Christoph Hoffmann | |
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| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2017–2025 | |
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| Born | (1957-12-09)9 December 1957 (age 67) |
| Political party | FDP |
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| Occupation | Forest scientists |
Christoph Hoffmann (born 9 December 1957) is a German politician of theFree Democratic Party (FDP) who served as a member of theBundestag from the state ofBaden-Württemberg from 2017 to 2025.[1]
Hoffmann studied forestry sciences at theUniversity of Freiburg after graduating from high school in 1977. He graduated with a diploma in forestry in 1983, and then completed his preparatory service for a forestry career with the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1985. After completing his doctoral studies in forest genetics at theUniversity of California, Berkeley, Hoffmann was awarded his doctorate at theUniversity of Göttingen in 1994.
From 1995 until 1997, Hoffmann worked forGIZ inIvory Coast. He was subsequently employed in various projects and positions in the Baden-Württemberg forest administration.
In 2007, Hoffmann was elected mayor of the community of Bad Bellingen in the Markgräflerland region and re-elected in 2015.[2]
Hoffmann became member of the Bundestag in the2017 German federal election. In parliament, he was a member of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development and the Parliamentary Advisory Board on Sustainable Development. He served as his parliamentary group’s spokesperson on development policy.[3]
In addition to his committee assignments, Hoffmann was part of the German-Ukrainian Parliamentary Friendship Group and the German Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the Western African States. He was also a substitute member of the German delegation to theParliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) from 2018 to 2025, where he served on the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development.[4] From 2022, he was a member of the German delegation to theFranco-German Parliamentary Assembly.[5]
In July 2024, Hoffmann announced that he would not stand in the2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[6]
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