Franziska Hoppermann
Franziska Christina Brigitte Hoppermann is a German civil servant and politician of the Christian Democratic Union who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since the 2021 elections, representing the Hamburg-Wandsbek district.
Political career
Career in state politics
Ahead of the 2020 state elections, CDU candidate Marcus Weinberg included Hoppermann in his shadow cabinet for the party's campaign to unseat First Mayor of Hamburg Peter Tschentscher.Member of the German Parliament, 2021–present
Hoppermann became a member of the German Bundestag in the 2021 national elections, representing the Hamburg-Wandsbek district.In parliament, Hoppermann has since been serving on the Committee on Digital Affairs and the Budget Committee's Subcommittee on European Affairs. Following the 2025 elections, she also joined the Budget Committee, where she has been serving as her parliamentary group's rapporteur on the annual budget of the Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation. Since 2025, she has been chairing a parliamentary inquiry looking into the policy decisions made to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.
Ahead of the Christian Democrats' leadership election in 2022, Hoppermann publicly endorsed Norbert Röttgen to succeed Armin Laschet as the party's chair and joined his campaign team.
In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition under the leadership of Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats following the 2025 German elections, Hoppermann was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on government reform and cutting red tape, chaired by Philipp Amthor, Daniela Ludwig and Sonja Eichwede.