The Federal Government’s Drug and Addiction Commissioner

The Federal Government’s Drug and Addiction Commissioner (official title: Commissioner of the Federal Government for Drug and Addiction Policy) coordinates the Federal Government’s drug and addiction policy, makes suggestions, takes up recommendations by the scientific community and represents the Government’s drug policy vis-à-vis policy-makers, the press and the public. In addition, he heads the German Delegation to the UN regarding drug policy and holds the German seat in various European Union bodies.

The current Commissioner of the Federal Government for Drug and Addiction Policy is Prof. Dr. Hendrik Streeck.

Prof. Dr. Hendrik Streeck, born on 7 August 1977 in Göttingen, married, was appointed Commissioner of the Federal Government for Drug and Addiction Policy on 28 May 2025.

Streeck has been a member of the German Bundestag since 25 March 2025 (21^st legislative period), representing his parliamentary group as a regular member of the Committee on Health and deputy member of the Committee on Research, Technology, Space and Technology Assessment.

Hendrik Streek is a specialist in microbiology, virology and infectious disease epidemiology and Director of the Institute for Virology at the University Hospital of Bonn. He started his medical career at the Charité in Berlin and completed his doctorate at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn. After a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School, he became Assistant Professor at Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard. In 2012, he was appointed Chief of the Cellular Immunology Section at the U.S. Military HIV Research Program as well as Assistant Professor for Emerging Diseases at the UHS University and Adjunct Faculty at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Hendrik Streeck advises both the Land and Federal Government in various functions. For instance, he was on the Coronavirus Expert Committee of the State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Coronavirus Expert Council of the Federal Government, the Expert Council of the Federal Government on “Health and Resilience” and the North Rhine-Westphalian Enquete Commission on Crisis Communication.

He is a member of the German Medical Association, the German Association of Outpatient Physicians for Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine (dagnä), the Society of Virology (gfv), the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV), the German Society of Infectious Diseases (DGI), the Rotary Club, the Bürger für Beethoven (citizens for Beethoven), the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the German AIDS Foundation. Streek has been awarded the Federal Cross of Merit (First Class).