Mark Lars Carsten Hauptmann is a German politician and member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany and since 2013 member of the 18th.
Education
After receiving his Senior Highschool Degree in 2003 in the city of Suhl, Hauptmann studied political science, business communication, economic and social history at Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena (FSU), Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan, and Yale University in New Haven, United States of America.
Career
During his studies he was granted scholarships by the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation and the Japan Student Service Organization. Following his graduation in 2009, Hauptmann started working as head of office and parliamentary assistant to Christian Hirte, Member of Parliament (Christian Democratic Union) at the in Berlin. Additionally, he became a visiting lecturer to the University of Erfurt (2010) and also to the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena (2011), where he was teaching political science.
Hauptmann worked at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, for the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation in Beijing, China, as well as the Thuringia"s Ministry of State Transportation, Construction & Economic Development.
With Kairos Communication he also started his own business. In 1999 Hauptmann joined the youth organization of the Christian Democratic Union, the Junge Union Deutschland (JU).
There, he chaired the JU Suhl and served as deputy chair of JU"s regional group for the Rhön-Rennsteig area, among others He was chairman of the permanent workshop on European and International Affairs.
On federal level, he represented JU Thuringia until 2012.
Joining the Christian Democratic Union in 2003, Hauptmann soon got elected to the board of the Christian Democratic Union in Suhl and joined the Christian Democratic Union Thuringia" state committee on European Affairs. During the elections of the European Parliament in 2009, Hauptmann ran for a seat in Brussels as participant of the Christian Democratic Union"s state list for Thuringia. In 2013, he was unanimously elected Christian Democratic Union direct candidate for the constituency 197 (Suhl - Schmalkalden-Meiningen - Hildburghausen) for the German Federal elections in the same year.
Membership
Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy. Subcommittee on Regional Economic Policy]
In October 2013, he was elected member of the 18th In 2005, he was elected a board member of Junge Union in the State of Thuringia. Since then, he became a member of the federal board of the "Junge Union Germany" and was appointed chairman of JU"s International Commission on Foreign, European and Security Affairs until 2014.
Mark Hauptmann is a member of committee on Economic Affairs and Energy as well as member of the subcommittee on Regional Economic Policy and Enterprise resource planning Economic Plans.
He is furthermore a deputy member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Parliamentary Assembly as well as member of the subcommittee on Civil Crisis Prevention, Conflict Management, and Coordinated Response. Mark Hauptmann is a member of the debate society Jena.