The President

On October 6th, 2026, the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt elected Tobias Rausch (AfD) as its President. He has been already a Member of the State Parliament since 2016.

Tobias Rausch was born in 1990 in Mellrichstadt, located in the northernmost district of the Free State of Bavaria. He has been a member of the State Parliament (Landtag) since its 7th legislative term. Following his graduation from the secondary school in Förderstedt, Tobias Rausch completed training as an industrial mechanic by 2010, subsequently training as a real estate agent— a profession he began practicing in 2013. Since 2014, he has worked as an independent real estate entrepreneur and managing director. In 2014, he was a founding member of the AfD district association (Salzlandkreis); he has served on the Staßfurt City Council since 2014 and has been the parliamentary group leader in the Salzlandkreis District Council since 2019.
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The President of the State Parliament’s tasks

As “first among equals“ the President of the State Parliament takes a special position. He is elected from among the Members of Parliament and leads the sessions of the State Parliament and the parliamentary advisory committee. This means that he is responsible for the correct treatments of all parliamentary initiatives. He is the Parliament’s highest representative and the most senior politician of Saxony-Anhalt. In this function, he is obliged to write out the adopted laws. To write out, in this case, means, that he, as an independent body proves, if the law is based on the constitution.

During the first inaugural meeting of the new legislative period, the President of the State is elected. Traditionally, the strongest political fraction proposes one of her members as a candidate for the President of the State Parliament. If he is hindered, he has up to two vice presidents on his side, to take over his work, and also to support him during the State Parliament’s meetings and on the Parliament’s exterior representative activities.