Background
Kaufmann was born as the youngest of three brothers to a family living in Stuttgart-Weilimdorf. His father, a confidential clerk, died in 1982.
Kaufmann was born as the youngest of three brothers to a family living in Stuttgart-Weilimdorf. His father, a confidential clerk, died in 1982.
He attended university in Tübingen, majoring in Legal science, including a year at Leiden University. Kaufmann had a Konrad Adenauer Foundation scholarship since before he graduated from university and became a Doctor of law in 2001.
He received his Abitur in 1989 at the Solitude-Gymnasium and served during his Zivildienst at the Diakonisches Werk Württemberg. Afterwards, he worked as a scientific assistant at the University of Hohenheim. In 1992, Kaufmann founded the "Forum für Hochschulund Bildungspolitik Tübingen e.V“ (Forum for Hochschuland Education Politics Tübingen eV) in Tübingen.
This association"s task was developing a general concept for educational politics that particularly targeted the contact points between the respective institutions.
Later, he was assistant and speechwriter for Member of the European Parliament Renate Heinisch, also Christian Democratic Union. Kaufmann joined the Christian Democratic Union in 1999. In 2008, the Christian Democratic Union in Stuttgart appointed him candidate for the Bundestag, again in Stuttgart I, after his predecessor on this appointment had died.
In October of the same year he was elected Deputy District Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union in Stuttgart. In his campaign, Kaufmann did not just cater to the bourgeois center.
Being openly gay, he also campaigned in local hotspots of the homosexual scene and on Christopher Street Day.
Phi Delta Phi – Richard von Weizsäcker Inn Tübingen, Honorary Member Kaufmann is openly gay. He enjoys classical music and opera, also ballett and theater. He plays the Organ and gave lessons on the instrument, sang in a choir and directed a small chamber orchestra in Tübingen.
In June 2010, Kaufmann was involved in a planecrash when a historical District of Columbia-3 he was riding in crashlanded shortly after take-official
From 1995 until 1998, Kaufmann was assistant to Doris Pack, Christian Democratic Union, then Speaker in Matters of Educational Politics for the EPP at the European Parliament. Between March 2001 and October 2009, he was a Speaker for the Party in the district advisory council of Stuttgart-Sillenbuch, since April 2003 he has been chairman of the local group of the Christian Democratic Union in "Stuttgart-Sillenbuch-Heumaden-Riedenberg". At the same time being a devoted catholic, he also criticized the comparison with Nazism the Society of Saint Pius X published on the occasion of the Christopher Street Day in 2007.
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He is a member of Phi Delta Phi. In November 2005 he was elected secondary candidate for the Landtag in the Stuttgart I electoral district, and one year later he was elected member of the District Board of the Christian Democratic Union.
Stefan Kaufmann is a member of the Panel of Education, Research and Technological Impact Assessment, as well as deputy member of the Committee on Petitions and the Panel of Traffic, Construction and Urban Development. German National Association for Student Affairs, Member of the Board of Trustees
Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Member of the Board of Trustees.