Christoph Ploß | |
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Member of the
Bundestag for Hamburg-Nord | |
Assumed office 8 December 2021 | |
Member of the
Bundestag for Hamburg-Nord | |
In office 24 October 2017 – 8 December 2021 | |
Preceded by | Dirk Fischer |
Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union of Hamburg | |
In office 26 September 2020 – 3 April 2023 | |
Preceded by | Roland Heintze |
Succeeded by | Dennis Thering |
Personal details | |
Born | Hamburg, West Germany | 19 July 1985
Political party | Christian Democratic Union |
Alma mater | University of Hamburg |
Christoph Ploß (born 19 July 1985) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hamburg since 2017.
Ploß completed his abitur at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums in 2005. [1] From 2015 until 2017, he worked in media relations at Bauer Media Group.
Ploß became a member of the Bundestag after the 2017 German federal election. He is a member of the Committee on European Affairs and the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure. [2] [3]
In addition to his committee assignments, Ploß has been chairing the German Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with Arabic-Speaking States in the Middle East since 2022.
In 2020, Roland Heintze proposed Ploß as candidate to succeed him as chairman of the CDU in Hamburg; [4] at a party convention, Ploß was subsequently elected by a majority of 86 percent. [5] Ahead of the 2021 elections, Ploß was elected to lead the CDU campaign in Hamburg. [6]
Ploß stepped down as chairman in April 2023 and passed the chairmanship to Dennis Thering, who was elected by the party members with 185 out of 197 votes. 8 delegates voted against him, 4 abstained. [7] Ploß remains chairman of the regional group of the CDU in the Bundestag and chairman of the CDU Hamburg's regional association CDU Hamburg-Nord. [8]
In 2020, Ploß opposed plans to introduce a mandatory women quota within the CDU's regional and national governing bodies by 2025. [9] [10]
Ahead of the Christian Democrats' leadership election, Ploß publicly endorsed in 2020 Friedrich Merz to succeed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the party's chair. [11]