Florian Hahn Explained

Florian Hahn
Office:Deputy General Secretary of the Christian Social Union
Term Start:January 2019
Term End:February 2022
Leader:Markus Söder
Predecessor:Daniela Ludwig
Successor:Tanja Schorer-Dremel
Office1:Member of the Bundestag
for Bavaria
Constituency1:Munich Land
Term Start1:27 October 2009
Predecessor1:Georg Fahrenschon
Birth Date:1974 3, df=yes
Birth Place:Munich, West Germany
Party:CSU
Citizenship:German

Florian Hahn (born 14 March 1974) is a German politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2009.

Early career

From 2006 until 2009, Hahn worked on public relations at defence company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) in Munich.

Political career

Hahn joined the Young Union (JU) in 1989.

Hahn first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2009 German federal election.[1] He is a member of the Committee on European Union Affairs and the Defence Committee.[2] [3]

In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats (SPD) following the 2013 federal elections, Rachel Hahn was a part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on education and research policy, led by Johanna Wanka and Doris Ahnen. In similar negotiations following the 2017 federal elections, he was part of the working group on European affairs, led by Peter Altmaier, Alexander Dobrindt and Achim Post. He has been the CDU/CSU's parliamentary group's spokesperson on European affairs (2018-2021) and defense (since 2021).[4]

Since 2019, Hahn has been serving as Deputy Secretary General of the CSU, under the leadership of chairman Markus Söder. That year, he co-chaired the CSU’s convention in Munich, alongside Markus Blume and Thomas Silberhorn.[5]

Other activities

Corporate boards

Non-profit organizations

Political positions

In June 2017, Hahn voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.[11]

In a joint letter initiated by Norbert Röttgen and Anthony Gonzalez ahead of the 47th G7 summit in 2021, Hahn joined some 70 legislators from Europe, the US and Japan in calling upon their leaders to take a tough stance on China and to "avoid becoming dependent" on the country for technology including artificial intelligence and 5G.[12]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Florian Hahn. CDU/CSU-Fraktion. 2020-03-23.
  2. Web site: German Bundestag - Committee on European Union Affairs. German Bundestag. en. 2020-03-23.
  3. Web site: German Bundestag - Defence. German Bundestag. en. 2020-03-23.
  4. Stefan Galler (14 December 2021), Hahn ist neuer verteidigungspolitischer Sprecher der Union Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  5. Wolfgang Wittl (30 October 2019), CSU: Ein missratener Parteitag Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  6. https://www.europaeische-akademie.de/team.html Board of Trustees
  7. https://www.baks.bund.de/de/die-baks/der-beirat Advisory Board
  8. http://iep-berlin.de/blog/team/filter/versammlung-der-kuratoren/ Board of Trustees
  9. https://www.mpe.mpg.de/576324/Gremien Board of Trustees
  10. https://www.munich-aerospace.de/en/organisation/panels Board of Trustees
  11. https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article166099805/Diese-Unionsabgeordneten-stimmten-fuer-die-Ehe-fuer-alle.html Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle
  12. Stuart Lau (January 25, 2021), G7 lawmakers tell leaders to ‘stand up’ to China Politico Europe.