Overview
- Hoffmann, 50, became head of the CSU Bundestag group on May 5 and now assumes hosting duties previously handled by Alexander Dobrindt for eight years.
- He is scheduled to open the CSU winter meeting at Kloster Seeon on Tuesday at 1 p.m. local time.
- Coverage portrays the meeting as his first major test in the role and an opportunity to build recognition within the party.
- Profiles describe him as an atypical CSU politician who does not fit many of the party’s stereotypes.
- Hoffmann says he feels a “healthy tension” ahead of the gathering’s start.