Carl Otto Lenz

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Candidate poster for the 1965 federal election
Hearing of the Legal Committee of the Bundestag Age of majority in the CDU / CSU parliamentary group hall (2nd from right: Member of the Bundestag Carl Otto Lenz), 1973

Carl Otto Lenz (born June 5, 1930 in Berlin ) is a German lawyer , CDU politician and former Advocate General at the European Court of Justice .

Life

Carl Otto Lenz was born as the son of the lawyer Dr. Otto Lenz (State Secretary of the Federal Chancellery 1951–1953, Member of the German Bundestag 1953–1957) and Mrs. Marieliese Pohl were born. The father had refused to become a judge under the National Socialists and had connections with the resistance groups of July 20, 1944 . In 1948 Carl Otto Lenz graduated from high school in Munich . From 1949 to 1953 he studied law and political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , the University of Freiburg im Üchtland and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In Freiburg im Breisgau he became a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Arminia Freiburg im Breisgau in CV . This was later followed by studies at Cornell University in Ithaca , New York , the University of Administrative Sciences Speyer and Harvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts) . In 1961 he was at the University of Bonn with the work on the advisory institutions of the American president on matters of general policy doctorate .

In 1959 he became Secretary General of the Christian Democratic Group in the European Parliament in Luxembourg ; from 1965 to 1984 he was a member of the German Bundestag . In 1965 he was elected to succeed Heinrich von Brentano, who died the previous year, directly in the Bergstrasse constituency, also in 1976 and 1983 . For many years he was a member of the Legal Committee, its chairman from 1969 to 1980. During the same period, he was a member of the mediation committee between the Bundestag and the Bundesrat. In 1983 he became chairman of the Bundestag European Commission. Since 1969 Lenz was a member of the Bundestag electoral committee for the election of judges of the Federal Constitutional Court .

Lenz was particularly committed to Franco-German friendship, was a member of the Franco-German parliamentary group and its chairman from 1969 to 1983, and coordinator for Franco-German cooperation from 1982 to 1984.

In addition to many other internal and extra-parliamentary offices, he was Advocate General at the European Court of Justice between 1984 and 1997 . During this time he has drafted around 400 Opinions for the Court of Justice of the EC. Among other things, the European Court of Justice followed him in the Bosman decision . In addition, Lenz is the editor of a manual and a commentary as well as the author of numerous papers, particularly on EC and EU law.

Since 1998 he has been working as a lawyer in Frankfurt am Main and Brussels . Since 2007 he has been chairman of the European Commission's Disciplinary Board.

Awards and honors

Fonts

  • "Europa der Vaterländer" - "Vaterland Europa" , in commitment to Europe , published by Fritz Burgbacher, Herder Verlag, Freiburg, 1963
  • The interaction of the European courts and the national jurisdiction. Workshop from October 21 to 23, 1988 in Bad Kreuznach , CF Müller Heidelberg 1989, ISBN 3811437895
  • Emergency Constitution of the Basic Law , Commentary, Athenaeum Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1971
  • Emergency Constitution of the Basic Law , Commentary, Cornelsen / Scriptor, Berlin 1991 (reprint), ISBN 358920365X
  • EC Handbook Law in the Internal Market (editor), Handbook, Verlag Neue Wirtschaftsbriefe, Herne / Berlin, 2nd edition 1994, ISBN 3482435529
  • EC Treaty (publisher), Commentary, Federal Gazette Cologne 1994, ISBN 3887845099
  • EC Treaty (editor), Commentary, Federal Gazette Cologne, 2nd edition 1999, ISBN 3887848942
  • EU and EC treaty (publisher together with Klaus-Dieter Borchardt), commentary, Federal Gazette Cologne, 3rd edition 2003, ISBN 3898172740
  • EU and EC treaty (publisher together with Klaus-Dieter Borchardt), commentary, Federal Gazette Cologne, 4th edition 2006, ISBN 9783898175067
  • EU treaties (published jointly with Klaus-Dieter Borchardt), commentary, Federal Gazette Cologne, 5th edition 2010, ISBN 9783898177023
  • EU Treaties (published jointly with Klaus-Dieter Borchardt), Commentary, Federal Gazette Cologne, 6th edition 2012, ISBN 9783846200070 , since then continuously updated as an online commentary, ISBN 9783898179614 (last in January 2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the politician and party friend. Darmstädter Echo (partly behind the payment barrier), February 24, 2014, accessed on June 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Lenz, Carl Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag and Advocate General at the European Court of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin