Mark Hauptmann

Mark Hauptmann in the German Bundestag

Mark Lars Carsten Hauptmann (born April 29, 1984 in Weimar ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and political scientist. He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2013 .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Suhl in 2003 , Hauptmann began studying political science , intercultural business communication and economic and social history at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , the Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka , Japan , and the Yale University in New Haven , USA . During his studies he received a scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Japan Student Service Organization .

The political scientist then worked in the 16th and 17th legislative periods as office manager and research assistant for Christian Hirte , Member of the Bundestag (CDU) in the German Bundestag in Berlin . Since 2010 he has been a lecturer at the University of Erfurt and the University of Jena and has given courses in the field of political science.

Hauptmann worked in the European Parliament in Brussels , for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Beijing , China and in the Thuringian Ministry of Building, Regional Development and Transport . He founded the communications company Kairos Communication .

Mark Hauptmann is single and of Protestant denomination.

Hauptmann has been a member of the German Bundestag since October 2013.

Political career

Mark Hauptmann became a member of the Junge Union (JU) in 1999 and was active there, among other things, as local chairman in Suhl and as deputy district chairman of the Junge Union Rhön-Rennsteig. Since 2005 he has been a member of the state board of the JU Thuringia. He headed the working group Europe and International Affairs and represented the JU Thuringia as a German Council until 2012 at the federal level . From 2012 to 2014 he was chairman of the international commission for foreign, European and security policy and member of the federal board of the Junge Union.

He has been a member of the CDU since 2003 and was involved in the district executive committee of the CDU Suhl as well as in the state committee for Europe at state level. Since 2014 he has been a member of the Federal Committee on Foreign, Security, Development and Human Rights Policy of the CDU in Germany.

He is one of the 75 Union MPs - 68 from the CDU (26.9% of all CDU MPs) and 7 from the CSU (12.5% ​​of all CSU MPs) - who voted for same-sex marriage in July 2017 .

Candidacies and political offices

In the European elections in Germany in 2009 , Hauptmann ran on the list of the CDU Thuringia .

For the general election in 2013 , he was unanimously as CDU candidate for the general election in the constituency 197 (Suhl - Schmalkalden-Meiningen - Hildburghausen ) selected . and won the constituency with 42.0% of the vote. In the 18th German Bundestag he was a full member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy and a deputy member of the Foreign Affairs Committee .

In 2014, Hauptmann was also elected to the city council of Suhl. In November 2016 he took over the chairmanship of the CDU district association Suhl.

In the 2017 federal election , Hauptmann was able to move into the 19th German Bundestag as a direct candidate for the now restructured Suhl - Schmalkalden-Meiningen - Hildburghausen - Sonneberg constituency with 33.6 percent of the vote .

In the 19th German Bundestag , Hauptmann is a full member of the Committee for Economic Affairs and Energy . He is also a deputy member of the Health Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee .

In February 2018, Hauptmann was elected as the new chairman of the young group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag (The young group includes all Union MPs who are younger than 35 at the beginning of a legislative period (on the day of the election).) .

Awards

Mark Hauptmann is a member of the Jena Debating Society and was German champion in 2006 and German runner-up in university debating in 2007 .

Web links

Commons : Mark Hauptmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mark Hauptmann's website
• Biography at the German Bundestag
• CV at the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
• Mark Hauptmann on parliamentwatch.de
• Information that is required to be published on bundestag.de
• Courage to Grexit!

Individual evidence

1. ^ Japan Student Services Organization
2. ^ Website of the China office (Beijing / Shanghai) of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
3. ^ Kairos Communication
4. ^ Junge Union Rhön-Rennsteig: http://www.ju-rhoen-rennsteig.de/ .
5. ↑ State Board of JU Thuringia: Archived copy ( memento of the original from December 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
6. ↑ Mark Hauptmann is the new chairman of the Int. Commission of the JU Germany. (No longer available online.) Ju-thueringen.de, December 15, 2012, archived from the original on December 24, 2015 ; Retrieved February 17, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ CDU Suhl: http://www.cdu-suhl.de/ .
8. ↑ State Committee Europe: http://www.cdu-thueringen.de/inhalte/1013120/landesfachausschuesse/index.html .
9. ↑ DW: Marriage for everyone: which MPs voted for and which voted against. In: welt.de . June 30, 2017. Retrieved October 7, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Hauptmann nominated as a direct candidate for the CDU. insuedthueringen.de, January 12, 2013, accessed on February 17, 2013 . 
11. ↑ Mark Hauptmann nominated for the 2013 federal election. cdu-suhl.de, January 11, 2013, accessed on February 17, 2013 . 
12. ↑ Homepage ( Memento of the original from February 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved June 15, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Jena Master of Debate. jenakompakt.de, June 20, 2006, accessed on February 17, 2013 . 
15. ^ Debating Society Jena e. V. becomes German runner-up. uni-jena.de, June 11, 2007, accessed on February 17, 2013 .