Karl A. Lamers
Karl Alfred Lamers (born February 12, 1951 in Duisburg - Hamborn ) is a German politician ( CDU ). He has been Deputy Chairman of the Defense Committee of the German Bundestag since 2005 and was President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly from 2010 to 2012 .
Life and work
After graduating from high school in 1969, Lamers studied law at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , which he completed with the first state examination in law. In 1976 he was awarded a Dr. jur. is doing her doctorate with the thesis "Representation and integration of foreigners in the Federal Republic of Germany with special consideration of the right to vote - at the same time a comparative study of the local electoral law in the states of the European Communities" . After his legal clerkship , he also passed the second state examination and initially worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg . He later moved to the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg as a ministerial advisor , where he headed the personal office of the state parliament president . Lamers is admitted to the bar.
politics
Lamers came in 1975 in the Young Union on (JU) and the CDU and was from 1981 to 1986 deputy chairman of the JU in Baden-Wuerttemberg . From 1983 to 1989 he was also deputy chairman of the North Baden district association of the CDU's SME association . As chairman of the CDU district association in Heidelberg from 1985 to 2003, he was one of the early supporters of Christoph Ahlhaus , who later became the first mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . Lamers has been honorary chairman of the district association since 2003.
From 1987 to 1995 Lamers belonged to the council of the city of Heidelberg. He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1994 , where he was chairman of the subcommittee on the development of internal management from 2002 and has been deputy chairman of the defense committee since 2006 . He entered the Bundestag in 1998 and 2002 through the Baden-Württemberg state list and otherwise as a directly elected member of the Heidelberg constituency . In the 2013 federal election , he received 40.9 percent of the first votes .
Lamers has also been a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly since 1998 , where he is chairman of the Conservatives and Christian Democrats. From 2004 to 2008 he was Chairman of the NATO Partnerships Subcommittee . In 2010 Lamers was elected President of the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO in Warsaw and was replaced after two years by the Englishman Hugh Bayley . From 2006 to 2008 and from 2012 to 2012 he was also Vice-President of the Assembly and is now a member of the Presidium.
From 2008 to 2014 Lamers was also President of the Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA), the umbrella organization for all Atlantic societies worldwide. In the German Atlantic Society he holds the position of Vice President.
In March 2020, Lamers announced that he did not want to run again in the upcoming federal election .
Honors
- 2009: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2011: Grand Cross of the Order for Services to Lithuania
- 2011: Honorary doctorate from Mykolas Romer University , Vilnius
- 2014: Order of Honor of Georgia
- 2015: Central Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit
- 2016: Honorary professorship at the Mykolas-Romer University
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl A. Lamers in the catalog of the German National Library
- Karl A. Lamers website
- Biography at the German Bundestag
- CV at the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
- Karl A. Lamers on parliament watch.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Active promoters of Lithuania strengthen public confidence in the state , website of the President of the Republic of Lithuania, July 6, 2011, accessed on July 29, 2016.
- ↑ The man they called Chancellor when they were eleven . Hamburger Abendblatt , July 31, 2010
- ^ Members of the Defense Committee ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) bundestag.de , online, accessed on September 18, 2014
- ^ Official result of the 2013 federal election for constituency 274 - Heidelberg ( Memento from April 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Federal Returning Officer , 2013
- ^ Presidium of the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO ( Memento of January 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Official website of the NATO PA
- ↑ CDU politician Lamers no longer wants to go to the Bundestag. RNZ , March 7, 2020, accessed on the same day.
- ↑ Active promoters of Lithuania strengthen public confidence in the state . Press release from the President of the Republic of Lithuania
- ↑ Dr. Lamers awarded a high state order in Lithuania ( Memento from January 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Dr. Karl A. Lamers
- ↑ German Embassy in Vilnius: Awarding of an honorary doctorate from the Myklos Romeris University of Wilna to Dr. Karl Lamers, member of the German Bundestag ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Georgian Embassy Berlin Awarded the Order of Honor of the Republic of Georgia to Dr. Karl Lamers, member of the German Bundestag ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Member of the Bundestag, Dr. Karl A. Lamers received the Hungarian Order of Merit ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Lithuanian University awards Karl Lamers the title of honorary professor. In: Website rnz.de. September 2, 2016, accessed on May 16, 2019 (German).
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SURNAME | Lamers, Karl A. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lamers, Karl Alfred (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1951 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg - Hamborn |