Stefan Kaufmann (politician)
Stefan Kaufmann ( born August 21, 1969 in Stuttgart ) is a German politician ( CDU).
Life
Kaufmann was born as the youngest of three brothers. His mother was Stenokontoristin, later housewife, his father had authorized officer, but died in 1982. He spent his childhood in Stuttgart- Weilimdorf. After graduation in 1989 at the Solitude -Gymnasium Stuttgart -Weilimdorf Kaufmann did his community service in the Social Service Agency of Württemberg. Then he studied law in Tübingen with a semester abroad in Leiden. He then worked as a research associate at George Turner at the University of Hohenheim. He was a fellow of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and was founded in 2001 by Thomas Oppermann at the Eberhard -Karls- University of Tübingen Dr. jur. doctorate. Kaufmann is an honorary member of the Phi Delta Phi legal honor society.
After he performed the clerkship Service 2000 to 2002 he settled after passing the second state exam in November 2002 down as a lawyer.
Party
Stefan Kaufmann began his political activity initially outside the CDU Stuttgart. So he founded in 1992 in Tübingen the association " Forum for Higher Education and Education Policy Tübingen eV ". This association has set itself the task of developing an educational policy concept that targets especially at the interfaces between the different education stations. As part of its activities in this regard Kaufmann received, among other things, the 1st prize at the " action Genius " of the Ministry of Science of Baden- Württemberg, which was announced by the then Minister for Science, Research and the Arts of Baden -Württemberg Klaus von Trotha.
In the years 1995-1998 was Stefan Kaufmann as assistant to the education policy spokesperson of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Doris Pack (CDU ), active, and later as an assistant and speech writer for the MEP Renate Heinisch ( CDU).
1999 Kaufmann joined the CDU. Between March 2001 and October 2009 was Stefan Kaufmann Group spokesman of the CDU faction in the district council Stuttgart- Sillenbuch, from April 2003 to October 2010 he was Chairman of the CDU district Stuttgart- group Sillenbuch Heumaden Riedenberg.
In November 2005, the CDU Stuttgart elected him a second candidate in the parliamentary constituency Stuttgart I.
In November 2006, Stefan Kaufmann was elected to the CDU district board of directors.
In July 2008, the CDU Stuttgart him nominated for the parliamentary candidates for the parliamentary constituency Stuttgart I. The constituency was previously represented by Jo Krummenacher, who died in February 2008.
In October 2008, Stefan Kaufmann was elected Deputy District Chairman of the CDU Stuttgart. In August 2010, Kaufmann was appointed in this position.
On 20 May 2011 Stefan Kaufmann was elected county chairman of the CDU Stuttgart. The member of parliament won in the first round against the Stuttgart cultural Mayor Susanne Eisenmann.
On 13 July 2012, the CDU Stuttgart Stefan Kaufmann nominated again for her constituency candidate for the federal election of 2013.
In August 2012, he signed a call to 13 CDU member of the Bundestag, where the income tax equality of civil unions is required.
Member of Parliament
2009 won businessman in the national elections before the national chairman of the Green Party Cem Özdemir, the direct mandate in the constituency Stuttgart and I became a member of the German Bundestag. In his campaign Kaufmann sought not only the civic center. As an openly homosexual, he also made advertising in each Stuttgart meeting places and on the local Christopher Street Day. As a devout Catholic at the same time he also criticized the made in July 2007, National Socialism comparison of the SSPX at the Stuttgart CSD.
In the general election in 2013 he was able to defend the direct mandate again against Cem Özdemir and Ute Vogt.
Committee work
Stefan Kaufmann is a member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment. He is also a substitute member of the Committee on Petitions and the Committee on Transport, Building and Urban Development.
In the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment be work focuses in all areas of study funding. This includes in particular the Federal Training Assistance Act ( federal financial aid ) as well as the recently adopted National Scholarship Programme. In addition, this includes the area of saving for education and gifted education. He is also rapporteur for the European education as well as the European research cooperation - and thus for almost all EU projects for which the Bundestag is involved even more than before, since the Treaty of Lisbon. Currently these are for example the strategy document Europe 2020, preparations for the 8th Framework program or the construction of a European nuclear fusion reactor.
Stefan Kaufmann is a substitute member of the Committee on Transport, Building and Urban Development. There he was appointed rapporteur of the Stuttgart 21 project. Furthermore, a merchant engaged for implementation of the North -East by-pass and a cross-connection of the B 10 in the Neckar valley to the A 8 to the Fildern. The development of the Stuttgart airport and the expansion of the commuter rail network are other issues, as pursued merchant.
As a deputy member Kaufmann is a member of the Committee on Petitions. Deputy members work there is usually no petitions to relieve itself of the other members, however, has a merchant processing of petitions relating to the field of education and in particular questions of the study funding and access to higher education, adopted.
Memberships and volunteering
Kaufmann is a member of the European Union Parliamentarians German Bundestag. Stefan Kaufmann is chairman of the state commission business and education of the Economic Council of Baden-Württemberg and chairman of the advisory business of the CDU Stuttgart. In addition, Kaufmann Member of the Board of Trustees Forum Region Stuttgart, the Board of Trustees of the Federal Foundation Magnus Hirschfeld and the Board of Trustees of the German Student Union.
Private
Kaufmann is passionate about classical music and opera as well as ballet and theater. He plays the organ and gave himself teaching. He sang for many years in Solitude Choir and conducted in Tübingen for a time a small chamber orchestra. In 2005 he took over the chairmanship of the Association of the Stuttgart oratorio choir.
Publications
- Stefan Kaufmann: The European University Institute: Florence the " European University " in the structure of European and international law. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2003, 342 pages, ( Tübingen writings on international and European law; 61), ISBN 3-428-10753-5