Career
Before he got elected in 2013, he was mayor of the city of Burgwedel in the northern German state of Lower Saxony. Within the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection, he is the Christian Democratic Union/Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) parliamentary group’s rapporteur on foreign affairs and development policy.
Membership
He is a member of the German parliament 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. 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.
Sparkasse Hannover, Member of the Supervisory Board.