Alexander Throm | |
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.jpg) Throm in 2021 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Thomas Strobl |
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| Born | (1968-09-08)8 September 1968 (age 57) |
| Political party | CDU |
| Alma mater | University of Mannheim |
Alexander Throm (born 8 September 1968 inHeilbronn) is a German lawyer and politician of theChristian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of theBundestag (Germany's national parliament) from the state ofBaden-Württemberg, representing theHeilbronn electoral district, as a direct candidate since 2017. He was previously a member of theState Parliament of Baden-Württemberg from 2011 to 2016.
Throm attended the Silcherschule (elementary school) and the Justinus-Kerner-Gymnasium in Heilbronn and graduated from the Gustav-von-Schmoller-Schule in Heilbronn in 1988. He completed hislaw studies at theUniversity of Mannheim in 1993 with the First State Examination. His legal clerkship at Heilbronn District Court was followed by the Second State Examination in 1995. He then worked as an associate and later as a partner in a Heilbronn law firm. In 2001, he founded the law firm THSB -Throm, Hauser, Strobl, von Berlichingen - withThomas Strobl and several partners in Heilbronn. Throm is a specialist lawyer for construction and architectural law, employment law and commercial law.[1]
From2011 until 2016, Throm was a member of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, where he served on the Committee on Internal Affairs and the Committee on European Affairs.[citation needed]
On 19 November 2016, the CDU Heilbronn nominated him as a candidate for the2017 Bundestag election in theHeilbronn electoral district (267) as the successor toThomas Strobl.[2] In the election to the 19th German Bundestag, he won the direct mandate with 27.8 percent of the first votes and has been a member of the German Bundestag ever since.[3]
TheCDU/CSU parliamentary group sent Throm to the 19th Bundestag as a full member and group coordinator of the Committee on Internal Affairs and Community as well as a full member of the Committee on the Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure (since 2019). Alexander Throm was also a deputy member of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development, the Committee on Construction, Housing, Urban Development and Local Authorities and the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection. From 26 September 2019, until its conclusion, Throm was a full member of the 1st Committee of Inquiry of the 19th legislative period of the German Bundestag into the2016 Berlin truck attack on 19 December 2016.[4][5][6]
In the2021 Bundestag election, he was able to defend his direct mandate with 27.8 percent of the first votes.[7] In the 20th Bundestag, Alexander Throm is a full member of the Committee on Internal Affairs and Community, where he serves as the spokesperson for internal affairs and community of theCDU/CSU parliamentary group.[8][9]
In the negotiations to form aGrand Coalition between the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the BavarianCSU) under the leadership ofFriedrich Merz and theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) following the2025 German elections, Throm was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on domestic policy, legal affairs, migration and integration, led byGünter Krings,Andrea Lindholz andDirk Wiese.[10][11]
Ahead of the2021 national elections, Throm endorsedMarkus Söder as the Christian Democrats' joint candidate to succeedChancellorAngela Merkel.[14]
In August 2024, Throm supported a halt of asylum migration at German borders.[15]
Alexander Throm has been married since 1996 and has a son and a daughter. He lives with his family in Heilbronn.[16]
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