Karl-Heinz Lambertz

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Karl-Heinz Lambertz

Karl-Heinz Lambertz (born June 4, 1952 in Schoppen , Amel municipality ) is a Belgian politician . He is a member of the Socialist Party (PS) and was Prime Minister of the German-speaking Community of Belgium from 1999 to 2014 . From 2016 to 2019 Lambertz was Senator of the German-speaking Community in the Belgian Senate. After he was Parliamentary President of the German-speaking Community of Belgium from 2014 to 2016, he has held this office again since June 17, 2019. He chaired the European Committee of the Regions from July 12, 2017 to February 12, 2020.

education and profession

Lambertz completed his law studies with a Belgian licentiate , and he also studied German law in Heidelberg . From 1976 to 1980 he worked as an assistant at the law faculty of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), from 1980 to 1981 as an advisor in the cabinet of the Belgian minister for institutional reforms and as deputy director of AG Aerotech . In 1981 he became an advisor to the regional investment company Société Régionale d'Investissement de Wallonie (SRIW); he held this position until 1990. From 1988 to 2010 he was a lecturer in German legal terminology at UCL.

Political career

From 1975 to 1980 he was President of the Council of German-speaking Youth, from 1975 to 1981 he was a member of the committee for the official German translation of laws and decrees. In 1981 he was elected member of the then Council of the German Cultural Community for the Parti Socialiste (PS) . Since then he has been a member of this body, which from 1984 to 2004 was called the Council of the German-speaking Community and has been called the Parliament of the German-speaking Community since 2004 . From 1981 to 1990 he was chairman of the socialist faction . From 1984 to 1990 he headed the German-speaking regional association (SP) within the PS. Since 1986 he has been a member of the party executive committee.

In 1990 he became a Minister in the Government of the German-speaking Community . In a coalition with the Christian Socialists (CSP) and the Liberals (PFF), he took over the business areas of media, adult education, disability policy, social assistance and vocational retraining . From 1995 (in a coalition only made up of Christian-Socialists and Socialists), his responsibilities included youth, training, media and social affairs . In addition, from 1995 to 1997 he was a member of the city council in Eupen , the capital of the DG. In 1999 he took over the office of Prime Minister of the DG at the head of a coalition of socialists, liberals and Greens (Ecolo) , and was also Minister for Employment, Disability Policy , Media and Sport . Since the 2004 election he has led a coalition of socialists, liberals and the party of German-speaking Belgians (PJU-PDB), since 2008 ProDG , within which he was also Minister for Local Authorities .

In July 2008, King Albert II commissioned Lambertz and the French-speaking politicians François-Xavier de Donnea ( MR ) and Raymond Langendries ( cdH ) to develop proposals for solutions to the political conflict between Flemings and Walloons .

Since 2000 member of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities at the Council of Europe (CLRAE - Chamber of Regions), he has been Vice-President there since October 2014.

Since 2001 he has been a member of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) of the European Union, mainly active in the Commission on Citizenship, Governance, Institutional Issues and External Relations (CIVEX) and the Commission on Social Policy, Education, Employment, Research and Culture (SEDEC ). From 2011 to 2015 he was Chairman of the PES Group in the CoR. After Lambertz was first Vice-President of the CoR from 2015 to July 2017, he held the chair from July 12, 2017 to February 12, 2020.

In the context of the serious government crisis in Belgium due to the Flemish-Walloon conflict since the parliamentary elections in June 2010, Lambertz theorized in the event of the failure of the Belgian state a. a. via an independent state of Wallonia with the involvement of DG, complete independence of the community, a return to Germany or a merger with Luxembourg.

Chronological overview of political activities and mandates

  • 1975–1980: President of the Council of German-Speaking Youth
  • 1975–1981: Member of the committee for the official German translation of laws and edicts
  • 1981–1990: Chairman of the SP parliamentary group in the Council of the German-speaking Community
  • 1981 – today: Member of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community
  • 1984–1990: President of the Socialist Party of the German-Language Territory of Belgium
  • 1990–1995: Community Minister for Media, Adult Education, Disability Policy, Social Assistance and Vocational Retraining
  • 1995–1997: City council member in Eupen
  • 1995–1999: Community Minister for Youth, Education, Media and Social Affairs
  • 1999–2004: Prime Minister, Minister for Employment, Disability Policy, Media and Sport
  • 1999 – today: Member of the Expert Committee on Culture, Education and Research (EDUC) and the Expert Committee for Economic and Social Policy (ECOS) of the Committee of the Regions of the EU
  • 2000-today: Member of the CLRAE
  • 2004–2014: Prime Minister, Minister for Local Authorities of the German-speaking Community
  • 2006–2010: General Rapporteur of the CLRAE for questions of cross-border cooperation
  • 2007–2010: Chairman of the working group for interregional cooperation at the KGRE (GT / CIR)
  • 2008–2010: Chairman of the Committee for Culture and Education at the CLRAE
  • 2009-present: Member of the Presidium of the Committee of the Regions of the EU
  • 2010–2012: Head of the Belgian delegation at CLRAE
  • 2010–2014: Chairman of the Governance Committee at CLRAE
  • 2010 – today: President of AEBR
  • 2011–2015: Chairman of the PES Group in the Committee of the Regions
  • 2012-present: Thematic Rapporteur on Interconstitutional Relations
  • 2013–2014: Chairman of the Euregio Meuse-Rhine (EMR)
  • 2014-present: Vice-President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities at the Council of Europe
  • 2014–2016: Chairman of the socialist parliamentary group of the CLRAE
  • 2014–2016: President of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community of Belgium
  • 2016–2019: Senator of the German-speaking Community of Belgium in the Belgian Senate
  • 2015–2017: First Vice-President of the Committee of the Regions of the EU
  • 2017–2020: President of the Committee of the Regions of the EU
  • 2019-present: President of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community of Belgium

Awards

Fonts

  • Belgium - the birth of a state. In: Fikret Adanir, Manfred Alexander, Peter Alter, Gerhard Brunn, Georg Brunner, Jonas Hauszmann, Andreas Kappeler, Ethnos-Nation - a European magazine. Cologne 1993, pp. 49-56.
  • Les autorités germanophones. In: Francis Delpérée, La Belgique Fédérale. Bruxelles 1994, pp. 161-169.
  • Les droits collectifs de protection des minorités et l'exemple de la Communauté germanophone de Belgique. In: Francis Delpérée, Laszlo Trocsanyi, L'Unité et la Diversité de l'Europe - Les Droits des Minorités: Les exemples belge et hongrois (Center d'Etudes constituitionelles et administratives - 25). Bruxelles 2003, pp. 125-131.
  • The German-speaking Community of Belgium - a laboratory for intercultural communication in Europe. In: Rüdiger H. Jung, Helmut M. Schäfer, Shaping Diversity - Managing Diversity: Cultural diversity as a challenge for society and organizations in Europe. Frankfurt a. M./London 2003, pp. 49-58.
  • Treatises - The Constitution of Belgium and its Institutions. In: Nordrhein-Westfälische Verwaltungsblätter - Journal for Public Law and Public Administration, 2003. pp. 329–333.
  • Interview with Karl-Heinz Lambertz. In: Frank Berge, Alexander Grasse, Belgium - Decay or Federal Future Model? - The Flemish-Walloon conflict and the German-speaking community. Opladen 2003, ISBN 3-8100-3486-X , pp. 271-279.
  • Stephan Förster, Karl-Heinz Lambertz, Leonhard Neycken: The German-speaking Community of Belgium - the smallest federal state in the European Union. In: European Center for Federalism Research Tübingen, Yearbook of Federalism 2004 - Federalism, Subsidiarity and Regions in Europe. Baden-Baden 2005, pp. 207-218.
  • Stephan Förster, Karl-Heinz Lambertz (Eds.): Small is beautiful, isn't it? - Challenges and perspectives of small (member) state units. Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-9806978-8-6
  • La Constitution Belge: Article 139 et 140. In: Marc Verdussen, La Constitution Belge (Lignes & Entrelignes), Brussels 2004, pp. 306-308.
  • Theses on the future of the Belgian state. In: Johannes Koll, National Movements in Belgium - A Historical Overview (Netherlands Studies - Volume 37). Münster 2005, pp. 179-188.
  • Three unique selling points of the German-speaking community. In: Katrin Stangherlin, La Communauté germanophone de Belgique - The German-speaking Community of Belgium. Bruges 2005, ISBN 2-87403-137-2 , pp. 8-13.
  • Introduction to the Belgian federal model. In: Anne Begenat-Neuschäfer. Belgium in focus - history - languages ​​- cultures. Frankfurt a. M. 2007, pp. 67-73.
  • Karl-Heinz Lambertz, Stephan Förster: The Committee of the Regions in 2006. In: Executive Board of the European Center for Research on Federalism in Tübingen, Yearbook of Federalism 2007 - Federalism, Subsidiarity and Regions in Europe. Baden-Baden 2008, pp. 567-573.
  • Transnational social interaction in the European Union and the added value of interregional cooperation in Europe using the example of the German-speaking Community of Belgium. In: Ulrich Hufelt, Peter-Christian Müller-Graff, Stefan Okruch, series of publications by the European Integration Working Group - Neighborhoods within the European Union. Baden-Baden 2007, pp. 247-250.
  • Karl-Heinz-Lambertz, Stephan Förster: Asymmetrical federalism in Belgium. In: Francesco Palermo, Rudolf Hrbek, Carolin Zwilling, Elisabeth Alber, On the way to asymmetrical federalism ?. Baden-Baden 2007, pp. 65-72.
  • The German-speaking Community. In: Anne Gamper, Christoph Pan, Ethnic Groups and Regional Self-Government in Europe (Volume 8). Baden-Baden 2008, pp. 125-132.
  • Karl-Heinz Lambertz, Martin Große Hüttmann (Hrsg.): European politics and European capabilities of regions. Baden-Baden 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-4717-0 .
  • A new boost for Europe from the regions? In: Sigrid Fretlöh, beyond the program debate and the European elections - contributions to the debate on European policy in social democracy. Berlin 2009, pp. 13-16.
  • Response from the German-speaking Community in Belgium: Winner of the 2009 Institutional Prize. In: Helmut Glück, Walter Krämer, Eberhard Schöck , Wolf Peter Klein, German Language Culture Prize 2009: Speeches and Reden. Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-931263-90-4 , pp. 28-34.
  • Karl-Heinz Lambertz, Stephan Förster: 25 years of the German-speaking Community of Belgium. Considerations from the perspective of federalism, minority and small (member) state research. In: Christoph Pan, Franz Matscher , Manfred Kittel, European Journal for Minority Issues, Vol. 2, No 3). Vienna 2009, pp. 103–118.
  • A quarter of a century German-speaking community. In: Exil-PEN, at home only in the word - an anthology of writers in exile in German-speaking countries. Ludwigsburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-937139-64-7 , pp. 196-201.
  • Karl-Heinz Lambertz (Ed.): The border regions as laboratory and engine of continental developments in Europe - reports and documents of the Council of Europe as well as speeches on cross-border cooperation in Europe. St. Gallen 2010, ISBN 978-3-03751-243-2 .
  • Karl-Heinz Lambertz, Joëlle Ramackers: The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe: Introduction and Outlook. In: European Center for Federalism Research Tübingen, Yearbook of Federalism 2010 - Federalism, Subsidiarity and Regions in Europe. Baden-Baden 2010, pp. 435-447.
  • Karl-Heinz Lambertz: Lessons from cross-border cooperation in Western Europe for cooperation in the border regions at the new EU internal borders after the eastward expansion. In: Harald Zschiedrich (Ed.), Economic Cooperation in Border Regions: Expectations - Conditions - Experiences. BWV.Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-8305-1867-9 , pp. 41-46.
  • Karl-Heinz Lambertz (Ed.), European Center for Research on Federalism Tübingen: Small is beautiful, isn't it? II - Contributions to small (member) states and minority research. Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-9810143-6-5 .
  • Karl-Heinz Lambertz: L'état de la coopération transfrontalière en Eurôpe. In: Birte Wassenberg, Joachim Beck, Living and Researching Cross-Border Cooperation (Volume 3): The European Dimension. Contributions from the research program on cross-border cooperation of the University of Strasbourg and the Euro-Institute. Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-515-09863-2 , pp. 59-66.
  • Karl-Heinz Lambertz: Effects of the financial and economic crisis on the economic and political status of regions in international comparison with special consideration of the situation in the Kingdom of Belgium In: Rudolf Hrbek, Peter Bußjäger, Occasional Papers (No. 38): Financial crisis, national debt and Federalism - Ways to Overcome Crises. Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-9810143-7-2 , pp. 7-11.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of coalitions according to parliament of the German-speaking Community: election results since 1974 ( memento of September 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), last accessed on July 22, 2008.
  2. ^ How Belgium's King Albert II saves Belgium , Welt Online, last accessed July 22, 2008.
  3. ↑ Congress of Local and Regional Authorities ( English ) Council of Europe. Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  4. ^ CoR - CoR President. Retrieved October 27, 2017 (American English).
  5. ↑ Video Belgium - 249 days without government  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on February 2, 2014. (offline)
  6. ↑ Exil-PEN: Honorary Members ( Memento of July 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), last accessed on July 22, 2008.
  7. ^ Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Prime Minister of the DG Karl-Heinz Lambertz - Greater Region - March 2010 . Granderegion.net. Archived from the original on April 11, 2016. Retrieved January 7, 2011.
  8. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Lambertz, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian politician, Prime Minister of the German-speaking Community of Belgium (DG), Speaker of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community of Belgium
DATE OF BIRTH June 4th 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Pint