| Christoph Ploß | |
| Office: | Member of the Bundestag for Hamburg-Nord |
| Term Start: | 8 December 2021 |
| Office1: | Member of the Bundestag for Hamburg-Nord |
| Term Start1: | 24 October 2017 |
| Term End1: | 8 December 2021 |
| Predecessor1: | Dirk Fischer |
| Office2: | Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union of Hamburg |
| Term Start2: | 26 September 2020 |
| Term End2: | 3 April 2023 |
| Predecessor2: | Roland Heintze |
| Successor2: | Dennis Thering |
| Birth Date: | 1985 7, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Hamburg, West Germany |
| Party: | Christian Democratic Union |
| Alma Mater: | University of Hamburg |
Christoph Ploß (born 19 July 1985) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hamburg since 2017.
Ploß completed his abitur at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums in 2005.[1] From 2015 until 2017, he worked in media relations at Bauer Media Group.
Ploß became a member of the Bundestag after the 2017 German federal election. He is a member of the Committee on European Affairs and the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure.[2] [3]
In addition to his committee assignments, Ploß has been chairing the German Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with Arabic-Speaking States in the Middle East since 2022.
In 2020, Roland Heintze proposed Ploß as candidate to succeed him as chairman of the CDU in Hamburg;[4] at a party convention, Ploß was subsequently elected by a majority of 86 percent.[5] Ahead of the 2021 elections, Ploß was elected to lead the CDU campaign in Hamburg.[6]
Ploß stepped down as chairman in April 2023 and passed the chairmanship to Dennis Thering, who was elected by the party members with 185 out of 197 votes. 8 delegates voted against him, 4 abstained.[7] Ploß remains chairman of the regional group of the CDU in the Bundestag and chairman of the CDU Hamburg's regional association CDU Hamburg-Nord.[8]
In 2020, Ploß opposed plans to introduce a mandatory women quota within the CDU's regional and national governing bodies by 2025.[9] [10]
Ahead of the Christian Democrats' leadership election, Ploß publicly endorsed in 2020 Friedrich Merz to succeed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the party's chair.[11]