Bernd Hüttemann Explained

Bernd Hüttemann (born December 8, 1970, in Paderborn) has been serving as Secretary-General of the European Movement Germany since 2003. Hüttemann is also a European policy advisor to the German Catholic Bishops' Conference[1] and a lecturer at the Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics at the University of Passau.

Education

Bernd Hüttemann attended the Gymnasium Theodorianum in Paderborn and studied political science, history, and European Law at the University of Bonn.

Career

Since 2003, Hüttemann has been serving as full-time Secretary-General of the European Movement Germany (EBD), a civil society network in Berlin institutionally funded by the German Foreign Office.[2] Simultaneously, he has been an adjunct professor at the University of Passau at the Joan Monnet Chair of European Politics since 2011.[3] Furthermore, from 2015 to 2018, Hüttemann taught regularly at the Berlin School of Economics and Law.

In his previous professional positions, Hüttemann worked as a staff member at the Robert Bosch Stiftung, as a PR consultant, and as a research associate at the Institute for European Politics. From 2000 to 2003, he managed programs of the German Foreign Office on the EU pre-accession of Slovakia and Croatia, among others as an advisor to the Slovak government office in Bratislava.

European politics

Hüttemann initially began his engagement in European politics with the Young European Federalists(JEF). In this context, he served as office manager in Bonn and Brussels, among other positions. Furthermore, from 2003 to 2013, Hüttemann was involved as honorary secretary-general for the Europa-Union Deutschland under Peter Altmaier.[4] Between 2014 and 2020, he was Vice-President of the European Movement International.[5]

In 2010, Bernd Hüttemann was named one of Germany's 160 best young executives under 40 by the business magazine Capital. The German radio station Deutschlandfunk describes him as a full-time lobbyist for the EU. Hüttemann's main areas of expertise include representing European interests, political communication, and coordinating European policy in Germany.[6]

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  1. Web site: . Sonntagabend: Menschen in der Zeit – Bernd Hüttemann. October 19, 2018 . 2022-05-31.
  2. Vgl. zur Aufgabe und Entwicklung der EBD seit 2003, S. 73.
  3. Web site: Zurück auf die Schulbank: EBD-Generalsekretär wird Lehrbeauftragter an der Universität Passau | Netzwerk EBD.
  4. Web site: . Bernd Hüttemann als Generalsekretär verabschiedet. 2011-03-30.
  5. Web site: European Movement International elects new Board and decides political future. 2015-01-31. 2014-12-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20141214155220/http://europeanmovement.eu/press_release/european-movement-international-elects-new-board-and-decides-political-future/. dead.
  6. Vgl. Web site: . Der deutsche Patient im Lazarett Europa: Zur Europa-Koordination und –Kommunikation in Deutschland . October 6, 2005 . 2011-03-30 .