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Alexander Throm

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Alexander Throm
Alexander Throm in 2021
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2017
Preceded byThomas Strobl
Personal details
Born (1968-09-08) 8 September 1968 (age 56)
Heilbronn, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partyCDU
Alma materUniversity of Mannheim

Alexander Throm (born 8 September 1968 in Heilbronn) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag (Germany's national Parliament) from the state of Baden-Württemberg, representing the Heilbronn electoral district, as a direct candidate since 2017. He was previously a member of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg from 2011 to 2016.

Education and career

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Throm attended the Silcherschule (elementary school) and the Justinus-Kerner-Gymnasium in Heilbronn and graduated from the Gustav-von-Schmoller-Schule in Heilbronn in 1988. He completed his law studies at the University of Mannheim in 1993 with the First State Examination. His legal clerkship at Heilbronn District Court was followed by the Second State Examination in 1995. He then worked as an associate and later as a partner in a Heilbronn law firm. In 2001, he founded the law firm THSB - Throm, Hauser, Strobl, von Berlichingen - with several partners in Heilbronn. Alexander Throm is a specialist lawyer for construction and architectural law, employment law and commercial law.[1]

Political career

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From 2011 until 2016, Throm was a member of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, where he served on the Committee on Internal Affairs and the Committee on European Affairs.

On November 19, 2016, the CDU Heilbronn nominated him as a candidate for the 2017 Bundestag election in the Heilbronn electoral district (267) as the successor to Thomas Strobl.[2] In the election to the 19th German Bundestag, he won the direct mandate with 27.8 percent of the first votes and has been a member of the German Bundestag ever since.[3]

The CDU/CSU parliamentary group sent Throm to the 19th Bundestag as a full member and group coordinator of the Committee on Internal Affairs and Community as well as a full member of the Committee on the Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure (since 2019). Alexander Throm was also a deputy member of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development, the Committee on Construction, Housing, Urban Development and Local Authorities and the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection. From September 26, 2019 until its conclusion, Throm was a full member of the 1st Committee of Inquiry of the 19th legislative period of the German Bundestag into the 2016 Berlin truck attack on December 19, 2016.[4][5][6]

In the 2021 Bundestag election, he was able to defend his direct mandate with 27.8 percent of the first votes.[7] In the 20th Bundestag, Alexander Throm is a full member of the Committee on Internal Affairs and Community, where he serves as the spokesperson for internal affairs and community of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.[8][9]

Other activities

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Political positions

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Ahead of the 2021 national elections, Throm endorsed Markus Söder as the Christian Democrats' joint candidate to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel.[12]

In August 2024, Throm supported a stop of asyl migration at German borders.[13]

Personal life

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Alexander Throm has been married since 1996 and has a son and a daughter. He lives with his family in Heilbronn.[14]

References

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  1. ^ "Anwälte - thsb-rechtsanwalt-heilbronn.de". www.thsb-rechtsanwalt-heilbronn.de. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  2. ^ "CDU Heilbronn nominiert Alexander Throm für Bundestagswahl - STIMME.de". www.stimme.de (in German). 19 November 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  3. ^ "Heilbronn: Throm gewinnt, Juratovic trotzdem im Parlament - STIMME.de". www.stimme.de (in German). 24 September 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  4. ^ "Terror Breitscheidplatz Berlin: "Unglückliche Kommunikation"". www.t-online.de (in German). 19 December 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  5. ^ "Deutscher Bundestag - Alexander Throm". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  6. ^ "Alexander Throm - Pressemitteilung". 2 February 2018. Archived from the original on 2 February 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  7. ^ "Gewählte in Landeslisten der Parteien in Baden-Württemberg - Die Bundeswahlleiterin". www.bundeswahlleiterin.de. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  8. ^ "German Bundestag - Committee on Internal Affairs and Community". German Bundestag. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  9. ^ "Unionsfraktion gibt Thorsten Frei neuen Schlüsselposten - STIMME.de". www.stimme.de (in German). 14 December 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  10. ^ "SessionNet | Verwaltungsrat der Kreissparkasse Heilbronn". heilbronn-sitzungsdienst.komm.one. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  11. ^ "Heilbronner Alexander Throm ist neuer Präsident der THW-Landesvereinigung - STIMME.de". www.stimme.de (in German). 14 December 2023. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  12. ^ Norbert Wallet (April 6, 2021), Kanzlerkandidatur der Union: Rückenwind aus Baden-Württemberg für Markus Söder Stuttgarter Zeitung.
  13. ^ Cducsu.de: Die Asylzahlen sind weiterhin viel zu hoch, August 2024
  14. ^ MdB, Alexander Throm. "Alexander Throm MdB". Alexander Throm MdB (in German). Retrieved 23 April 2024.
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