Hendrik Hoppenstedt

Hendrik Hoppenstedt (born 14 June 1972) is a German politician. He is a member of the German parliament Bundestag. Before he got elected in 2013, he was mayor of the city of Burgwedel in the northern German state of Lower Saxony.

Hendrik Hoppenstedt
Minister of State for Bureaucracy Reduction and Federal-State Relations
Assumed office
14 March 2018
ChancellorAngela Merkel
Preceded byHelge Braun
Member of the Bundestag
for Hannover-Land I
Assumed office
22 September 2013
Preceded byCaren Marks
Personal details
Born (1972-07-14) 14 July 1972
Großburgwedel, Lower Saxony, West Germany
(now Germany)
CitizenshipGerman
NationalityGermany
Political partyCDU
Children2
Alma mater

Member of the German Bundestag

In his first parliamentary term from 2013 until 2017, Hoppenstedt served as member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection as well as on the Sub-Committee on European Union Law. Within the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection, he was the CDU/CSU parliamentary group's rapporteur on foreign affairs and development policy. In addition, he was an alternate member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and a full member of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with Arabic-Speaking States in the Middle East, which is in charge of maintaining inter-parliamentary relations with Bahrain, Irak, Yemen, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and the Palestinian territories.

In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, Hoppenstedt was part of the working group on urban development, led by Bernd Althusmann, Kurt Gribl and Natascha Kohnen. In the formation of Merkel's fourth cabinet, he was appointed Minister of State for Bureaucracy Reduction and Federal-State Relations at the Federal Chancellery.[1]

Other activities
  • Sparkasse Hannover, Member of the Supervisory Board (since 2011)
  • BHW, Ombudsman (since 2016)

Political positions

In June 2017, Hoppenstedt voted against his parliamentary group's majority and in favor of Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.[2][3]

References
  1. Hendrik Brandt (February 26, 2018), Hendrik Hoppenstedt soll ins Kanzleramt wechseln Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung.
  2. Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, June 30, 2017.
  3. Carsten Wagner (June 30, 2017), "Ehe für alle": Niedersachsen-CDU uneins in Berlin Norddeutscher Rundfunk.


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