Michael Kaufmann(XIII)
1980 to 1983 apprenticeship as gas and heat network fitter with A-levels at Energiekombinat Gera; 1983 to 1985 heat network fitter at Heizkraftwerk Süd in Gera, basic military service; 1985 to 1990 study of power engineering at the Technical University (TU) Bergakademie Freiberg/Saxony.
1990 to 1991 research associate at the Technical University (TU) Bergakademie Freiberg/Saxony; 1991 to 1996 development engineer at Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG, Cologne; 1997 to 1999 shareholder and managing director of SiliTec Ingenieurgesellschaft für Silicattechnik mbH, Freiberg/Saxony; 1999 to 2000 scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for a research stay in the USA; 2000 to 2010 research associate at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); 2002 Ph. Ing. at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); 2010 Habilitation at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); since 2010 Professor for the teaching area "Measurement, Control and Automatic Control" at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena (EAH).
2013 Co-founder of the Alternative for Germany and the Thuringia state association of the AfD various functions on the Thuringia state executive committee and in the Gera-Jena-Saale-Holzland district association of the AfD; since 2019 Member of the Thuringia state parliament Spokesman of the AfD parliamentary group for energy, science and digitization; since 2020 Vice President of the Thuringia state parliament.
Member of the German Bundestag since 2021.
1990 to 1991 research associate at the Technical University (TU) Bergakademie Freiberg/Saxony; 1991 to 1996 development engineer at Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG, Cologne; 1997 to 1999 shareholder and managing director of SiliTec Ingenieurgesellschaft für Silicattechnik mbH, Freiberg/Saxony; 1999 to 2000 scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for a research stay in the USA; 2000 to 2010 research associate at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); 2002 Ph. Ing. at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); 2010 Habilitation at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); since 2010 Professor for the teaching area "Measurement, Control and Automatic Control" at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena (EAH).
2013 Co-founder of the Alternative for Germany and the Thuringia state association of the AfD various functions on the Thuringia state executive committee and in the Gera-Jena-Saale-Holzland district association of the AfD; since 2019 Member of the Thuringia state parliament Spokesman of the AfD parliamentary group for energy, science and digitization; since 2020 Vice President of the Thuringia state parliament.
Member of the German Bundestag since 2021.