Roland Theis | |
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| Member of theBundestag | |
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| Born | (1980-03-17)17 March 1980 |
| Political party | CDU |
Roland Theis (born March 17, 1980 inNeunkirchen) is a German politician of theChristian Democratic Union. Since 2017 he has been serving as State Secretary in the State Ministry of Justice inSaarland, in the government ofMinister-President Tobias Hans.
After his studies in the field of law and politics in theUniversity of Saarland and theUniversité d'Aix-Marseille III he gained his first law degree in 2005 and second in 2008. He is a scholarship holder from theKonrad Adenauer Foundation and is currently working as a lecturer of constitutional and media law in theUniversity of Saarland. Theis is the alumnus of theMarshall Memorial Fellowship of theGerman Marshall Fund and theAmerican Jewish Committee.
Following his studies, Theis worked as a lawyer atSaarLB.
Theis was the chairman of theJunge Union inSaarland from 2005–2010 and is still the vice chairman of the International Commission of theJunge Union inGermany.
Theis was a member of the city council ofOttweiler and the district council ofNeunkirchen from 2004 until 2009. In his home town Ottweiler he is the chairman of the local CDU association.
In the2009 state elections, Theis ran forLandtag as a member of CDU and was elected as a representative. He was elected as Secretary General of the CDU in Saarland in November 2010, after the board had appointed him to the position already in November 2009; in this capacity, he assisted chairwomanAnnegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. In the current legislative period Theis is his parliamentary group's spokesman in issues concerning judicial, media and economical politics.[1] In addition he is also the chairman of the committee of inquiry for Landtags elections of 2009.
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