Tobias 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.

Political career

Hans became a member of the

Landtag of Saarland The Landtag of the Saarland is the state diet of the German federal state of Saarland. It convenes in Saarbrücken and currently consists of 51 members of five parties. The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) is the largest party in the Lan ...

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. 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

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. Hans was a CDU delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the

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and

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. 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

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, Hans co-chaired – alongside Silvia Breher, Hendrik Hoppenstedt,

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and Paul Ziemiak – the CDU’s first ever digital national convention in 2021.

Other activities

* Cultural Foundation of the German States (KdL), chairman of the council *

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, ex officio member of the board of trustees * RAG-Stiftung, ex officio member of the board of trustees (since 2018)

Political positions

Ahead of the Christian Democrats’

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in 2018, Hans publicly endorsed

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to succeed

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as the party's chair. For the 2021 national elections, he later supported

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as the Christian Democrats' joint candidate to succeed Merkel as Chancellor.Second CDU premier drops support for Laschet's German chancellery run
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'', April 16, 2021.

References

External links

Personal website
, - {{DEFAULTSORT:Hans, Tobias Ministers-President of Saarland 1978 births Living people Christian Democratic Union of Germany politicians Members of the Landtag of Saarland