Curriculum Vitae
• Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg
• Promotion Dr. jur.
• Head of the office of the President of the Parliament of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg
• Practising lawyer since 2000
• Honoured with the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, March 2009
• Honoured with the Grand Cross of the Order for Merits to Lithuania, July 2011
• Awarded with the title of “Doctor Honoris Causa” from the Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius/Lithuania in November 2011
• Honoured with the “Order of Honour” of Georgia, March 2014
• Honoured with the “Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary”, May 2015
• Awarded with the title of “Professor Honoris Causa” from the Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius/Lithuania in September 2016
• Appointment as Knight of the French Legion of Honour in October 2016
• Founding of the Dr. Karl A. Lamers Peace Foundation in December 2018
• Founding of the Dr. Lamers Consulting
• Appointment as Honorary Consul of the Republic of Estonia for the state of Baden-Württemberg on October 26, 2021
GERMAN PARLIAMENT
• Member of the German Parliament from 1994 – 2021
• Member of the Defence Committee from 1994 – 2021
• Substitute member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs from 1998 – 2021
• Deputy Chairman of the Defence Committee from November 2006 – 2021
NATO PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY
• Member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA) from 1998 – 2022
• Vice-President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, 2006 – 2008
• President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, 2010 – 2012
• Vice-President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, 2012-2014
• Vice-President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, May – Nov. 2020
• Member of the Presidium of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly from November 2020 to March 2022
Honorary posts and memberships
• President of the Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA), 2008 – 2014
• Vice-President of the Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA), 2017 – 2020
• Vice-President of the German Atlantic Association 2009 – 2022
• Honorary Member of the German Atlantic Association since 2022
• President of the American-European Friendship Club Heidelberg, 2003 – 2014
• President of the Dr. Karl A. Lamers Peace Foundation
• Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Bassermann Cultural Foundation Mannheim
Honorary posts and memberships
Party Posts
• Chairman of the CDU Heidelberg, 1985 – 2003
• Member of Heidelberg City Council, 1987 – 1995
• Honorary Chairman of the CDU Heidelberg since 2003