Overview

• The 35-year-old Landtag member from Swabia won roughly 88% of ballots at the JU state convention in Aschaffenburg.
• He named preparation for the March municipal elections, generational fairness, and opposition to new state debt as top priorities.
• Internal accounts cast his selection as a compromise after an initial field of four contenders for the post.
• He will head a staffed JU office and press the youth wing’s concerns within the CSU’s parliamentary group in the state legislature.
• His two-year term begins as he succeeds Christian Doleschal after six years in the role, and he emphasized rejecting extremism, including a pointed critique of the AfD.