Early years Gentzel was born in
Thuringia, which was then in the
German Democratic Republic (East Germany). His father was a building engineer and his mother was a nurse. Between 1989 and 1990 he represented the party as a member of the "Round table against Abuse of Office and Corruption in the
Eisenach district" (
"Runden Tisch gegen Amtsmissbrauch und Korruption im Landkreis Eisenach"). ==References==