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.

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Tobias Hans
Tobias Hans
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
Incumbent
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
Incumbent
Assumed office 23 September 2009
Preceded by	multi-member district
Personal details
Born	(1978-02-01) 1 February 1978 (age 46) Neunkirchen, Saarland, West Germany
Political party	Christian Democratic Union
Website	www.tobias-hans.de

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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]

• Cultural Foundation of the German States (KdL), chairman of the council^[4]
• Deutsches Museum, ex officio member of the board of trustees^[5]
• RAG-Stiftung, ex officio member of the board of trustees (since 2018)

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]