Lawyer/Tax law specialist
Born in Bad Salzungen on 23 May 1976; Roman Catholic; married; three children

Career

1994
School-leaving examination, Staatliches Gymnasium Bad Salzungen (public secondary school)

1995 to 2001
Studied law at Friedrich Schiller University Jena

1999 to 2001
Employee of two members of the State Parliament of Thuringia

2001 to 2003
Practical legal training

Since 2004
Lawyer at Muth & Partner

Since 2008
Member of the German Bundestag

March 2018 to February 2020
Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, Federal Government Commissioner for the New Federal States, Commissioner for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

1995
Joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU)

2010 to 2020
Chairman of the Wartburgkreis district branch of the CDU

2014 to 2020
Deputy Federal State Chairman of the CDU in Thuringia

2020 to 2022
Federal State Chairman of the CDU in Thuringia

Since 2022
Another term as Deputy Federal State Chairman of the CDU in Thuringia

Since 2025
Parliamentary State Secretary