Karl Lamers
Karl Franz Lamers (born November 11, 1935 in Königswinter ) was a member of the German Bundestag from 1980 to 2002 . He was elected for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) on the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia .
Life
Lamers' father died in World War II. After attending elementary school and the Aloisius College in Bad Godesberg (Abitur 1958), Karl Lamers studied law and political science in Bonn and Cologne and passed the first state examination in law in 1964. From 1966 to 1980 he was head of the Karl Arnold Foundation , a political academy in Bonn-Bad Godesberg (today Königswinter).
In 1955 Lamers joined the CDU. From 1968 to 1971 he was state chairman of the Junge Union in the Rhineland. Since 1971 he was a member of the state executive committee of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia, from 1975 to 1981 as deputy state chairman. From 1986 to 2005 he was chairman of the Mittelrhein district association of the CDU.
From 1990 to 2002 Lamers was the foreign policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group and chairman of the foreign affairs committee . From 2000 to 2002 he was Vice President of the European People's Party (EPP).
Lamer's advocacy for a change of course in German politics in the 1970s earned him the nickname “Red Karl”.
Together with Wolfgang Schäuble , he wrote a concept paper on European policy, which attracted a lot of attention through the idea of what they called a “ core Europe ”. Lamers also represented this concept at the conference of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung on March 19, 2007 in Berlin, “Europe's Foreign and Security Policy in the 21st Century”, which was given as a birthday present for the SPD strategist Egon Bahr on this day celebrated 85th birthday.
In November 2006 he was elected chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia Foundation for Environment and Development at the proposal of the state government .
Lamers is a member of the non-partisan European Union Germany , which advocates a federal Europe and the European unification process.
Karl Lamers is married to the writer Monika Lamers and has one son.
Awards
- 1996: Great Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 2002: Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 479-480.
- Karl Lamers , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 26/2003 of June 16, 2003, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
- Biography at the German Bundestag
- Schäuble-Lamers paper (Bonn, September 1, 1994; PDF file; 71 kB)
- FES conference "Europe's foreign and security policy in the 21st century." (PDF file; 130 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 | Lamers, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lamers, Karl Franz (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigswinter |