Thomas Kranig

Thomas Kranig (* 1954 in Munich ) is a German lawyer and was President of the Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision from 2011 to January 31, 2020 .

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After studying law in Munich and Würzburg and completing his legal traineeship in Munich, he began his professional activity as an administrative lawyer in the service of the Free State of Bavaria at the Autobahn Directorate South Bavaria in Munich. From 1985 to 1992 he worked as a legal civil servant at the Aschaffenburg district office, where he initially headed the “Public Safety and Order” department until 1988 and then the construction department.

From 1992 to 1995 he was the managing director of a media company in the private sector. From 1995 to 1997 Thomas Kranig was responsible for planning approvals as a consultant in the field of road law.

In 1997 he was appointed judge at the Ansbach Administrative Court, where he was the court's press spokesman for seven years and stayed there until 2010. During this time, he studied at the law faculty of the FernUniversität Hagen and completed this training the Master of Mediation. After completing his studies, Thomas Kranig also worked as a court mediator at the Ansbach Administrative Court.

In 2011 Thomas Kranig was appointed the first President of the Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision . By resolution of the Bavarian State Government, Kranig was entrusted with the management of this Bavarian State Office for another term on July 26, 2016. His second term of office began on August 3, 2016 and ended on January 31, 2020 due to the fact that Kranig had reached the age limit. Since February 1, 2020, Kranig's successor as President of the Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision has been Michael Will .

In 2018, as President of the Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision, Thomas Kranig received the GDD data protection award for “making the new law understandable” from the General Data Protection Regulation and the new Federal Data Protection Act.

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1. ↑ https://www.gdd.de/aktuelles/startseite/verleihung-des-gdd-datenschutzpreises-2018 Accessed on January 16, 2019.