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Carl Otto Lenz (born 5 June 1930) is a German lawyer, member of the GermanBundestag (1965–1984) for theCDU andAdvocate General at theEuropean Court of Justice (1984–1997).

Born inBerlin, Carl Otto Lenz is the son of the lawyer Otto Lenz (Secretary of the Federal Chancellery 1951–1953, member of the German Bundestag 1953–1957) and Marie Liese Pohl. In 1948, he graduated from high school inMunich. From 1949 to 1953, he studiedlaw andpolitical science at theLudwig-Maximilians University in Munich, theAlbert-Ludwigs University ofFreiburg, theUniversity of Geneva (Switzerland) and theUniversity of Bonn. In Freiburg, he was a member of the Catholic Student Fraternity KDSt.V. Arminia Freiburg im Breisgau im CV. Lenz later studied atCornell University in Ithaca, New York, theCollege of Administrative Sciences Speyer andHarvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts). From 1961, he taught at theUniversity of Bonn.

In 1959, he became Secretary of the Christian Democratic Group of theEuropean Parliament in Luxembourg; From 1965 to 1984 he was a member of the German Bundestag, representingBergstraße. For many years he was a member of the Legal Affairs Committee, and he was its chairman from 1969 to 1980.

Lenz is especially committed to Franco-German friendship; he was a member of the Franco-German Parliamentary Group and its chairman from 1969 to 1983.

From 1984 to 1997, Lenz wasAdvocate General at the European Court of Justice. During this time, he drafted about 400 submissions to the Court of Justice. Lenz is also editor of a handbook and the author of numerous works concerning EC law.

Since 1998, he has been a lawyer inFrankfurt andBrussels.

• 1976:Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany^{[citation needed]}
• 1980:Officer of the Legion of Honor
• 1983: Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit of the French Republic
• 1987: Bearer of the Hans-Dahs Medal of the German Bar Association
• 1990: Honorary Professor of the Department of European Law at the University of the Saarland
• 1998: Bearer of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

• List of members of the European Court of Justice

• Munzinger Biographies (1998-09-28)."Carl Otto Runge" (in German). Retrieved2011-04-02.
• Jean-Claude Alexandre Ho (2010-06-07)."Carl Otto Lenz zum Achtzigsten (On the occasion of C. O. Lenz' 80th birthday)" (in German).Legal Tribune Online. Retrieved2011-04-02.

• Media related toCarl Otto Lenz at Wikimedia Commons

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