Roland Theis

Theis 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 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 local CDU association.

In the 2009 state elections, Theis ran for Landtag 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 chairwoman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. In parliament, he was his parliamentary group's spokesman in issues concerning judicial, media and economic policy.^[1] In addition he is also the chairman of the committee of inquiry for Landtags elections of 2009.

After the CDU's lost its majority in the 2022 state elections, Theis was considered as contender to succeed Tobias Hans as the party's leader in Saarland but later withdrew from consideration.^[2]

In parliament, Theis has been serving on the Defence Committee, the Committee on European Affairs and the Subcommittee on the United Nations.^[3]

In addition to his committee assignments, Theis has been the chair of the German-French Parliamentary Friendship Group and a member of the German delegation to the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly.^[4]

• Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (IFA), Member of the General Meeting (since 2025)^[5]