The Party for Rejuvenation Research (German: Partei für Verjüngungsforschung), formerly the Party for Biomedical Rejuvenation Research (German: Partei für schulmedizinische Verjüngungsforschung) and originally 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 Rejuvenation Research Partei für Verjüngungsforschung | |
|---|---|
 Logo since 2024 | |
| Leader | Felix Werth |
| Vice-Leader | Nicolai Kilian, Karl-Friedrich Harter |
| Federal Treasurer | Andrea Beyerlein |
| Founded | 2015 |
| Headquarters | Berlin |
| Membership | 321[1] |
| Ideology | Single-issue politics |
| Colours | Black White Green Red |
| Bundestag | 0 / 630 |
| State Parliaments | 0 / 1,855 |
| Website | |
| verjuengungsforschung | |
Political positions
editThe Party for 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]
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
edit
The incumbent party leader is biochemist Felix Werth from Berlin.[3]
As of July 2022, the party has regional branches in all 16 German states.[4]
Renaming
editThe 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.[5]
On 11 October 2024, the party was renamed again to Party for Rejuvenation Research.[6]
Elections
editAs 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:
- 2016 Berlin state election:[7] 0.5%
- 2017 North Rhine-Westphalia state election: 0.1%
- 2017 German federal election: 0.1%
- 2018 Bavarian state election: 0.1%
- 2018 Hessian state election: 0.1%
- 2019 European Parliament election: 0.2%
- 2019 Saxony state election: 0.5%
- 2019 Thuringian state election: 0.5%
- 2020 Hamburg state election: 0.2%
- 2021 Baden-Württemberg state election: 0.0%; candidacy only in the electoral constituencies Stuttgart IV (0.4%)[8] and Ulm (0.4%)[9]
- 2021 German federal election: 0.1%
- 2021 Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state election: 0.2%
- 2021 Berlin state election: 0.3%
- 2022 Saarland state election: 0.1%
- 2022 Schleswig-Holstein state election: 0.1%
- 2022 North Rhine-Westphalia state election: 0.1%
Election results
editEuropean Parliament
edit| Election | List leader | Votes | % | Seats | /– | EP Group |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Felix Werth | 70,869 | 0.19 (#23) | 0 / 96
|
New | – |
| 2024 | 18,935 | 0.05 (#32) | 0 / 96
|
 0
|
Literature
edit- 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
editReferences
edit- ^ "Häufig gestellte Fragen". Partei für schulmedizinische Verjüngungsforschung. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
- ^ a b "Programme of the Party for Rejuvenation Research". Partei für Verjüngungsforschung. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
- ^ Kleine Parteien vor der Berlin-Wahl taz 2016
- ^ "Landesverbände". Partei für Verjüngungsforschung (in German). Retrieved 13 November 2024.
- ^ "Election program for the Berlin state election on 12 February 2023". Partei für Verjüngungsforschung. Retrieved 13 November 2024.
- ^ "Parteiname". Partei für Verjüngungsforschung (in German). Retrieved 13 November 2024.
- ^ "Diese 21 Parteien sind zur Abgeordnetenhauswahl zugelassen". RBB-online.de (in German). Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ "Landtagswahl 2021 - Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg".
- ^ "Landtagswahl 2021 - Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg".