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Tobias Hans | |
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Minister-President of Saarland | |
In office 1 March 2018 –25 April 2022 | |
Deputy | Anke Rehlinger |
Preceded by | Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer |
Succeeded by | Anke Rehlinger |
Leader of the Christian Democratic Union in the Saarland | |
Assumed office 19 October 2018 | |
General Secretary | Markus Uhl |
Deputy | Michael Adam Daniela Schlegel-Friedrich Nadine Schön Peter Strobel Stephan Toscani |
Preceded by | Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer |
Leader of the Christian Democratic Union in the Landtag of Saarland | |
In office 24 November 2015 –1 March 2018 | |
Preceded by | Klaus Meiser |
Succeeded by | Alexander Funk |
Member of the Landtag of Saarland for Neunkirchen | |
Assumed office 23 September 2009 | |
Preceded by | multi-member district |
Personal details | |
Born | Neunkirchen,Saarland,West Germany | 1 February 1978
Political party | Christian Democratic Union |
Website | www |
Tobias Theodor Hans (born 1 February 1978) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Minister-President of Saarland from 2018 to 2022.
Hans became a member of the Landtag of Saarland after the Saarland state election in 2009. On 24 November 2015,Hans was elected as chairman of the CDU Parliamentary Group in the Landtag of Saarland. [1]
As one of the Saarland's representatives at the Bundesrat,Hans serves on the Committee on Foreign Affairs,the Committee on Defence and the Committee on Cultural Affairs. He is also a member of the German-French Friendship Group set up by the Bundesrat and the French Senate.
Hans was a CDU delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2017 and 2022. [2]
On 1 March 2018,Hans was elected as Minister-President of Saarland by a 40 to 11 vote. He is the youngest serving head of a German state government.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany,Hans co-chaired –alongside Silvia Breher,Hendrik Hoppenstedt,Yvonne Magwas and Paul Ziemiak –the CDU’s first ever digital national convention in 2021. [3]
Ahead of the Christian Democrats’leadership election in 2018,Hans publicly endorsed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to succeed Angela Merkel as the party's chair. [6] For the 2021 national elections,he later supported Markus Söder as the Christian Democrats' joint candidate to succeed Merkel as Chancellor. [7]
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