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Biography
Hendrik Hoppenstedt (born 14 June 1972) is a German politician. He is a member of the German parliament Bundestag. Before he got elected in 2013, he was mayor of the city of Burgwedel in the northern German state of Lower Saxony.
Member of the German Bundestag
In the current parliamentary term, Hoppenstedt serves 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 is the CDU/CSU parliamentary group’s rapporteur on foreign affairs and development policy. In addition, he is 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 with Bahrain, Irak, Yemen, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and the Palestinian territories.
Other activities
- Sparkasse Hannover, Member of the Supervisory Board (since 2011)
- BHW, Ombudsman (since 2016)