Karl A. Lamers | |
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| Member of the German Parliament | |
| In office 1994–2021 | |
| President of theNATO Parliamentary Assembly | |
| In office 2010–2012 | |
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| Born | (1951-02-12)February 12, 1951 (age 74) Duisburg,West Germany |
| Political party | CDU |
| Education | University of Münster |
| Occupation | Politician |
Karl A. Lamers (born 12 February 1951, inDuisburg) is a German politician of theChristian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of theGerman Parliament from 1994 until 2021. From 2010 to 2012 he was the President of theNATO Parliamentary Assembly.
After completing hisAbitur in 1969, Lamers studied law at theUniversity of Münster. He passed hisFirst State Examination inMünster and obtained a doctorate in law in 1976, with a dissertation called "Representation and integration of foreign nationals in theFederal Republic of Germany with special regard tosuffrage – also a comparative study about local election rights in the member states of theEuropean Communities". Subsequently, he passed the Second State Examination and became aresearch associate at theMax Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law inHeidelberg. Later on he became a seniorBeamter at theLandtag of Baden-Württemberg, serving as the Head of the Office of the President of the Landtag. Karl A. Lamers is registered as practising lawyer in Heidelberg.
Lamers became a member of theChristian Democratic Union and its youth division, theJunge Union (JU), in 1975. From 1981 to 1986 he acted as deputy state chairman of the Junge UnionBaden-Württemberg under its State ChairmanGünther Oettinger, who later becameMinister-President of thestate of Baden-Württemberg and is currently serving asEuropean Commissioner for Energy. Since 2003, Lamers is honorary chairman of the CDU division of Heidelberg after being its chairman from 1985 to 2003 and a member of the Municipal Council of Heidelberg 1987 to 1995.
In 1994, Lamers got elected to theBundestag for the first time by directly winning theHeidelberg constituency. In 1998 and 2002 he won a seat through his placing on theCDU Party List of Baden-Würrtemberg in Germany'smixed member proportional representation voting system. Lamers directly won his constituency again in 2005 and 2009, receiving 36,1% of the votes in 2009.[1]
Lamers was elected Deputy Chairman of the Defence Committee of the Bundestag in 2005 and is still holding this office. He is a member of theNATO Parliamentary Assembly since 1998 and was elected its president inWarsaw on 16 November 2010.[2] Lamers also acted as President of theAtlantic Treaty Association from 2008 to 2014, succeedingRobert E. Hunter, who held the office from 2003 to 2008.
In March 2019, Lamers announced that he would not stand in the2021 federal elections and resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[3]
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