Jan van Aken (politician)
German politician and biologist
Jan Paul van Aken (born 1 May 1961) is a German biologist and a politician (The Left Party).[1] He was member of German Bundestag from 2009 to 2017.
He is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in the German Bundestag. Jan van Aken entered the 17th Bundestag in 2009 after he was listed on the Left electoral lists in Hamburg.[1] From 2009 until 2011 Jan van Aken was the deputy chairperson for the parliamentary faction of the Left.