Dr. Stefan Kaufmann

Dr. Stefan Kaufmann, who was born in 1969, served as Innovation Commissioner for Green
Hydrogen at the German Ministry of Education and Research from June 2020 to July 2022.
The position was created by the German Cabinet on June 10, 2020, as part of its national
hydrogen strategy. In this position, he was a regular guest at the State Secretaries' Committee
for Hydrogen of the Participating Ministries as well as the National Hydrogen Council.
Since August 2022 Dr Kaufmann is working as a Senior Adviser. In one of his mandates he
was Hydrogen Executive Adviser to the thyssenkrupp board regarding all cross-business
hydrogen activities and projects and represent the company nationally and internationally in
all matters related to hydrogen. Other companies he is working for are the global management
consultancies Horvath and Drees & Sommer, the Canadian hydrogen production company
World Energy GH2 and the German Startup Turn2X.
Prior to his appointment as Innovation Commissioner for Green Hydrogen, the fully qualified
lawyer served as chair of the Study Commission 'Vocational Training in the Digital Work
Environment' and CDU/CSU spokesperson on the Committee on Education, Research and
Technology Assessment of the German Bundestag. Dr Kaufmann has been a directly elected
Member of the Bundestag for his Stuttgart constituency from 2009 to 2021. He has been back
in the Bundestag from January 2024 to March 2025 - as the successor to the late Dr Wolfgang
Schaeuble.