Thomas von Sarnowski

Thomas von Sarnowski (born 1988 in Ebersberg) is a German politician who has been one of the two state chairmen of the Alliance 90/The Greens in Bavaria since 2021 alongside Eva Lettenbauer.

Studies and career Von Sarnowski holds a bachelor's degree in political science with Economics and master's degrees in International Political Economy from the University of Warwick and Political & Administrative Sciences from the University of Konstanz. From 2016 to 2017 he was office manager of the state parliament vice president Ulrike Gote. From 2017 to 2021 he was a research assistant to Dieter Janecek, MdB. From 2016 to 2021 he was also managing director of the Upper Bavaria district association of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. He has been a member of the state committee of the Bavarian Greens since 2019.

In the 2020 Bavarian local elections, he successfully ran for the district council in Ebersberg and has been a district councillor since May 1, 2020.

In 2021 he ran for the state presidency of the Bavarian Greens and was elected in the first ballot with a clear majority against his competitor. In seiner Bewerbungsrede stellte er vor allem die Themen Radverkehr, ÖPNV und den ländlichen Raum in den Mittelpunkt.