Thorsten Hoffmann

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Thorsten Hoffmann (2013)

Thorsten Hoffmann (born February 5, 1961 in Castrop-Rauxel ) is a German politician ( CDU ) from Dortmund . From January 1, 2015 to September 24, 2017, he was a member of the German Bundestag . At the end of February 2019, he was appointed the first police officer of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia by the state cabinet of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Life and work

In 1980 Thorsten Hoffmann joined the police force . Two years later he passed his specialist examination for the intermediate police force . In 1990 he passed the technical examination for the senior police service at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in Dortmund with a degree in administrative management (FH) . On investigators activities to the police Dortmund followed the secondment to the State Criminal Police Offices of Thuringia and Bavaria . From 1995 to 2014 Thorsten Hoffmann worked again at the Dortmund Police Headquarters. Initially in the manhunt, later among other things as a coordinator between the city ​​administration and the police and as head of the police force . During his time as an investigator, he arrested over 2,000 people. In February 2019 Thorsten Hoffmann was appointed by the Laschet cabinet as police officer of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Political party

Hoffmann joined the CDU in 1999. From 2004 to 2009 he was a member of the Dortmund-Hombruch district council . In 2009 he was directly elected to the Dortmund City Council, of which he is still a volunteer today. In the city council he works in the committees for social affairs, labor and health, as well as in the committee for economic development, employment promotion, Europe, science and research. Thorsten Hoffmann is a member of the Dortmund Integration Council . He has been chairman of the CDU in the Dortmund-Hombruch district since 2011 and of the CDU local union Dortmund-Kirchhörde since 2014.

In the federal election on September 22, 2013 Thorsten Hoffmann ran for a direct mandate in the constituency of Dortmund I (142). With 30.7 percent of the vote, he received the best result ever achieved by a CDU candidate in this constituency. After Ronald Pofalla left parliament on December 31, 2014, Hoffmann moved into the Bundestag on January 1, 2015 via the CDU's state list in North Rhine-Westphalia . In the 2017 federal election , Hoffmann, who only occupied one of the lower places on the CDU's state list, missed the direct election with 28.6 percent of the first votes and was eliminated from the Bundestag.

MP

Hoffmann was a regular member of the Interior Committee in the German Bundestag and a deputy member of the 2nd NSU Investigation Committee and the Petitions Committee . He was a member of the internal working group, the employee group, the local politics working group and the Ruhr area working group .

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 at the end of June 2017 .

At the beginning of 2017, Hoffmann got into the media nationwide because he fell for a fake news report on New Year's Eve in Dortmund. He spread the hoax in a press release.

Web links

Commons : Thorsten Hoffmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cabinet appoints Thorsten Hoffmann as police officer | The state portal Wir in NRW. February 12, 2019, accessed April 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Dortmund commissioner moves into the Bundestag. Image accessed March 2, 2015 .
  3. ↑ NRW Police Commissioner: Cabinet appoints Thorsten Hoffmann. February 12, 2019, accessed August 26, 2019 .
  4. ^ Members of the Dortmund City Council entitled to vote , accessed on December 14, 2015
  5. ^ Members of the Integration Council of the City of Dortmund ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 14, 2015
  6. ^ Homepage of the CDU local union Dortmund-Kirchhörde ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 14, 2015
  7. ↑ Live ticker for the federal election. The West, accessed March 2, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Biography at the German Bundestag. German Bundestag, archived from the original on March 5, 2015 ; accessed on December 14, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Both CDU MPs lose their seats. Nordstadtblogger, accessed on September 26, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Thorsten Hoffmann sits on the Interior Committee. Nordstadtblogger, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 2, 2015 .
  11. ↑ 3. Committee of Inquiry . In: German Bundestag . ( online [accessed December 22, 2016]). 3rd Committee of Inquiry ( Memento from June 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ DW: Marriage for everyone: which MPs voted for and which voted against. In: welt.de . June 30, 2017. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
  13. ↑ How a right-wing Internet portal put Dortmund in a state of emergency. meedia.de, accessed on January 4, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Fake news turns New Year's Eve in Dortmund into a disaster. SWR 3, archived from the original on March 9, 2018 ; accessed on January 6, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Thorsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH 5th February 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Castrop-Rauxel