Christian Hartmann (politician)

Christian Hartmann (2016)

Christian Hartmann (born April 6, 1974 in Calbe (Saale) ) is a German politician ( CDU ). He has been a member of the Saxon State Parliament since 2009 and chairman of his party's parliamentary group since September 25, 2018.

Life

After leaving school, Hartmann completed an apprenticeship with the Saxon Police in Dresden from 1991 to 1993 . Subsequently he was a specialist teacher or trainer at the Kamenz Police School until 1999 . He then moved to the presidium of the riot police, from 2005 he was on the staff of the 1st riot police department in Dresden. Hartmann has been on leave from active duty since September 2009.

Christian Hartmann is married and of Protestant Lutheran denomination.

politics

Hartmann has been a member of the CDU since 1994. He was a member of the Junge Union from 1999 to 2010 and its district chairman in Dresden from 2000 to 2002. From 2012 to 2016 Hartmann was state chairman of the CDU Saxony's municipal political association . From June 2013 to November 2019 he was district chairman of the CDU Dresden. At the 35th state party congress of the CDU Saxony on November 16, 2019, Hartmann was elected as deputy state chairman.

Since 1999 he has been the mayor of Langebrück . From 2001 to 2009 he was a member of the Dresden City Council. In the 2009 state elections , Hartmann won the direct mandate in the Dresden 5 constituency (constituency 47) with 33.3% of the votes and increased this result to 33.4% in the 2014 state elections . In the 5th electoral term (2009–2014) he was a member of the Interior Committee and the Petitions Committee and from 2013 domestic policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group in the state parliament. In the 6th electoral term he was a member of the parliamentary control commission and chairman of the parliamentary control body , a member of the interior committee and the committee for rules of procedure and immunity matters as well as internal policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group in the state parliament. From 2012 Hartmann was a member of the first Saxon NSU investigative committee "Neo-Nazi terror networks in Saxony" and until 2014 chairman of the CDU parliamentary group. Hartmann was again a member of the second NSU committee.

After Frank Kupfer's resignation , the parliamentary group of the CDU Saxony held a vote for the successor between Hartmann and Geert Mackenroth on September 25, 2018 , in which Hartmann surprisingly prevailed with 32 to 24 votes.

In the state elections in Saxony in 2019 , he was re-elected as constituency member in the Dresden 1 constituency with 28.7 percent of the direct votes. He was confirmed as parliamentary group leader with 100% of the votes on September 3, 2019.

Positions

When asked that he did not reject a coalition with the AfD , Hartmann said in September 2018: "This requires respect for the voters who decide on September 1, 2019." At the same time, the expert on security issues described the AfD as the main political competitor and opponents of the CDU.