Roland Theis
Roland Theis (1980) is the General Secretary of the Christian Democrat Union in Saarland.
Education
After his studies in the field of law and politics in the University of Saarland and the Université d'Aix-Marseille III he gained his first law degree in 2005 and second in 2008. Later he worked as a lawyer in the German-French bank of Mittelstandsbank SaarLB.
Career
Theis is a scholarship holder from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and is currently working as a lecturer of constitutional and media law in the University of Saarland. He was the chairman of the Junge Union in Saarland from 2005–2010 and is still the vice chairman of the International Commission of the Junge Union in Germany. Theis is the alumnus of the Marshall Memorial Fellowship of the German Marshall Fond and the American Jewish Committee. He was a member of the city council of Ottweiler and the district council of Neunkirchen from 2004 until 2009. In his home town Ottweiler he is the chairman of the CDU association.
Politics
In 2009 Theis ran for Landtag as a member of CDU and was elected as a representative. He was elected as a General Secretary in November 2010, after the board had appointed him to the job already in November 2009. In the current legislative period Theis is the spokesman of his fraction 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.