Frank Henkel

He began an apprenticeship after school, but in 1981 the family moved to West Berlin, after their request for departure was granted.

In West Berlin he completed vocational training as a wholesale and foreign trade merchant in 1984 and worked for two years at the Friedrich Krupp AG.

[1] In May 2005 Henkel also was elected Secretary General of the Berlin CDU, serving under the leadership of successive chairmen Ingo Schmitt and Joachim Zeller.

In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the SPD following the 2013 federal elections, Henkel was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on internal and legal affairs, led by Hans-Peter Friedrich and Thomas Oppermann.

Ahead of the vote, he regularly polled behind his Social Democrat counterpart, incumbent Mayor Michael Müller.

Frank Henkel in 2010