Hendrik Hoppenstedt | |
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| Minister of State for Bureaucracy Reduction and Federal-State Relations | |
| In office 14 March 2018 – 8 December 2021 | |
| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Preceded by | Helge Braun |
| Succeeded by | Sarah Ryglewski |
| Member of theBundestag forHannover-Land I | |
| Assumed office 22 September 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Caren Marks |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1972-07-14)14 July 1972 (age 53) |
| Political party | Christian Democratic Union (CDU) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | |
Hendrik Hoppenstedt (born 14 June 1972) is a German politician of theChristian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the German parliamentBundestag since 2013, representing theHannover-Land I constituency. Before he got elected in 2013, he was mayor of the city ofBurgwedel in the northern German state ofLower Saxony.
Hoppenstedt attended Gymnasium Großburgwedel andAbingdon School before studying law from 1993 until 1999. During his studies, he completed internships at theBundesrat in Berlin and at theEmbassy of Germany in Washington, D.C.
From 2002 to 2005, Hoppenstedt worked atAllianz.
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 theCDU/CSU parliamentary group'srapporteur 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 withBahrain,Irak,Yemen,Jordan,Qatar,Kuwait,Lebanon,Oman,Saudi Arabia,Syria,United Arab Emirates and thePalestinian territories.
In the negotiations to form acoalition government under the leadership ofChancellorAngela Merkel following the2017 federal elections, Hoppenstedt was part of the working group on urban development, led byBernd Althusmann,Kurt Gribl andNatascha Kohnen. In the formation of Merkel'sfourth cabinet, he was appointedMinister of State for Bureaucracy Reduction and Federal-State Relations at theFederal Chancellery.[1]
Amid theCOVID-19 pandemic in Germany, Hoppenstedt co-chaired – alongsideSilvia Breher,Tobias Hans,Yvonne Magwas andPaul Ziemiak – the CDU's first ever digital national convention in 2021.[2] For the2021 elections, he was elected to lead the CDU campaign in Lower Saxony.[3]
In the negotiations to form aGrand Coalition under the leadership ofFriedrich Merz's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the BavarianCSU) and theSocial Democrats (SPD) following the2025 German elections, Hoppenstedt was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on government reform and cuttingred tape, chaired byPhilipp Amthor,Daniela Ludwig andSonja Eichwede.[4]
In June 2017, Hoppenstedt voted against his parliamentary group's majority and in favor of Germany's introduction ofsame-sex marriage.[5][6]
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